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Carls Foundation awards $314,400 to help children hear
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… has given $314,400 to Western Michigan University to support programs designed to help older children with hearing problems. The gift will continue support for infants identified with hearing loss as newborns … will: Provide funding for client scholarships to support ongoing early diagnosis and intervention services. This would …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/08/1243
Haworth College of Business alumni recognition program wins award
Haworth College of Business
… 30 program has received the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Gold Award for Best New Alumni Program. The awards program … awards will be presented at the CASE V Conference in Chicago in mid-December. Experts from disciplines outside of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/12/57002
Native seed project helps WMU get back to its roots
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… sustainability efforts. "Since I've been here, I've opened up the greenhouse to members of the Landscape Services staff … and fall kale seen around campus. Overall, he says, it supplies hundreds of these non-native plants for campus … thing to collect, clean, cold-store and transplant them." Going native Among the staffers at the Finch Greenhouse …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/54808
Two student entrepreneurs receive awards for innovation
Haworth College of Business
… continuing education credits, is currently available on Google Play and in the Apple App store. Joshua utilized his … with the current process," explains Vaughn. SnapDuct's coupling attachment has the possibility of cutting installation time in half, or better. Vaughn grew up learning the ropes at his father's HVAC company and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/05/53252
Safety communication options grow out of committee appointed by Dunn
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… in Kalamazoo on a single evening last February. The group worked to examine existing communication tools and … communicate," Edmonds says. The committee adopted six categories of events that could become part of the new Twitter … messages, to those subscribing. "While those six categories may provide a guide, many times such information will …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/01/37740
Take advantage of global engagement opportunities this month
Haenicke Institute for Global Education
… ready to contribute to world knowledge and discovery. To support these efforts, WMU offers global engagement … 9 WMU Study Abroad Classroom Presentation Initiative —ongoing, hosted by WMU Study Abroad. The beginning of the … most successful outreach strategies in working toward this goal. Request a classroom presentation Call for CELCIS …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/01/37213
Grant puts rare Latin manuscript into WMU's collection
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… a Benedictine abbot later made a saint by Pope Gregory VII. It is an instructional text about the Eucharist … as a tool for individual study, rather than the kind of group use that was the purpose of some larger medieval … American women's poetry, historical children's books, pop-up and movable books, 19th- and 20th-century literature, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36070
Education researcher to be honored as WMU emerging scholar
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… to achieve renown in their continuing work. The award goes to scholars nominated for consideration through a … trove of large-scale data sets, analyze them and come up with ways to inform the design of large evaluations of … "As a methodologist in statistics, Dr. Spybrook's impact goes beyond the discipline to reach the community and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/09/35309
Celebrations, activities mark beginning of fall semester
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… to college life. A total of 3,090 new students signed up for the Tuesday through Friday, Sept. 1-4, event. Fall … games and giveaways, it will feature information about supportive resources and services that are available locally, … Resource Center and Kalamazoo Community Foundation with support from other local organizations. For more information, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/09/26602
WMU inventors win $10,000 Brian Patrick Thomas Award
Haworth College of Business
… $10,000 award for their invention, NeoVent, a respiratory support device designed to treat critically ill infants in … Gate during the 2014-15 academic year, their initial goals were to focus on customer discovery to see if their … began working on the device more than a year and a half ago in John's home and spent months refining it in Dr. Peter …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25223