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WMU a leader in offering learning by virtual reality
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… actually see the culture. Practice surgery or accurately design a 3D car. Western Michigan University offers significant opportunities in the areas of teaching, learning … growing potential it has to shape the future." Community groups also have taken advantage of the local resource, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/12/50873
Select group receives top undergraduate honor for 2015
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… Select group receives top undergraduate honor for 2015 Submitted by … Presidential Scholar. The annual Presidential Scholar designation is the highest honor WMU can bestow on an … Scholarship. She has served as president of the Bronco Free Market as well as the secretary and a member of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/25421
Student Recreation Center creates lasting impact on students’ personal growth, sense of belonging
Student Life
… Students, faculty and staff can participate in several group classes on the multipurpose courts. The climbing wall on … life. In addition, the University found the SRC has a significant impact on student’s feelings of well-being with … needs of its attendees, the SRC continues to make a significant and lasting impact on stude nts in ways that …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/02/70910
Navy veteran and four-time CAS alum built a career by probing the link between humans and their machines
College of Arts and Sciences
… an initial deployment on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower supporting Operation Deny Flight and Operation Provide … (DARPA), the government’s rather radical department designed to explore seemingly impossible ideas and, in many … Award. The project, called Augmented Cognition, was designed to exponentially “extend the information management …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69145
First Global Education Program cohort inspired to expand global learning opportunities for kids
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… hampered some plans for long-term study abroad, a core group of students from the 2018 cohort continued to the … their own explorations of other cultures." GEP students designed an innovative digital curriculum using Google … scholars. The Program The Global Engagement Program is designed for a cohort of students to grow together through a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/05/68108
Three professors to be honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards
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… and socialization into the student role. Writing in support of her nomination, a former graduate assistant noted … and influential part of their education. Although I was assigned to serve Dr. Anderson, it was truly she who served … important and intriguing," she wrote. "Many times, her assignments had topics chosen by the students, giving us an …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43111
University to honor its top four staffers for 2016-17
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… student employees, Fraaza develops programming as well as supervises and trains the more than 200 student leaders it … nominators also wrote highly about Fraaza's ability to keep updating Fall Welcome programming in light of changing … over the years. "This person is the single most impactful supervisor I have had the pleasure to learn from," one of her …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42945
Twenty incoming students win $50,000 Medallion Scholarships
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… The daylong event included essay writing and a group problem-solving activity for the students as well as an … Morales spent nearly the same amount of time helping to design sets and leading set construction, and she worked on … and all-conference and state-qualifying honors in freestyle, relay and other swimming events. The former …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/06/7662
Dr. Homer Hartman Stryker biography
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… so the patient's mobility was better. The Cast Cutter was designed to alleviate the cumbersome task of removing a cast. … Cutter, with continual improvements in performance and design over time. Early years Homer Hartman Stryker was born … schoolhouse in the Keweenaw Bay school system in the Upper Peninsula, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and served in …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/14108
School of Music faculty produce dozens of creative and research projects in trying times
Irving S. Gilmore School of Music
… new pieces for septet by Hawaiian composers. The grant supported a 10-day tour for masterclasses and performances in … 2020. Music History Professor Lauron Kehrer discusses her upcoming book project in a YouTube interview Music history … You Hear Me? Examining Racial and Cultural Biases and Microaggressions in the Modern Classical Music World” at the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/11/61926