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Bronco basketball player gets down to business, scores food marketing career
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… decided to give it a shot. "I really was just going to see what would happen. Because honestly, I think if I didn't do … allowed me to join the team—just a small town girl on a Division I basketball team!" She didn't rack up a ton of points … definitely have to put in a lot of work, but you get out what you put in," says Douglas. "I just knew it was going to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/06/68321
The American Dream: Matt Taylor Ascends Through the Airline Operations World
College of Aviation
… flight science. It all started shortly after he launched his days as a Bronco in 2007 when he began working at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport for what was then American Eagle Airlines, and indicative of why … of the DC-9 family that was launched in 1979 and logged 36 years of passenger service. Taylor with an …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/11/taylor
E.J. Dionne on campus for humanities center speaker series
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… on Dionne KALAMAZOO—A high-profile Washington Post columnist will lead off when the University Center for the … will be waiting on deck to tackle such thorny issues as what the outcome of the election means for science policy, … Chris Mooney, a science and political journalist, blogger, podcaster and experienced trainer of scientists in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/2283
Landscape Services plants seeds of stewardship, innovation on WMU campus
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… staff are hundreds, if not thousands, of plants saved by Christopher Jackson —a greenhouse specialist who could easily … up, we would gently take them out and transplant them into what's called plug flats," says Steve Root , a Landscape … staff inside Finch Greenhouse. "It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say there were 10,000 baby plants generated …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60122
WMU's Evaluation Center teams up with CDC to boost disease surveillance and response amid pandemic
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… WMU's Evaluation Center teams up with CDC to boost disease surveillance and response amid pandemic Submitted by … isn’t something our staff members have expertise in. What we know how to do is help our clients think critically … that’s needed to assess program quality and help them use what they learn through evaluation to be strategic with …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/06/59912
One engineer’s dream: creating something from nothing
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… world championships in May. Julianna Buck KALAMAZOO, Mich.—What’s your major? It’s a natural first question for someone … a simple answer. “One thing some people get caught up on is thinking that they need to have everything figured out,” … okay to try out different things and change your mind about what you want your future to look like. Just make sure that …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/04/67717
Top brass: Western alumnus leads trumpet master class as member of U.S. Marine Band
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… in 2022. "One of my favorite things about the Marine Band is some of the artists we get to play with. I played under … techniques," he remembers. "I didn't have a lot of faith in what I could do as a player." Proseus teaches a master class … that sense of consistency and professionalism that I knew what I was doing and that I can play," remembers Proseus. "I …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/10/73221
The birth of a new career: Externship leads to labor and delivery job for nursing grad
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… job for nursing grad Submitted by Erin Flynn on Cade Hine is starting his career as a labor and delivery nurse after … this was the perfect fit for me; it's exactly what I needed." Hine has been enamored with Western since … his doctor found a lump that turned out to be a rare and aggressive form of testicular cancer. Within days, he was …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/04/71474
AL Central Champ Detroit Tigers coming to WMU
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… Detroit Tigers] KALAMAZOO – Fresh off their first division title in 24 years, the 2011 American League Central … appearance on the Western Michigan University campus this month. Update (Jan. 19) The event is sold out. The Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan arrives at …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/01/46
Geography professor publishes ‘ABCs of Geography’ children’s book
College of Arts and Sciences
… Geography professor publishes ‘ABCs of Geography’ children’s book Submitted by … and expanded into more topics, Mathews began to consider what a geography-focused contribution might look like. “I … hope for this book is that kids and parents know better what geography is and that it’s a discipline that can be …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69847