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WMU board approves new three-year contract with part-time faculty

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… by a vote of PIO members Feb. 26. PIO and campus administrators began negotiating the new contract in November … some of the members, if their minimum per-credit-hour rate is below $825. Consistent with past practice, academic departments may pay …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5944

Science Olympiad to bring some 400 youngsters to campus

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… events will take place in Wood Hall, Rood Hall, Chemistry Building, Dalton Center, Bernhard Center and the … building for efficiency; classical biology, physics and chemistry; technical writing; remote sensing and others. The Science Olympiad is a national nonprofit organization designed to promote …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5682

Detroit Free Press calls WMU one of state's 'green leaders'

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… WMU was named the winner in the public sector category in this year's statewide competition. The names of the paper's … May 5 in a column by business writer John Gallagher . This year's winners will be honored Monday, June 10, during a … The Free Press announcement notes the broad impact of this year's winners, quoting one of the judges as saying, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/05/7130

Learn more about campus wellness resources at health expo

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… at health expo Submitted by Joe VanDerBos on The expo is open to the University community. KALAMAZOO—Western … Nov. 6 , at the Student Recreation Center's indoor tennis courts. This free event welcomes WMU students, employees and retirees …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10142

WMU interior designers bring home national honors

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… of University Interior Designers conference held this year at the University of Texas-Austin. About 40 people … from universities from across the country competed in this year's conference with winners selected by a panel of … design firms. Harper Sheri Harper Harper, AUID board publicist, won three third place awards for remodel under $50,000 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/10802

Western community celebrates outstanding observations in CDC study on campus

W Magazine

… University recorded stellar results in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Mask Adherence Surveillance … across the country to participate in the study, with assistance from public health students overseen by Drs. Robert … Amy Jessop, associate professor of public health. The CDC is tracking the impact mask mandates are having on campuses, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63785

New scholarship honors WMU graduate's life-changing mentor

College of Arts and Sciences

… on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—If not for a special person in his life, Dr. Hashem Akhavan-Tafti would have never ended up … at Western Michigan University, a move that he says "saved his life." Now, Akhavan-Tafti and his wife, SuzAnne, have … Akhavan-Tafti ended up at a school in Indiana, where he struggled to acclimate to his new surroundings. He contacted …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36667

Student awarded prestigious study abroad scholarship

Haworth College of Business

… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University junior Alexis Lenderman , of Flint, is among just 1,000 undergraduate students across the … major, plans to use her scholarship money to study Spanish in Quito, Ecuador, this summer. The Gilman Program …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46935

WMU center receives highest level of accreditation

Disability Services and Adult Wellness Programs

… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University's Center for Disability Services and Adult Wellness Programs received the highest level of accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) … the WMU center for the maximum period of three years. This accreditation decision reflects the center's substantial …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74684

Western engineering alum helps power next frontier of military defense in Space Force

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… and developing engines that could power intergalactic missions sounds like a job description ripped from the film … he says. "To be working on that kind of stuff now is really cool." It was the work Mostek did in Western's … doing really, really helps keep morale high and keep you chugging along." As a member of WALI, Mostek designed a system …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66119