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Kalamazoo Arts Council grant takes WMU dancer to Panama

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… children in that nation's orphanages and centers for at-risk youth. Junior Sarah Mills is in Panama City this summer with an organization called Movement Exchange to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/24066

Services set this weekend for Evaluation Center founder Stufflebeam

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… Services set this weekend for Evaluation Center founder Stufflebeam … Daniel Stufflebeam A Saturday, July 29 , memorial service is planned for Dr. Daniel Stufflebeam , an internationally … in the grant-making world—names like the MacArthur, Kellogg and Alger foundations. Internationally, he traveled to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/07/41433

Western alum appointed to leadership post in U.S. Department of Transportation

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… by Erin Flynn on WASHINGTON, D.C.—There's a lot riding on Tristan Brown's success. As newly appointed acting administrator/deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/63812

Jim Tripp obituary

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… service to the University. Survivors include his longtime companion, Pam McMakin, a WMU retiree. He loved his WMU job and took great pride in his work at the University, but his health required him to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29795

Longtime WMU friend, honors college namesake Carl Lee dies at 96

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… E Lee Kalamazoo broadcast pioneer Carl E Lee , who with his late wife Winifred Lee was the namesake for Western … . He was 96. Lee worked for 60 years in the radio and television broadcasting industry and was president and CEO of … supporting a number of initiatives. In 1988, Lee and his wife, Winifred, who died in 2012, pledged $500,000 for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/02/22184

Battery research project will support company's clean energy plan

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… included a ribbon cutting for the battery facility, which is unique to Michigan and has been erected on WMU's Parkview … WMU President Edward Montgomery as well as local legislators and county commissioners participated in the event. "Advances in battery …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/09/49068

WMU instructor and education students make privacy screens for virtual learning

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… Erin Flynn on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Learning during a pandemic is hard. Many kids in K-12 schools across the country are … don't necessarily have the luxury. Maybe they live at the mission and they don't want people to know that based on the … where they're actually teaching as well. They saw the struggle immediately, because half of the students they work …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/12/62393

Irish Festival features music, food and activities

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… Irish Festival features music, food and activities Submitted by Deanne Puca on Dancers at a past Irish Festival (Photo credit: kalamazooirish.org) KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Kalamazoo Irish Fest will …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/25102

Passion for helping drives family studies graduate's success

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… says Marin, who changed her major a few times as she discovered new opportunities within the College of Education … right within my path and in my values, and I think Western is definitely a place where you can go and thrive." Marin … to do. Now that it's here, I'm like, 'Wow, I did it!'" This opportunity is something Marin doesn't take for granted. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/12/62463

Student awarded Critical Languages Scholarship to study in Jordan

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… semester through a prestigious federal scholarship. Kristen Canavan , a senior majoring in global and … Bangla, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. … With an acceptance rate of less than 10 percent, the CLS is one of the most competitive study abroad scholarships …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/23885