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WMU's foster youth support program to get $750,000 from state

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… the Legislature June 5 includes $750,000 in the Department of Human Services appropriation to support Western Michigan … college degrees. The item in the DHS appropriation is part of an overall state budget that also includes a 2.31 percent … provides a support network for students who have aged out of foster care and are pursuing college degrees. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/771

Annual food marketing conference features industry leaders

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… show supermarket guru, Phil Lempert , will join a list of top food industry professionals later this month as a featured speaker at this … Performance.” Food Marketing Conference Lempert will kick off the conference by sharing his perspective on the top 10 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5472

Global warming activist to bring climate fight to campus

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… His presentation, titled "Notes from the Front Lines of the Climate Fight," is part of the University Center for the Humanities 2013-14 Changing … D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest act of civil disobedience …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10071

Racing toward his goals: Engineering student follows passion on the track

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… “I had always loved working hands on with cars and dreamed of becoming a racer. On my tour of WMU, I saw the car sitting in the lobby of the engineering building and knew I needed to be on that …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66110

Top-ranked Occupational Therapy textbook updated

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… verified) on KALAMAZOO--Two Western Michigan University professors have edited a fourth edition of one of the top 10 textbooks in use in curricula across the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/299

National scholar to keynote annual Chavez Scholarship fundraiser

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… Michigan will celebrate the life and work of civil rights leader César E. Chávez this month through an … dinner Saturday, March 23 . The Celebrating the Legacy of César E. Chávez scholarship fundraising dinner costs $40 … at the door. This is the seventh year that WMU's Division of Multicultural Affairs has teamed with the Southwest …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5807

Simply Eight founder to speak at Entrepreneurship Forum

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… by Anonymous (not verified) on Pang KALAMAZOO—The founder of a Michigan-based company dedicated to simple, great-tasting foods will kick off the 2013-14 Entrepreneurship Forum at Western Michigan University. Ernie Pang , founder of Simply Eight, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/09/9139

WMU partners with local tribes to create tribal governance graduate certificate

College of Arts and Sciences

… Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on The announcement of the tribal governance certificate occurred at an event … WMU Native American Affairs Council and assistant secretary of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior Bryan Newland. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Long before …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73676

Annual festival brings theatre artists from across Midwest to campus

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… will have an opportunity to engage with emerging and professional theatre artists from across the Midwest during … through Saturday, June 16. Sponsored by the departments of theatre and English, the festival is dedicated to developing and producing the plays of emerging theatre artists. Events will be held at the York …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47468

Spencer Gould is energized for his future

Haworth College of Business

… in the world through his studies at the Haworth College of Business. A business analytics major, he has jumped into … with a company he continues to work for today.  The world of business analytics is always changing, making Gould’s area of study an exciting one. “I am very interested to see how …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/10/73047