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Speaker to address today's changing perspectives on gender
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… mouth" around transgender and nonbinary people. Actor and award-winning storyteller Scott Turner Schofield will present … He does this within an intersectional framework—the way that the topics of biological sex, gender and sexuality … moments of storytelling and allowing personal questions in order to engage his audience's emotional intelligence. Those …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/39114
WMU's flight operations chief named to presidential leadership group
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… Va., the group spent its first working weekend traveling to Washington for meetings at the White House and the National … says, is the second class to be named. The group, which was selected from among more than 600 applicants for the … to take their leadership strengths to a higher level in order to help their communities and our country." Kavalhuna …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/31048
Campus compensation project heads for home stretch
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… categories to cover salary ranges and job responsibilities, was introduced earlier this year and is based on … match WMU positions to the external market moving forward, according to Warren Hills, associate vice president … the existing compensation system will be suspended in order to allow adequate time to implement the new system. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23445
Campus gets ready for United Way launch
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… Campus gets ready for United Way launch Submitted by Deanne Puca on WMU's 2014 Campus United Way campaign is titled "Change the Story." KALAMAZOO, … a $25 increase this year qualifies them for the drawing. In order to be included in this drawing, pledge forms or …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18457
WMU instructor and education students make privacy screens for virtual learning
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… the luxury. Maybe they live at the mission and they don't want people to know that based on the background. They may have families fighting in the background. They may just want privacy, period." Peake, a former Kalamazoo Public … to recognize how we are able to assist our students in order to meet their needs." Wright is a Future Educator …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/12/62393
'Twist of fate' gives painting grad space to come into her own as an artist
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… an opportunity to pivot and pursue visual arts. "I think I was really able to come into my own and really change a lot and make some waves in the Frostic School of Art," she says. "So I was … you should be expanding your mind and your experiences in order to make more poignant art." Outside of the art studio, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/12/62508
WMU alumna honored for efforts to curb human trafficking and end modern-day slavery
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… and end modern-day slavery Submitted by Erin Flynn on WASHINGTON, D.C.—Enslaved by a family member who trafficked … country of Togo to the United States as a child, hope was hard to come by for Bella Hounakey . "Hope is the worst … out exploitation. She also helped draft an executive order on combating human trafficking and online child …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/09/61417
Walker Institute celebrates diversity in comics with month of Marvel-focused programming
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… Walker Institute celebrates diversity in comics with month … Submitted by Erin Flynn on An early "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" movie premiere, discussion with Marvel … to re-watch the movies and delve more into the comics in order to find those elements to create those connections …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/10/69657
Michigan has minerals America needs
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… separates outs scandium. Learn more about Trump's executive order and the nation's critical and non-critical mineral … supply of metallic magnesium from 1927 into the late 1930's was produced by the Dow Chemical Co. from Midland-area …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/06/54012
Molecular biology lab uses classroom for real-world research
College of Arts and Sciences
… happens in Dr. Todd Barkman 's molecular biology lab. “I wanted to bring together the techniques of doing science (in … to classroom The molecular biology lab course didn’t always provide students with an authentic research experience. … to drive the bacteria to produce proteins from the gene in order to research what the gene does. From plants to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/68776