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New LEED building certifications boost WMU total to seven
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… to use the resources entrusted to us in the most effective ways possible." The six newly certified buildings join the College of Health and Human Services, which earned a LEED-EB gold designation in 2009. … green design features, including integration into WMU's award-winning stormwater retention system. Also, both Brown …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/02/4731
Visiting expert to offer insights into creating culture of sustainability
Sustainability
… located at the corner of West Michigan Avenue and South Howard Street, between 2 and 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7. … in the Office for Sustainability, at West Michigan and Howard, and will help launch a new Sustainability Across … Fine Arts, College of Aviation, College of Health and Human Services, Haworth College of Business, College of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/01/4277
Annual food marketing conference features industry leaders
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… conference features industry leaders Submitted by Cindy Wagner on Lempert KALAMAZOO—NBC's "Today" show supermarket … operations, Meijer Tom Zatina, president, McLane Food Service Jane Novak-Cook, vice president, customer business … leaders slated to speak at the conference include Erik Wahl, artist and motivational speaker, and Todd Harbaugh, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5472
Community college pact extends WMU presence in metro Detroit
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… in metro Detroit Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wayne County Community College District's University Center … agreement between Western Michigan University and Wayne County Community College District will expand WMU's … serve some 2.3 million people who live within the college's service district. WCCCD's University Center in Harper Woods …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/02/4686
Spring recess hours for selected campus services
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… Spring recess hours for selected campus services Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Spring semester recess KALAMAZOO--Many campus services at Western Michigan University will be on reduced … Clinics will maintain normal hours throughout the recess. Waldo Library is open reduced hours, 8 a.m. to midnight …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/02/170
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity commemorates 50 years at WMU
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… mywmu.com/apa50 . Commemorative play : Also on Friday, Von Washington’s play, “Gathering,” will premier at the D. Terry … Blakley, foreign desk producer for National Public Radio in Washington D.C., Brown Hall's third-floor Humanities … of Global Automative Alliance, 4010 Health and Human Services Building, 10:30 a.m. Frank Ligon, owner of Ligon …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/09/1826
Administrator gets national award for work with homeless students
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… Administrator gets national award for work with homeless students Submitted by Anonymous … WMU's Seita Scholars program for former foster care youth, was awarded the 2012 Distinguished Service and Leadership Award by the National Association for …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/11/2894
First of community input sessions for East Hall renovation set
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… the Little Theatre and across Oakland Drive and adjacent to Walwood Hall in WMU Parking Lot No. 1. Preliminary design … design process. Additional sessions will be scheduled midway through the process, likely in December, and at the end … for modern building utility, accessibility and service features Possible garden, plaza and green space …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/08/9035
President Montgomery inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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… by Paula M. Davis on CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- WMU President Edward Montgomery was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences … education and at the highest levels of federal government service. As an economist, he held positions in the Clinton …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/10/55952
Western expert: Pandemic sparked a 'she-cession,' disproportionately forcing women out of the workforce
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… of women." A major driving force is the decimation of the service industry, which shed hundreds of thousands of jobs … August 2020. "The COVID-19 crisis is, at its core, a low-wage worker crisis right now, because the unemployment rate is so much higher for low-wage workers," Kimmel says. "Women are represented more in …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63542