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Environmentally-focused student reels in internship with Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

College of Arts and Sciences

… in high school through a dual enrollment partnership between Kalamazoo Christian High School and WMU. As her … focus more on the environment and sustainability.  “I’ve always been big on the outdoors; I always go to lots of … 14,” she says. “She emailed me about this class and set me up here with a lot of professors that I could talk to.”  …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/07/75928

NeoVent duo wins innovation prize sponsored by U.S. Patent Office

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… earned five national innovation prizes, is a respiratory support mechanism designed to treat critically ill infants, particularly those … $10,000 Brian Patrick Thomas Award | July 3, 2015 Student-designed neonatal ventilator wins two more prestigious awards …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28697

WMU grad student's poetry book published, wins big award

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… impetus for the collection. Her book examines some of the ways people construct or reconstruct their individual … to apply that to the mythos of my family by rewriting significant births (including my own) and deaths," Rocha … full time," she says. "But those jobs are few and far between. I'm still going to apply and hope for the best." …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/09/26664

WMU's 'living, learning laboratory' models sustainability

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… Much of the fledgling forest was last year the unpaved driveway to a soccer field, and thus largely hardpan, stony, not … nut- and fruit-producing plants that mimic the interactions between species that you see in a normal forest," says Josh … both in production and disposal. We're trying to not support things like that," Shultz explains. "So we're …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28342

Global firm to open North American headquarters at BTR Park

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… Florence. The company is a division of FAiST Industrial Group, a multinational manufacturing firm based in the United … bring client engineering teams into the development and design process for products FAiST will ultimately produce. … customized, on-site training so the engineering team has a better idea of the process to apply. Working together, we …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/23569

Evaluation students finish as runner-ups in national case competition

College of Education and Human Development

… Evaluation students finish as runner-ups in national case competition Submitted by Chris Hybels … and problem-solving skills. The program is, therefore, designed to develop and nurture evaluation thought leaders who have superior skills in designing, conducting, reporting and critiquing evaluations. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/09/72807

Engineering prof wins NIH grant for research on heart disease

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… So what we're trying to do is understand the biological pathways of this process." Surprising discovery But Springstead … arteries with a fragment of the lipid to test inflammatory signaling. But instead of upregulating inflammatory … off with engineering and medicine with a nice bridge between them, I think we can have something really special …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22649

WMU wins NSF grant to study contaminants in industry, agriculture

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… "So it's important to monitor them and devise ways of reducing their concentration and also eliminate them … chloride and other chlorides on the roads and these end up in our bodies of water," Mezei says. "And then there are … project will try to answer that question and help in designing even more effective and selective anion extraction …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18390

WMU engineer receives ADVANCE proof of concept grant

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… Development Corporation. The state awards grants of up to $40,000, and each grant must be matched dollar for … methodology will lower the expense of providing designers with material properties over the lifecycle of … Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. During the ADVANCE grant program's …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47498

Free campus workshops offered on virtual reality

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… applications available. Software tutorials are also suggested. Friday, April 13, noon to 1:30 pm Monday, April 16, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45777