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Breaking it Down and Building it Up – Broderick Bebout Aims for A Career in Aviation Maintenance

College of Aviation

… Breaking it Down and Building it Up – Broderick Bebout Aims for A Career … WMU Aviation Technical Operations student Broderick Bebout working on a WMU Technical Operations aircraft One of the … hierarchy.   Overarching his career-preparation growth is "how working in aviation has been instrumental in navigating …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/12/broderick

Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo

College of Aviation

… both have a Bronco connection. As you may expect, chemistry doesn’t just happen in the lab at WMU, many times it happens … watching the precision flying of the Blue Angels at an air show in Muskegon.  It became a career choice as a junior when … in the Detroit Metro area.  “I knew that I never wanted to work a desk job,” he says.  “I was torn between becoming a …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/01/apogee

Alumnus Gang Chen is making strides in AI and machine learning

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… by Lindsey Haehnel on Gang Chen  (background created using Adobe Photoshop generative AI) Western Michigan University … a principal engineering manager at Microsoft, Chen now works as a senior manager in Amazon’s Artificial General … of a particular one.” What are the top trends in AI and how will they impact organizations? Chen: AI will impact …

https://wmich.edu/engineer/news/2024/11/gang-chen-making-strides-ai-machine-learning

Report details progress to date in strategic plan's 3rd year

News

… that efforts to achieve them have begun across the campus. Work will continue through the end of the fiscal year on the … Transition work begun Efforts also are underway to plan how the University will transition from its inaugural, … updated five-year plan. A key part of that work will be to do a targeted analysis of WMU's strategic plan management …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22574

Three WMU food marketing students awarded scholarships

Haworth College of Business

… but also affirms the effort they have put into their coursework and pursuing their professional goals.  GMR scholarship … these students. “I’m so proud of these three students and how they represent our food marketing program at WMU. They … as a brand management intern and currently works at WK Kellogg Co as a wholesale account analyst. She will be joining …

https://wmich.edu/business/news/2025/04/gmr-scholarships2025-knoll-raches-wallace

Undergraduate, faculty research published in Biochemistry

College of Arts and Sciences

… Stull , expands on the Stull research group’s prior work, which focused on investigating fundamental chemistry … after contacting Stull, inquiring about the opportunity to do research in his lab. Stull, having just received a grant … students.” The students worked with Stull to determine how a nicotine degrading enzyme (called NicA2), which …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73679

'This is not a simulation'—pandemic becomes real-life learning opportunity

Haworth College of Business

… Submitted by Stacey Anderson on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—When Dr. Doug Lepisto , assistant professor of management, and Dr. … are facing. Dr. Derrick McIver, left, and Dr. Doug Lepisto work from their home offices. There are many unknowns when … are distilled into the best solution for a business. However, Lepisto and McIver could never have anticipated …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/03/58722

Professor, institute director Perryman-Clark leads national convention

College of Arts and Sciences

… attendees were asked to consider the implications of work with diversity, equity and inclusion in relation to … call for proposals asked, “As a discipline, how do we remain relevant? How do we use the work that we have …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/03/67526

Theatre student gives back to hometown with youth summer program

News

… Beast." BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—College student juggles course work, auditions, a recording career and running a youth … a successful production of "Beauty and the Beast" with dozens of burgeoning performing artists. Austin is entering … a set and everything that it takes to put our entire show together," Austin says. "It's a lot of work, but it's a …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/08/jack-austin-youth-theatre-summer-program

Championing diversity and innovation

College of Arts and Sciences

… its internationally-renowned annual Consumer Electronics Show, which welcomes innovators from around the world. Her … WMU was fueled by the commitment to education of her hard-working single parent. "There was no question about it - I … advising Upton on a range of policy matters. Foreshadowing a future in technology, she also launched the …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/news/2025/05/cas-magazine-moore