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Special education major earns outstanding student award
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… goes to one "extraordinary undergraduate student" who is an MCEC member. The Van Riper Outstanding College Student Award is named after the speech-language pathology and audiology … compassion for others and passion for helping those with disabilities. Foreman's peers noted that she is always …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44996
WMU’s new-music ensembles to give one of a kind performance
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… Orchestra Kalamazoo Laptop Orchestra Founded in 2009, KLOrk is a performing ensemble in which the musical instruments … portion of the concert will include two works by Lou Harrison for Javanese gamelan and Western instruments in which … as a virtual gamelan ensemble; an arrangement of a minimalist piece by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; and an original …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19873
Modeling justice and equity featured on the design summer camp drawing board
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… environment. Participating in summer camps on campus while his father worked on the renovation of Waldo Hall in the … young age of eight years old, he had already identified his passion for architecture and its power to address social inequities. "My mission with this camp is to spread the word about …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/08/72541
WMUK holds on-air fall membership drive
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… a pledge goal of $175,000 over the course of the campaign. Listener contributions to WMUK financially support the … we know that people have come to rely on our station. But this kind of programming is also quite expensive, so listener support is as important …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42316
Nobel laureate to give talk on peace building, women's rights
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… on Leymah Gbowee KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A Liberian peace activist who helped bring an end to the second Liberian civil war … Women to Stop Being Politely Angry." Organized as a fundraiser, the event is open to the public with a suggested donation of $15 and will be preceded by a Nobel …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46210
New director named for Soga Japan Center
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… Yoshida, whose appointment was effective Sept. 2, is a founding member of the center and a WMU associate professor of history. He teaches a range of courses in Japanese history at both the undergraduate and graduate level and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18866
Business students vie for share of $250,000 competition prize
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… job site. Brenna Vaughn, right, and Danny Rogers, left, display the prototype for their product, SnapDuct. Seniors … Brennan Vaughn and Danny Rogers are headed to Minneapolis for the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge . Only 25 … submitted their business ideas," says Vaughn, who is from Mattawan. "It's just a surreal moment to not only be …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/04/52859
Horn Day open to anyone who wants to learn more about the horn
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… festival at Western Michigan University open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the horn, will take … including a master class and recital by guest artist Aaron Brant , principal hornist with the Dayton Philharmonic and instructor at the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44910
U-M bioethicist tackles health reform at Medical Humanities Conference
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… U-M bioethicist tackles health reform at Medical Humanities Conference … by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A bioethicist and medical doctor at the University of Michigan will … at the Fourth Annual Medical Humanities Conference this week at Western Michigan University. Dr. Susan Dorr Goold …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18855
Southwest Michigan slates Chávez dinner, awards program
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… Saturday, March 29 , during an annual scholarship fundraising dinner that includes the presentation of three … person, are being accepted until Monday, March 24 . This is the eighth year that WMU's Division of Multicultural …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/14270