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University summit to focus on student success issues
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… University summit to focus on student success issues Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Dr. Susan … Dynarski KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University administrators and faculty and staff members are invited to … Center's South Ballroom Lunch will be provided at this free event being sponsored by Broncos FIRST and the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38392
Netflix co-founder headlines student leadership conference
Haworth College of Business
… succeed in their academic and post-graduate careers. "This year's Designed to Lead conference will be packed with great speakers and discussion designed to inspire students to find their passion," says Dr. Satish Deshpande , interim dean of the Haworth College of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/37943
Future leaders in research start at WMU
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… leaders in research start at WMU Submitted by Paula M. Davis on Read more stories about faculty-led, student-assisted research projects in the 2018 research edition of W … intently into microscopes while neophyte student lab assistants are consigned to washing beakers, uninvolved in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/09/49166
WMU team places in top 3 in national castings competition
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… during the AFS Cast Expo and Congress in Columbus, Ohio. This follows another top three showing of this team at a regional casting competition in Wisconsin. Team … materials,” explains Derrick of the team’s process. “The biggest takeaway for me is we made a fundamental learning that …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/05/68171
Pedestrian mall will increase green space, change traffic patterns
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… patterns Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Artist's rending of the new West Michigan Avenue pedestrian … Avenue pedestrian mall will permanently eliminate the existing roadways and parking lot between McCracken Hall and … become part of the pedestrian mall. The project also will disconnect South Hayes Drive from West Michigan Avenue and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/183
Foundation Scholars help special education students create holiday crafts
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… Western Michigan University's Foundation Scholars program visited with special education students from Kalamazoo's … King-Westwood Elementary to make holiday crafts this fall. Twelve WMU students bonded with the elementary … decorations and presents for their families. The project is part of an annual outreach and service-learning project …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36907
Dr. Michitoshi Soga obituary
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… teaching load in 1986 to serve part time as an administrative officer for what is now the Haenicke Institute for Global Education. He … to the University, but continued to serve as an administrative officer for the Haenicke Institute for nearly a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5512
Trustees approve new parcel sales in BTR Park North
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… and Research Park North . The 55-acre business park is the northward expansion of Western's original BTR Park … Avenue and Drake Road. The expansion formally opened this past fall , and the first property owner, Ascension … offer for a 5.52-acre parcel in the park. The corporation is a division of Bronson Healthcare. The other approved sale …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/03/67547
WMU engineers take steel bridge, concrete canoe to competition
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… of Civil Engineers North Central Regional Competition and this year hope to advance to the national competition. … and constructs a scale-model bridge based on criteria established by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the … The competition involves building a 1:10-scale bridge that is evaluated on lightness, stiffness, construction speed, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31422
Students encouraged to take sustainability survey
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… survey Submitted by Anne Copeland on The survey is open through Sunday, March 23. KALAMAZOO—The Office for … fee to fund campus sustainability projects. The annually distributed Student Sustainability Survey serves to measure … food options on campus, and reduce WMU's greenhouse gas emissions. Survey participants will be entered in a drawing to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/13697