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WMU finance student wins international scholarship from DECA

Haworth College of Business

… “DECA at WMU has allowed me to grow both personally and professionally,” she says. “I took on a leadership position in … work with others. In addition, I have learned to have a lot of confidence in myself as a professional.” Forging relationships with students across the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/04/75391

WMU graduate students to host national conference this week

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… through Sunday, Nov. 7-10 , for the 27th annual conference of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students. The conference, which is NAGPS' …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/10979

Business students win national sales challenge

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… and role-play. The speed-selling competition consists of students giving a two-minute "elevator pitch" about why a … which they meet with a buyer and sell the payroll services of ADP, a firm specializing in payroll and business solutions, to the fictitious "Frozen Treats" chain of yogurt shops. The overall team score is calculated by …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/12/11441

Undergraduate selected to receive prestigious Boren Scholarship

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… 2018 and spring 2019 semesters at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where she will be studying Portuguese. Wiley was selected as one of 221 Boren Scholarship recipients out of 794 applicants from around the country to receive a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47663

'Hollywood's Revival' student fashion show reimagines iconic looks for the stage

College of Education and Human Development

… dress covered in flowers. Model  EfeDaniel Evwaraye  shows off an animal print look. Designer Laura Argentati walks … had the autonomy to create their lines from any period of Hollywood's storied history. "Each board member wanted to … , chair of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), presented two $1,000 scholarships to MODA …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/04/75337

Bronco Innovators Challenge inspires creativity, encourages entrepreneurship

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… by Erin Flynn on Left to right: Dr. Steven Butt, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Imani Williams; Taylor Auby; Renee Cilluffo; …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/08/72467

Savings add up for students under Libraries' grants for free online textbooks

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… Michigan University students are expected to save a total of nearly $164,000 on the cost of textbooks and course enrollment in 2021 through a grant … program for free online materials. In its second round of Open Education Resources (OER) grants, University …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/02/63257

Longtime WMU board secretary Betty Kocher dies at 84

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… as secretary to the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees for 35 years, died Nov. 2 in Kalamazoo at … Kocher, who had retired just two years ago at the end of 2015, worked with 46 trustees over the years and, at the time of her retirement, had worked for every WMU president except …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43661

ROTC event to memorialize Capt. Russell, award scholarship

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… program has established an endowed scholarship in the name of Capt. Drew Russell , a WMU graduate who was killed in … for him Tuesday, March 20. Russell, a lifelong resident of Scotts, Mich., graduated from WMU in 2008. He was killed … October in an attack by insurgents in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. A fallen soldier ceremony for Russell is …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/242

Disney internship program to recruit at WMU

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… to recruit Western Michigan University students for a one-of-a-kind education and work program at the Magic Kingdom in … at 6 p.m. in the Brown and Gold Room on the second floor of the Bernhard Center to provide information about the real world of make believe and becoming a Disney "cast member." The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/1652