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WMU trustees to elect officers for 2020 Thursday

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… WMU trustees to elect officers for 2020 Thursday Submitted by Deanne Puca on … on a Portage property for the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine as well as a purchase agreement with Kalamazoo Public Schools to acquire WKDS 89.9 FM on behalf of WMUK. The full …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/01/57612

Researchers discover role Saharan dust plays in hurricane rainfall

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… on July 13, 2013, by satellite shows a dust storm blowing off the coast of Africa. (Image courtesy: NASA Earth Observatory) … Zhu , associate professor in Western Michigan University's  School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability , …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/08/researchers-discover-role-saharan-dust-plays-hurricane-rainfall

Life cycle and social impact assessment expert to speak at WMU

Sustainability

… methods to account for the positive effects of individual and corporate sustainability efforts—and not … Dr. Gregory Norris , of Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will speak on "NetPositive … for NetPositive Enterprise, or SHINE, at Harvard's School of Public Health. He goes beyond traditional …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45259

Annual Bee to bring young geography whizzes to campus

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… by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO—About 100 middle-school geography whizzes will gather Friday, April 5 , at … Geographic Bee. Participants will test their knowledge of the world and complete to win a trip to Washington, D.C. … of Columbia, U.S. territories and Department of Defense schools around the globe. Some 100 fourth- to eighth-graders …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6134

Generous gift expands University art collection

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… art collection Submitted by Erin Flynn on More than 200 of John Kollig's paintings and drawings are now part of the … former instructor and advisor in the University's Frostic School of Art. "I'm just so surprised to see some of it. It … we really need to document," says Opolka. She gained valuable gallery experience as a student in early 2020, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/02/63282

Dorene Lois Scheffers obituary

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… staff member, died April 17 . She was 77. Scheffers, of Kalamazoo, joined the WMU staff in 1984 and retired in 1998 after 14 years of service to the University. She was a receptionist, most … held. Memorial gifts may be made to the Kalamazoo Christian School Association, Centerpoint Church or Heritage Christian …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32276

BIORETS program gives local science teachers authentic research experience

College of Arts and Sciences

… create a research experience program for middle and high school science teachers, known as BIORETS: biology of plants, animals, microorganisms and their environments . … an eighth grade science teacher at Cassopolis Middle School, spent her days in the program researching the impact …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69141

Humanities speaker series focuses on education in the 21st century

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… Edmundson KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The sometimes precarious state of education will be explored in detail when the University … increased scrutiny to produce quantifiable results, public school teachers and university professors struggle to define … of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information and a fellow the of the Dalai Lama …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42622

Brown University professor to kick off Ethics Center fall 2017 season

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… Brown University professor to kick off Ethics Center fall 2017 season Submitted … of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, … 14 , at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, located at 300 Portage St. His talk is …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42292

Physical therapy instructor creates scholarship to give marching band students a boost

College of Health and Human Services

… roots.  “The marching band added a great deal to my high school experience,” says Weir, an assistant professor of physical therapy at Western Michigan University … the Berrien Community Foundation to a Berrien County high school graduate who joins a college marching band. The goal …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60421