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Award-winning WMU poet will launch Frostic Reading Series

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… University poet will read selections from his new book of poems to kick off the fall 2017 Gwen Frostic Reading Series at WMU. Dr. William Olsen , professor of English and editor of WMU's New Issues Poetry and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42757

British author, adventurer to take WMU audience on a journey

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… to faraway places when she speaks later this month as part of the University Center for the Humanities spring series at … Western Michigan University. Victoria Finlay , the author of three popular non-fiction books, will speak at 7 p.m. … open to the public. Finlay From the ultramarine mountains of Afghanistan to the sacred ocher mines of Australia, via …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38802

Researchers snag prestigious National Science Foundation prize

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… research and education and to lead advances in the missions of their departments or organizations, according to the NSF. … is investigating the impressive regenerative abilities of planarian flatworms. People and planarians both have … their brain and nervous system, explains Beane, assistant professor of biological sciences. Humans possess some limited …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43181

James W. Dempsey obituary

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…   Jim Dempsey James "Jim" W. Dempsey , emeritus coordinator of transfer relations and a former acting director of the Office of Admissions at Western Michigan University, died …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28449

Ethics event will pair efforts to control criminal behavior, climate change

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… change will intersect in an upcoming event that is part of the Western Michigan University Center for the Study of Ethics in Society's fall 2017 season. Dr. Ronald Kramer , WMU professor of sociology, will draw parallels between the two …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43707

Donation helps WMU foster entrepreneur success in Kalamazoo community

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… by Erin Flynn on Dr. Khady Ndao-Brumblay was tired of the lack of African stories available to her children, so she and her … has worn many hats in her adult life. Now, with the help of a program at Western Michigan University, she's hoping to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/55256

Interim campuswide policy on sexual misconduct now in effect

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… on the interim policy. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—After months of analysis and measuring federal guidelines against current … a seamless reporting and support experience for members of the campus community who believe they've been the victims of sexual misconduct. The WMU Sexual and Gender-Based …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/21036

Werner Sichel obituary

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… Sichel Dr. Werner Sichel , a widely known scholar and professor emeritus of economics at Western Michigan University, died in Boca … in 1960 and retired in 2004 after more than 44 years of service to the University. His wife, Beatrice, WMU …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/08/48293

WMU jazz studies students rack up five DownBeat Awards

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… Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on WMU won a total of five awards this year. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan … University jazz studies students continue their streak of winning multiple awards in DownBeat's annual Student … multiple wins put WMU in the company of such esteemed music schools as the University of Miami and the University of

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32222

'The goat ate my homework,' conservation management students say

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… work earlier this fall on the humans and goats segment of BIOS 4970's savanna site. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Figuring out better ways to bring distressed plots of land back to their natural state is one goal behind a new course at Western Michigan University, and members of the public are invited to hear the latest thinking on the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43969