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Behind the Boarding Gate: Brady Wilson’s Impact on Aviation Management

College of Aviation

Behind the Boarding Gate: Brady Wilson’s Impact on Aviation … child for what a college education is all about and how it can catapult one's career and life.   On a spring Saturday … what aircraft we should fly," he says.   Relatively soon into his career, Wilson was part of "network planning" at …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2025/12/wilson

Doctoral candidate charts course for success in world-class sailing win

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… Doctoral candidate charts course for success in world-class sailing … Submitted by Erin Flynn on Mohammed Asif, center, recently became a champion at the 2025 Vintage Gold Cup alongside … sailors to navigate vintage wooden Star Class boats into the wind, around a mark and then back to the finish …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/11/star-vintage-sailing-world-champion-mohammed-asif

Tuition and budget for 2012-13 academic year top trustees' agenda

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… to 12:30 p.m. Meeting at 12:30 p.m. in Room 157 of the Bernhard Center, the board will consider the … a general fund operating budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. During the meeting, board members also will … regarding the University's investment of its operating cash. A number of other items round out the board agenda, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/07/1071

Business pitch competition open to WMU student entrepreneurs

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… campus are invited to present their business pitches for cash prizes totaling $4,000 at the third annual Pitch … at Western Michigan University. Aspiring entrepreneurs will be asked to develop a three-minute pitch about an innovative … idea for an audience of potential investors. Students will be evaluated in progressive rounds by panels of judges …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/02/21767

Engineering students design concussion sensor for football helmets

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—At a time when football concussions are triggering lawsuits and making headlines, students at Western Michigan University have come up with a device that can be implanted in a football helmet to monitor the severity …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/07/17339

Michigan Gov. Snyder makes campus stop for WMUK taping

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… by city government. That city government, he said, had become an obstacle counteracting all the positive things … is enough," he maintained. Late in the interview, talk turned to politics and whether Snyder had decided to run again for the gubernatorial post and how he felt about the prospect of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/07/8360

Researcher who models off-world storms earns NASA fellowship

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… fellowship Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Brueshaber KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Figuring out how the weather on Earth … giant gas planets. Shawn R. Brueshaber , a doctoral candidate at Western Michigan University, is trying to do … it plunged a broad area of Canada and the United States into a bitter deep freeze. Profs provide extra support …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36117

Trustees approve moving ahead with downtown property shifts

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… land transfers are contingent on Kalamazoo County entering into a purchase agreement with MW Acquisitions LLC for one … the development. Owners of the reconfigured area would then be MW Acquisitions and then Kalamazoo County, and WMU. Vice … set deadlines for WMU to commence construction on a significant project or allow DTI to purchase the property. Those …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38755

Anthropology professor emeritus receives State History Award for Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

College of Arts and Sciences

… thrill of uncovering artifacts from the 18th century and being able to piece together a story about life at that … cultures of colonial French newcomers and the Native Americans who occupied the area for centuries before settlers … gap between the academic and public communities.” Digging into the history of The City of Four Flags Beginning in 1691 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/01/70260

Education meets innovation: Interior design students envision accessible future for teen living with rare progressive disease

W Magazine

… "It gives me goosebumps to think that something I do before I even enter the field could help change a family's … built into a hill, and our second floor has a deck. So he can get out to the deck, and get on the four-wheeler, and … proved nearly impossible. In an act of desperation, she turned to the NextDoor app hoping someone might know of a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69849