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University's geospatial sciences designation to be touted at open house
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… Academic Excellence in the Geospatial Sciences. Students in WMU's introductory Geographic Information Science course … Welborn Hall on the Main Campus. The public event gives WMU and its Department of Geography an opportunity to tout … to participate in the program. The open house also allows WMU's two host centers to showcase several community mapping …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43392
Technical writing group grants fellow status to Professor Thralls
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… a specialist in rhetoric and writing studies who serves the WMU Department of English as an undergraduate advisor as well as a faculty member. Prior to coming to WMU, she held tenured appointments at Iowa State University, … field come in the area of curriculum development. At WMU, she was instrumental in creating the major in rhetoric …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47574
Welcome activities planned for start of fall semester
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… Fall Welcome activities. They continue into September with WMU's One Stop Center, Graduate Student Resource Fair, … and Move-in Students who are beginning their careers at WMU this fall have an opportunity to get the hang of campus … center A temporary, one-stop service center will be open in WMU's Bernhard Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/08/41607
Professor transforming aviation education using augmented reality
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… state late last fall and was recently awarded the WMU Extended University Programs Innovative Teaching award. … context and scale. With the technology, students in WMU's College of Aviation can be immersed, for instance, … aviation classrooms Brown Through Brown's HoloLens work, WMU has become the first aviation program in the nation to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/45008
Longtime professor, administrator to become new business dean
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… faculty member and administrator, will become dean of WMU's Haworth College of Business, effective Jan. 1 . … people, programs and facilities," says Dr. Susan Stapleton, WMU interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. … the University leadership to pursue strategic goals for WMU, I know we will deliver initiatives that have a positive …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/12/44324
New class of Medallion Scholars inducted into elite group
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… . Medallion Scholarships are the highest merit-based award WMU can bestow on an incoming first-time freshman. Valued at … higher education. Some of this year's scholars received a WMU Presidential Medallion Scholarship, while others … event held during two November and December sessions at WMU. Invitations to compete were based on a combination of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/10/54831
Film preview, discussion to focus attention on mental illness
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… that are put upon teenagers to succeed. Kate Thomsen , a WMU assistant professor of theatre and an actress from … , Mental Health First Aid trainers; and representatives of WMU's student chapter of the National Alliance on Mental … new Jeff Daniels play "Diva Royale." Two of her students at WMU, Evan Lugo of Sterling Heights and Sebastiana Gullo of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/10/49463
Western engineering alum helps power next frontier of military defense in Space Force
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… Launch Initiative (WALI) and as a research assistant in the WMU Space Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory were among … get me there. You've got to start somewhere!" For more WMU news, arts and events , visit WMU News online. Mostek stands among rockets in the National …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66119
Caring cases: Luggage for Love seeking donations for foster children
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… with personal and professional insight. That’s why four WMU Master of Social Work students launched Luggage for … advances. According to Dr. Jim Henry , a co-founder of WMU’s Southwest Michigan Children’s Trauma Assessment … to this project: Luggage for Love has also teamed with WMU’s Seita Scholars Program to provide encouraging letters …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/58665
Goat work crew returns to campus for second helping
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… hand for the event will be Garrett Fickle and Nick Gooch, WMU horticulturist and the landscape services staff member … proposed the goat pilot project. For directions to WMU or a campus map, visit wmich.edu/maps/printables.php . … (Photo credit: Jeanne Baron) The 2016 pilot project whetted WMU's appetite for employing more goats this summer. In …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40334