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Special Olympics Michigan basketball state finals return to WMU
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… athletes as well as coaches and chaperones are expected this year as Western Michigan University hosts the Special … the Student Recreation Center. Unified basketball teams consist of players both with and without intellectual disabilities. Through a collaborative effort among Special …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/37900
NYC-based ensemble Wet Ink to perform at Dalton Center
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… University. The performance will be preceded by a 7 p.m. discussion hosted by Dr. Robert White . Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 for seniors and $5 for students, and are … or (800) 228-9858. Wet Ink ensemble Wet Ink's core ensemble is a septet of world-class composers, improvisers and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38038
Sew worth it—fashion design students use skills to craft masks for hospital workers
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… some have called sewing a dying skill. That skill, however, is now helping protect frontline medical professionals from … Fashioning Protection Carly McKay sews a mask. The news is hard to escape. Every day, a constant stream of updates … she says. "We were able to do something together that was bigger than us and forget for a moment about the chaos around …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/03/58737
WMU instructor, students team up to build a better bone model
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… up to build a better bone model Submitted by Paula M. Davis on Walcott, a master faculty specialist who teaches anatomy and commissioned the bone model, indicates where the ethmoid is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36967
WMU TV spot garners national honor
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… on The 2014 Communicator Award received for a WMU television commercial KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A 30-second television commercial that is part of Western Michigan University's Go West advertising …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/07/17435
Associate athletic director honored by professional organization
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… Submitted by Deanne Puca on Corbin KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Dennis Corbin , associate athletic director for medical and … Trainers Society Hall of Fame recently and recognized for his activities, contributions and service that contribute to … Luncheon June 6 in Ypsilanti. He also received the MATS Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 2009. Dennis Corbin …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16887
Greek Festival features Sugar Ray, Locash Cowboys
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… Festival Place. Gates open at 11 a.m. each day, and admission is free until 4 p.m. Admission Thursday, $7 from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Friday and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15844
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
WMU board to welcome new trustees, elect leadership Thursday
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… Mich.−The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees is set to welcome new trustees with a swearing-in ceremony … governing board by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier this month, James L. Liggins Jr. of Kalamazoo and Kara Wood of Grand Rapids will be …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/01/74450
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