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WMU students celebrate partnership with county juvenile home
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… celebration included final reflections and presentations of the students' service-learning projects. The class made … participants, but also careful reflection on the importance of leadership and civic responsibility. "The students are … to follow a similar path," Malone says. "There are a lot of shared experiences among the students, and it's vital …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36750
WMU to confer more than 2,700 degrees at April commencement
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… toward students who are graduating from a particular set of degree-granting academic units. The 9 a.m. ceremony is for graduates of the College of Education and Human Development, and Extended University …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/04/15313
Services set for WMU historian Ernst Breisach
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… for Dr. Ernst A. Breisach , Western Michigan University professor emeritus of history, who died in Kalamazoo Nov. 25 . He was 93. Breisach taught in the WMU Department of History for 39 years, and served as department chair from …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36629
Playwrights to read at next Frostic speaker event
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… Bruce Springsteen at 7 p.m. Friday, April 6 , as part of the spring 2018 Gwen Frostic Reading Series at Western … Michigan University. Elaine Romero, Steve Feffer, K. Frithjof Peterson and Tucker Rafferty will read during a free … playwright at Chicago Dramatists and an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, has written plays that …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45913
WMU Theatre stages poetic drama inspired by tragedy
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… University Theatre at Western Michigan University will kick off 2017 with an intimate production of the poetic drama, "The Women of Lockerbie," inspired by the crash of Pan Am 103. The play …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/01/37227
Larry E. Syndergaard obituary
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… Larry E. Syndergaard , Western Michigan University professor emeritus of English, died April 15 in Kalamazoo. He was 78. Syndergaard joined the Department of English faculty in 1968 and retired in 2000 after 31 …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23396
Dina Bangdel obituary
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… the WMU faculty in 1998 and left in 2002 after four years of service to the University. She was a former associate professor of art. Most recently, she was director of the art history …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/08/41737
Former President Elson Floyd dies in Washington
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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Dr. Elson S. Floyd , sixth president of Western Michigan University, died in Washington Saturday, … to focus on cancer treatment. Floyd served as president of WMU from 1998 to 2003. His tenure was marked by a series of major developments that have had a lasting impact on the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/25003
New Michigan budget includes WMU funding for new geologic mapping
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… are all geologically based," notes John Yellich , director of the Michigan Geological Survey, which was formally moved … developed and used." Michigan Geological Survey University officials had praise for both the original decision to … the survey at WMU and the new decision to begin the process of funding the survey in a way that allows it to take full …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/32983
Video and communications firm owner next up in speaker series
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… Submitted by Stacey Lowis on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The owner of a leading West Michigan video and communications company … series at Western Michigan University's Haworth College of Business. Cynthia Kay , founder of Cynthia Kay and Company, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/18414