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Award-winning WMU poet will launch Frostic Reading Series

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… University poet will read selections from his new book of poems to kick off the fall 2017 Gwen Frostic Reading Series at WMU. Dr. William Olsen , professor of English and editor of WMU's New Issues Poetry and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42757

British author, adventurer to take WMU audience on a journey

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… to faraway places when she speaks later this month as part of the University Center for the Humanities spring series at … Western Michigan University. Victoria Finlay , the author of three popular non-fiction books, will speak at 7 p.m. … open to the public. Finlay From the ultramarine mountains of Afghanistan to the sacred ocher mines of Australia, via …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38802

Interim campuswide policy on sexual misconduct now in effect

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… on the interim policy. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—After months of analysis and measuring federal guidelines against current … a seamless reporting and support experience for members of the campus community who believe they've been the victims of sexual misconduct. The WMU Sexual and Gender-Based …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/21036

Charles M. Woodliff obituary

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… Charles M. Woodliff Dr. Charles "Chuck" M. Woodliff , a professor emeritus of instructional communication and former director of what used to be the Division of Academic Services, died …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45895

St. Julian Winery makes gift to WMU leadership and business strategy program

Haworth College of Business

… Bronconess Wine team celebrates St. Julian Winery's gift of more than $17,000 in scholarship funds to Western … Mich.—Following a partnership with the Haworth College of Business Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy, St. Julian Winery made a gift of more than $17,000 in scholarship funds to Western …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/03/67645

Ethics event to feature Purdue scholar's discussion on preventing violence

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… in early February at Western Michigan University as part of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society's Spring 2017 Lecture Series. Dr. Stacey Connaughton , director of the Purdue Peace Project, will speak at 6:30 p.m. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/37949

Researchers snag prestigious National Science Foundation prize

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… research and education and to lead advances in the missions of their departments or organizations, according to the NSF. … is investigating the impressive regenerative abilities of planarian flatworms. People and planarians both have … their brain and nervous system, explains Beane, assistant professor of biological sciences. Humans possess some limited …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43181

Graduate College Dean Stapleton named interim provost

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… Stapleton KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Dr. Susan Stapleton , the dean of the Western Michigan University Graduate College, has … . Acting at its June 29 formal meeting, the WMU Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Stapleton, whose selection was announced to the campus …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40857

WMU jazz studies students rack up five DownBeat Awards

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… Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on WMU won a total of five awards this year. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan … University jazz studies students continue their streak of winning multiple awards in DownBeat's annual Student … year's contest. The multiple wins put WMU in the company of such esteemed music schools as the University of Miami …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32222

John J. Pruis obituary

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… , a former Western Michigan University vice president, professor and secretary to the Board of Trustees, died Jan. 15 in Muncie, Indiana. He was 92. Pruis joined the WMU faculty in 1955 as an associate professor of speech and left the University in 1968 to become …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29904