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

College of Aviation

… Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo … meeting through one of Josh’s teammates, they reconnected after graduating and knew instantly they were going to get … offers flight training, aircraft management, and pilot services for customers throughout metro Detroit.  It’s the …

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

Learning and Leading: Global Leaders use their skills to help refugees

W Magazine

… Dykstra, left, and Haley Ritsema explored the desert in Wadi Rum, Jordan, during their study abroad experience with … student organization focused on leadership through service. The group spent the summer volunteering in and … share his passion for helping refugees with other students. After Fernandez, King and Weller established partnerships …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/01/57378

Propellors, Powerplants, and Passion: Mason Mihelich’s Pursues a Career in Aviation Maintenance

College of Aviation

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/04/mihelich-0

Propellers, Power-plants, and Passion: Mason Mihelich Pursues a Career in Aviation Maintenance

College of Aviation

… Taking a trip up into the clouds as a senior in high school was more than just a joy ride for Mason Mihelich.  It … at South Haven.  All of this "right fit" registered on him after a tour of the Kalamazoo campus allowed him to … radar is a fleet-maintenance job with United Parcel Service (UPS) Worldwide.  But if competitors such as the U. …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/04/mihelich

Ethics Center announces fall 2022 book clubs

Study of Ethics in Society

… providers using informal evidence, as opposed to scientific evidence, to guide their decisions about medical … Indigenous peoples, Zionism, the events of 1948, the 1967 war, Camp David and the Oslo accords, and a two-state … the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society was created after WMU faculty across the curriculum met to discuss their …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69336

First Year Fun and Medallion Scholarship Success: Makenzie Russell Ascends at WMU Aviation

College of Aviation

… WMU College of Aviation , she is an avid hockey player and was awarded Western's prestigious Medallion Scholarship for … the Medallion selectors.  But so did her community-service "chops."  "I was heavily involved in the … Park District as a lifeguard, swim instructor and an after-school program for elementary-aged children," Russell …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2023/10/russell

WMU food marketing students get cutting-edge AI industry tool through six-figure gift

Haworth College of Business

… and Western’s food marketing program, led by Dr. Russell Zwanka, will be the first academic program in the nation to … between Intent Ai co-founder and CEO Dr. Brian Harris and Zwanka. Complementary to the partnership, Intent Ai and WMU … graduates are working or continuing their education quickly after earning their degree. 100% of food marketing graduates …

https://wmich.edu/business/news/2026/07/food-marketing-ai-tool

Investment, pandemic pivot spur success for genomics company

News

… cases began surging in the spring of 2020. "We really wanted to help in whatever way we could," says Mike Getz , … officer of Genemarkers. She launched the company in 2007 after working as a genomics consultant for Pfizer and an … of COVID-19, Langerveld says. "The way you interact as a service with doctors and doctors' offices had been changing …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/05/64148

Eric Epplett's Enlightened Aviation Adventure

College of Aviation

… Aviation Adventure Submitted by Tom Thinnes on If you want an out-of-the-box thinker, then Eric Epplett is your … College of Aviation's recruitment and outreach team right after his first degree was hanging on the wall. Request WMU … of virtually anything -- as well as on-demand charter service -- across the United States and around the world. …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2020/03/epplett

From Saabs to Delta – Steve Denomme Surfs the Turbulence to Success

College of Aviation

… because of the Covid pandemic, and like the rest of us -- was staggered under the ramifications of the "Ugly" -- the … about Steve Denomme?  Denomme earning his new Captain Wings after his upgrade with Regional Director Mike Perrin At the … in June of 2003 when Mesaba called him back for Saab 340 service, but for the next two-plus years Denomme kept his …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2022/11/denomme