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National scholar to keynote annual Chavez Scholarship fundraiser

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… KALAMAZOO—Southwest Michigan will celebrate the life and work of civil rights leader César E. Chávez this month … Wednesday, March 20, but tickets will also be sold at the door. This is the seventh year that WMU's Division of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5807

Scholar tackles education, health in developing nations

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… the public. Dr. Seema Jayachandran Jayachandran earned her doctoral degree in economics from Harvard University; a … of topics in development economics. Much of her recent work focuses on maternal and child health in Africa and … Centre and Innovations for Poverty Action. She previously worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5570

2013 Frostic Reading Series begins with 'Second Coming'

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… University. Peter Orner will read from his collected works at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in 208-210 Bernhard … Lives." Orner has been awarded numerous prizes for his work. He has won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of … and Letters, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes. Orner lives in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/08/8999

Award-winning poet, novelist on deck in Frostic Reading Series

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… Critics Choice award. Hailed as a "virtuosic one-woman show" by Time Out New York, "Revolution" tells the humorous … which was winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, the New York Times, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10543

'The Gift: The Print Portfolios of Exit Art' now on display

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… organization in New York City, presented artists whose work challenged notions of race, ethnicity, gender, … pressing issues of its time while supporting artists whose works reflected the transformations of our culture. By 2012, … and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. For more information , contact Don Desmett at @email or (269) 387-2455. Contact: Cara …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11050

Acclaimed cellist performs at WMU

Irving S. Gilmore School of Music

… Matt Haimovitz Haimovitz is acclaimed for his tremendous artistry and for being a musical visionary—pushing the … career encompasses more than 20 years of award-winning work on Deutche Grammophon and his own Oxingale Records. His … program will explore a wide variety of genres featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gyorgy Ligeti, Tod Machover …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/09/9295

Campus MLK Day efforts recognized by national diversity magazine

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… where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being accomplished every day across their campus." The … Plan that has guided University efforts since it was adopted in 2006. For more WMU news, arts and events , visit …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/11/50211

Trustees to consider lease for brewpub in new student center at Thursday meeting

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… wine. Portage Brewing also plans to offer opportunities to showcase the work of students in Western’s sustainable brewing program as …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66109

Public health program establishes awards to aid students

School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs

… public health," says  Dr. Robert Bensley . " She comes from Dowagiac, has a passion for helping those in her community and showed us over the past four years her ability to grow and … could not have made any impact at all." Carillo’s graduate work over the next two and a half years will be …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/63872

Alumni featured in last Frostic Reading event of the fall

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… Dan Mancilla and Ephraim Scott Sommers will read from their works at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12 , in 157-159 Bernhard … and the novella, "The Deathmask of El Gaucho." He earned a doctoral degree from WMU and is an adjunct professor of … TriQuarterly, Verse Daily and elsewhere. Sommers earned his doctoral degree from WMU and is currently an assistant …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/44076