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Pipeline program expanded to increase health care workforce diversity

College of Health and Human Services

… care and increasing diversity in health care professions is expanding. Building on the success of its inaugural year … Valley State University. The seven-week mentorship program is focused on health career exploration, college readiness … experiences working toward those careers. Dr. TaLawnda Bragg, internal medicine hospitalist at Spectrum Health, speaks …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/02/66994

Food, entertainment highlights of Kalamazoo Ribfest

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… of Kalamazoo Ribfest Submitted by Deanne Puca on Admission is free before 4 p.m. each day of the festival. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Kalamazoo's annual Ribfest is a three-day event at the Arcadia Creek Festival Place in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/07/33571

Finding an open door: Jordan Chopp’s ambition towards education

Haworth College of Business

… in human resource management. When Chopp originally began his college career, the time wasn’t right, and he made the decision to leave to work full-time. Years later, after meeting his wife who was a student at Western Michigan University, he …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/12/70178

Immersive program aims to empower next generation of science teachers

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… a container to collect samples while other students from his cohort wade in the Kalamazoo River. Students collect … Salome, right, helps tie a rope around Cora Paul's waist. Lauri Davis, left, talks with Jovaughn Carver about his … from nearby ponds. Both campers and teachers excitedly logged the various macroinvertebrates—such as fly larvae and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/07/64891

Tony Award-winning drama 'The Crucible' holds six performances

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… Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" in response to the communist panic of the 1950s—McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Modern forms of rumor, persecution, … fear are reflected in its telling today. 'The Crucible' This Tony Award-winning drama is both a gripping, historical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43300

English, Theatre departments establish new regional play festival

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… English, Theatre departments establish new regional play festival Submitted by Anonymous (not … developing and producing the plays of emerging theatre artists. The inaugural Activate: Midwest New Play Festival is

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24528

Navy veteran and four-time CAS alum built a career by probing the link between humans and their machines

College of Arts and Sciences

… Michigan University graduate, transferred to Western in his junior year because, unlike other schools he had … so influenced by Western that he went on to get not only his bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology in 1989, … psychology, 1990, and philosophy, 1993), as well as his Ph.D. (experimental psychology, 1993) at WMU.  It was …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69145

Summer enrollment open for Campus Kids

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… feature a different theme with special-interest topics. It is open to children who have completed kindergarten, up to … up by the week or for the entire summer. Enrollment is limited, so those interested are urged to register early … $45 for registration and $207 per child per week or hourly rates for WMU students of $5.65 and for WMU staff and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45659

Social entrepreneur and WMU alumnus to speak at next breakfast event

Haworth College of Business

… University's Haworth College of Business. Patrick Mixis , founder of Feed the World Café, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, April 14, in 2150 Schneider Hall. The event is free and open to the public and begins with breakfast at … (269) 387-6059 or visit wmich.edu/business/e-rsvp . To suggest an entrepreneur for the series, contact Alyssa Benson …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/04/39103

WMU grad programs ranked among nation's best by U.S. News

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… on WMU's Kalamazoo-based occupational therapy program is ranked at No. 32 nationally, making it the state's highest ranking program in that discipline. KALAMAZOO, Mich.— The latest annual U.S. News & … with eight programs ranked among the top 100 in their disciplines, four in the top 50 and two programs assessed as …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38794