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Art grad ready to help others find healing through her craft

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… her craft Submitted by Erin Flynn on Sharmane Flanders is graduating with an art degree and plans to pursue a career as an art therapist. As an art therapist, Flanders hopes to help people better express themselves …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73705

WMU gets final OK to offer classes in Punta Gorda and Tampa

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… in Florida. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Higher Learning Commission has approved Western Michigan University's request to offer programs at two locations in Florida. The HLC's decision follows last year's approval by Florida’s Commission for Independent Education to grant provisional …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38888

Alumnus surfs the turbulence to success

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… Denomme, BS '00 DETROIT— Steve Denomme’s movie script for his storied aviation career could be “The Good, the Bad and … he learned the program was opening a new facility at Kellogg Field in Battle Creek, Michigan. “I immediately loved the … Although he was called back to finish training, he was furloughed by Mesaba that October. He worked as an instructor …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/05/71774

Politics played a role in pandemic shelter-in-place orders, WMU researchers find

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… the spread of COVID-19 have drawn both applause and criticism. Schools, restaurants, daycares and gyms closed and many … to keep the coronavirus at bay, a new study by an interdisciplinary team at Western Michigan University finds … Daria Blinova poured through data to analyze political decision-making by governors in all 50 states in order to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/10/61626

Longtime jazz educator Steve Zegree passes away at 61

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… professor of music and mentor to Gold Company, which under his direction became one of the nation's leading collegiate vocal jazz groups. During his years at WMU, he was the Bobby McFerrin Distinguished Professor of Music and toured internationally …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22402

Robert 'Bob' L. Smith obituary

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… 31 years of service to the University. Survivors include his wife, Dr. Carol Payne Smith, WMU professor emeritus of teaching, learning and leadership. He put his retirement on hiatus in 2004-05 to direct WMU's Master of Fine Arts program in performing arts administration, which was the first program of its kind in the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31808

Jean E. Lowrie obituary

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… 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

Professor's documentary to screen at Waterfront Film Festival

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… (not verified) on From left: Wilder, Machiorlatti and Harris KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A documentary by a Western Michigan … two former gang rivals, will receive its world premiere this weekend at the Waterfront Film Festival in South Haven. … footage. In all, she worked on the project for a year, logging well over 100 hours. "It was really a great …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16566

Carls Foundation awards $314,400 to help children hear

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… and language development. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 98 percent of infants in the … evaluation. Infants who do not have access to early diagnosis and intervention are at risk for delays in auditory, speech and language development. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/08/1243

Native seed project helps WMU get back to its roots

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… the Western Michigan University community returned to this fall came courtesy of Landscape Services. They readied … are sprouted in Finch and planted on campus as well as distributed to nonprofits and other organizations in the … restoration sites around campus. Greenhouse greenery Christopher Jackson , greenhouse specialist in the biological …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/54808