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Honored military veteran to speak on campus about resilience

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… Michigan University. Her talk, "The Resilience Factor," is sponsored by WMU's Foundation Scholars, Kalamazoo Promise Scholars and Seita Scholars programs. Her talk is part of the Resilience Series, an annual event now in its …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/09/35094

Participation needed for institutional transformation effort

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… verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University is creating professional learning communities that focus on improving persistence toward graduation for all undergraduate students, … are being set up through the Broncos FIRST program, which is being implemented by the new Center for Research on …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25412

Celebrated writer to speak at WMU

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… Puca on Jin KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Chinese-American poet and novelist Dr. Xuefei Jin will speak on "Displacement as Opportunity" at a lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, … Michigan University. Jin, who uses the pen name Ha Jin, is the winner of the prestigious National Book Award and a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45979

Open house at Unified Clinics to spread awareness about aphasia

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A Western Michigan University open house is planned later this month at the Unified Clinics Building on Oakland Drive to … with about two million Americans living with it and upwards of 80,000 Americans acquiring the disorder each year. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24792

Physicist melds scientific, humanitarian drive at UN's 'nuclear watchdog'

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… Physicist melds scientific, humanitarian drive at UN's 'nuclear … agency, helping to monitor nations' nuclear programs. This is a man who, after earning a Ph.D. in physics from … I was doing too much science and not enough in the bigger picture benefiting society. In the Peace Corps, I was …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/01/37548

Newly designed program in organizational change leadership offered

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… graduate program in organizational change leadership is being offered on Western Michigan University's main … The new 33-hour M.A. in organizational change leadership is a competency-grounded program that builds capacities to … completed online. Organizational change leadership is housed in the Department of Educational Leadership, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/05/40184

Results-oriented academic leader, public policy scholar will lead Western’s academic affairs division

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… policy scholar will lead Western’s academic affairs division Submitted by Erin Flynn on Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig … and Vice president for Academic Affairs. Vasquez Heilig is currently dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Education, where he has led the charge to raise the college's profile and championed strategies that …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69883

Funding awards help small businesses hire summer 2017 interns

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… 2017 interns Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Chris Van Horn and Mike McMillen, TraumaSoft KALAMAZOO, … in the science, technology, engineering and math—STEM—disciplines. Funding applications for this summer are due Wednesday, March 1 . "The Small Company …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38170

WMU mourns student Jacob Jones, who was victim of off-campus shooting

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… by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, which has jurisdiction in that area and is leading the investigation. Both KDPS and the WMU … be found at wmich.edu/president . The shooting did not trigger a WMU Alert. Officers arriving on the scene immediately …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36851

Assessment Conference returns for 8th year

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… , on campus in the Fetzer Center. WMU graduate teaching assistants as well as faculty and staff members, including … to come and go as their schedules permit. The conference is free of charge, but registration is required by Friday, March 10 , for the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38207