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Brush Ease wins first place at Bronco Pitch Competition
Haworth College of Business
… ideas from Western Michigan University students. A team of engineering students claimed first place with their … College of Business, provides a platform for WMU and high school area students to pitch their innovative business … disciplines throughout the University and area high schools to pitch their entrepreneurial concepts. It’s …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/06/75711
Healing arts in the spotlight during WMU Humanities Center season
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… by Anonymous (not verified) on Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" KALAMAZOO, Mich.--The healing arts will be under the … best-selling author Yann Martel , whose book "Life of Pi" won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and became an academy … Medicine and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, 7 p.m., Shaw Theatre, "Caregiving and the Moral …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19571
Claude S. Phillips Jr. obituary
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… Claude S. Phillips Jr., Western Michigan University professor emeritus of political science and co-founder of what is now the … of more than 3,500 specialized volumes, helped area high school teachers to enhance cultural studies in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15877
Connections between engineering and business a win for students
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… both registered student organizations (RSOs) at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences that are open to all WMU students. “My experience at Western is one of opportunities that allowed me to utilize my skills to … Rubarth first learned about Formula SAE while still in high school from his cousin, fellow Bronco Andrew Piasecki, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/03/75143
Campus gets ready for United Way launch
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… its commitment to education and recognizes the importance of supporting efforts to provide all children a quality … WMU graduates since 1904, including the anticipated number of degrees to be awarded in the current 2014-15 academic … was a 67 percent improvement in reading proficiency in one school over the last three years, thanks to a United …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18457
Interdisciplinary faculty cohort works to expand project-based learning at WMU
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… for its expertise in K-12 education, international professional development leader PBL Works collaborated with … learning at WMU," says Alyssa Moon , associate director of instructional design and development at WMUx. "This … workshop. "There are professors from the business school, engineering, economics, even theatre, art and …
https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/09/interdisciplinary-faculty-project-based-learning-wmux
Nobel Peace laureate brings message to WMU
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… Lakes PeaceJam Spring Youth Conference. Update 3/11/20: Out of an abundance of caution, following the University’s decision to cancel … and brings together more than 300 elementary, middle, high school and college-age students from Michigan, Illinois, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/03/58403
Kinetic Affect to address diversity in community performance
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… again at 9 a.m. the following day in the Kalamazoo Public Schools' Chenery Auditorium, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. in Kalamazoo. The free performance is open to employees of the agencies sponsoring the 2013 Respecting Differences … is a former boxer, acting coach and Portage, Mich., high school English teacher. Latimer has discovered a way to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5531
WMU secures NIH grant to use technology to battle opioid addiction
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… been awarded a $222,383 grant from the National Institutes of Health's Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or NIH HEAL, Initiative. Dr. Anthony DeFulio , associate professor of psychology, will lead the research, which … Medicine Residency Program at the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, to collaborate with local hospitals and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/55634
Social work student finds passion, home at WMU
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… Erin Flynn on A post-graduation activity report reveals 94% of 2018-19 WMU graduates are actively employed or pursuing … about the results here . KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Life has a way of coming full circle. For Johnny Anderson III , it happens … ago that he was in their shoes. Anderson graduated high school in 1999 eying a career in graphic design. He enrolled …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/01/57553