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Chemistry associate professor to receive Emerging Scholar Award
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… Chemistry associate professor to receive Emerging Scholar Award … Science Foundation grant for $284,833, Mezei's team has shown that nanojars can reduce levels of arsenic and chromate from water to those acceptable to the Environmental …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43085
A full 91 percent of WMU grads find success within three months
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… success data for Western Michigan University graduates shows 91 percent of new WMU alumni are employed or in … school within three months of their graduation. The future is bright for WMU graduates. The 2016-17 version of WMU's … paths." About the survey The data is based on responses from a record 77 percent of WMU's 5,205 graduates during the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44397
Student awarded prestigious Boren Scholarship for study abroad
International Student and Scholar Services
… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A Western Michigan University student from Parchment will study Arabic in Jordan for the 2015-16 … a pool of 750 applicants from around the country. He and his fellow Boren Scholars are studying Arabic, Mandarin, … Alex Gibson A graduate of Parchment High School, Gibson is a junior working on a bachelor's degree based on a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/23417
Concert Band to present final concert of the season
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… 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17 , in Miller Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The concert will feature … Hanssen, "Dancing on Water" by Frank Ticheli, "Scenes from the Louvre" by Norman Dello Joio, and "Undertow" by John Mackey. For more information about the concert, visit wmich.edu/music or call (269) 387-4667. For more news, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31566
Expanded COVID-19 testing before Thanksgiving
Sindecuse Health Center
… and friends over Thanksgiving, Sindecuse Health Center is offering expanded COVID-19 testing. To accommodate the … no-cost testing plan for students, faculty and staff is still in effect. If eligible individuals have not used … including wearing a face covering, staying 6 feet away from others and washing your hands frequently. Make an …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/10/61786
Students to compete for $16,000 Multicultural Leader Scholarships
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… Scholarship competition at Western Michigan University from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22 , in the Bernhard Center. WMU established the by-invitation-only event in 2012 to broaden … vie for membership in WMU's Martin Luther King Jr. Academy as well as one of about 50 Multicultural Leader …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/02/13581
Dr. Homer Hartman Stryker biography
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… surgeon, inventor, and businessman, best known for his inventions, which revolutionized orthopedic care and … born in Wakeshma Township November 4, 1894, and graduated from Athens (Mich.) High School in 1913. He attended Western … into the University of Michigan medical school in 1919. However, he was required to pass a foreign language exam …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/14108
Jean E. Lowrie obituary
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… died Nov. 9 in Florida. She was 96. Lowrie retired from WMU in 1983 as professor emerita of librarianship … following 32 years of service to the University. She is remembered by colleagues and former students around the … A former public school teacher, Lowrie began her distinguished career in library education at WMU in 1951 as …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20588
Experienced administrator named Title IX compliance director
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… Experienced administrator named Title IX compliance director Submitted by … University has tapped an experienced higher education administrator to become its first director of Title IX … and provided oversight and direction for Human Resources from 2007 to 2012 in the absence of an associate vice …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28359
$800K grant to explore atomic level purity for energy developments
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… level. Researchers at Western Michigan University are poised to advance the field thanks to a nearly $800K U.S. … Department of Energy grant awarded to Dr. Robert Makin , assistant professor of computer science and principal … number DE-SC0025835, is part of a recent round of awards from the Department of Energy. Additional details and an …
https://wmich.edu/engineer/news/2025/01/800k-doe-grant-makin