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Graduate students receive WMU Dames Endowed Scholarships

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… degree program at WMU.  First awarded in 1997 in accordance with an agreement made between the University and the WMU … del Castillo Pacheco del Castillo of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is a doctoral student in the Department of … to complete her dissertation. Her research is titled "Dominican College Students' Experiences of Distress Help-Seeking …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/32980

New program helps to prepare finance students for Series 7 exam

Haworth College of Business

… by Edward Jones. The new offering provides finance students with the training required to take the licensing exam to … after being hired by a trading firm. Under the partnership with Edward Jones, WMU students will be prepared to take the … one-third of financial advisors plan to retire. To keep up with demand, the industry will need to hire more than …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/30134

Results-oriented academic leader, public policy scholar will lead Western’s academic affairs division

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… a bold thought leader and change agent to work in concert with faculty and staff in an environment designed to help … and evaluation as well as a faculty affiliate in African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69883

Sixth-graders get a look at college life at WMU

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… look at college life and the opportunities available with a college education through a program called Bronco … Students . Through the initiative, the University partners with KPS to encourage early middle school students to set … recipients themselves. The Bronco BUDS is reinforced with programs each year that continue as students move …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/03/51811

Sixth-grade students welcomed for tour and day of activities

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… look at college life and the opportunities available with a college education through a program called Bronco … Students. Through the initiative, the University partners with KPS to encourage early middle school students to set … recipients themselves. The Bronco BUDS is reinforced with programs each year that continue as students move …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45572

WMU to host discussion on the fall and rise of income equality in the U.S.

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… League for Public Policy and he has served as a consultant with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Health and Human … for numerous major economics journals, such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal … Economics and Statistics, Journal of Pubic Economics and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He also has done extensive …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42876

'Acting Against Poverty' food drive supports WMU students in need

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… WMU’s Invisible Need Project food pantry this year with its annual "Acting Against Poverty" food drive. The food drive will run in conjunction with the department’s production of "Hair" and will be open … as well as community members, are encouraged to bring canned food items and other non-perishables to the Gilmore …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/11/20100

WMU board approves honorary degree for French composer Legrand

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… of Cherbourg," will be in Kalamazoo in May to perform with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra for the 2016 Gilmore … of his three Academy Awards in 1968, when "The Windmills of Your Mind" from "The Thomas Crown Affair" was lauded as best … has "bridged the musical styles of European classical, American jazz and popular music." "The committee believes Mr. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/30243

Campus community members will make their marks on new facility

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… beam between 3:30 and 4 p.m . The ceremony will conclude with a beam-raising at 4 p.m. when the signed support beam … the last piece of steel is raised into place, often adorned with an evergreen tree for good luck as well as other … and wraps, breakfast fare, a full grill menu, salad bar with fresh cut fruit, and a full dessert station …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28660

Dance emerita honored for advocacy

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… celebrates an individual who has demonstrated significant accomplishment in advancing and supporting dance in the … leadership. Cornish Cornish, who retired from WMU in 2003 with emerita status, was instrumental in shaping the … Education, and Recreation, now SHAPE Michigan; the Michigan Youth Arts Festival; and Partners in Dance.  In many cases, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45267