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WMU grad student wins coveted NEA creative writing fellowship

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… KALAMAZOO—A Western Michigan University graduate student is one of 40 people nationwide to be awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts … state of Michigan to receive an individual artist grant; however, many arts organizations in the state received …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/12/3834

WMU honored with Heterodox Academy’s 2025 Open Inquiry Award for Community Excellence

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… Award for Community Excellence Submitted by Paula M. Davis on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University has been … Heterodox Academy (HxA), a national organization committed to promoting viewpoint diversity, open inquiry and … modeled after HxA’s policy framework, formalizing how the University issues official statements on social, …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/06/wmu-honored-heterodox-academy-2025-open-inquiry-award-community-excellence

WMU 3D printers producing face shields and masks for health care workers

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… care workers Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Learn how WMU faculty and staff are using 3D printers to make face … during the COVID-19 patient surge. Dylan Ledbetter , assistant director of Information Technology labs and the Help … to go to the Sindecuse Health center as part of the ongoing WMU effort to provide materials to help protect health …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/58813

Renowned foreign affairs expert Lawrence Ziring dies at 86

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… Ziring , a Western Michigan University political scientist who was internationally known as a leading expert on Pakistan, died July 17 in Kalamazoo. He was 86. Lawrence Ziring … Asia geopolitics, U.S. foreign policy for that region and NATO. He retired from WMU in 2004 as professor emeritus of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25594

WMU biologist helps settle 50-year-old fish evolution debate

College of Arts and Sciences

… WMU biologist helps settle 50-year-old fish evolution debate Submitted … aquatic life ignited at an early age. His curiosity led him to spend time learning about different fish species, which … “They just keep getting different answers depending on how you look at it.”  Thompson sought to finally “nail down” …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73661

Business Broncos take first place in ACG Cup competition

Haworth College of Business

… by Anonymous (not verified) on ACG Cup winners, left to right, are Jake Myers, Martin Walker, Megan Rooney and … for Corporate Growth Cup , winning a $6,000 cash prize. This is the first time WMU has won the competition at the … learned so much from my fellow team members and the case on how to create a financial valuation using different …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/03/67589

WMU sales students win team gold and individual honors

Haworth College of Business

… students placed first overall at the University of Toledo Invitational Sales Competition, with one student … second. First-year student Ryan Demas of Naperville, Illinois, and junior Stacy Zoeller,  of Portage, represented WMU. … this is my first year at Western, I am still learning how to sell and how to enter a meeting. To get this sort of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45781

Book clubs examine college admissions, immigration, medical establishment's treatment of Black Americans

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… Book clubs examine college admissions, immigration, medical establishment's treatment of … 20, and continues through mid-November. Fill out this form to register . Upon registration, you will receive details … philosopher Joseph Carens’ The Ethics of Immigration . How should democracies think about immigration? What ethical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/09/65599

Students earn accolades for innovative construction adhesives research

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… Mich.—Two Western Michigan University students are being touted for their innovative approach to helping structures … withstand extreme weather, earthquakes and other threats. Israel Medrano Israel Medrano and Sneha Nath earned a top 15 … classifying these adhesives. “This research is evidence of how high-performance adhesives could be used to enhance …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/01/66837

Campuswide book discussion looks at the evolution of what divides us

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… Campuswide book discussion looks at the evolution of what divides us … exploring politics, polarization, what moralization is and how it evolves. This 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt  describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion. Americans have longstanding …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/08/60896