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Longtime WMU music professor, internationally known composer dies

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… Longtime WMU music professor, internationally known composer dies Submitted by … Curtis Curtis-Smith Washington native Curtis-Smith joined the faculty in 1968 as an assistant professor after earning … to use popular music and jazz as an undercurrent. These are interesting pieces." Curtis-Smith's innovations included …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19619

Kalamazoo Arts Council grant takes WMU dancer to Panama

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… Michigan University dance major to Panama to explore the joy of movement with children in that nation's orphanages and … that dance degree. From learning how many different paths are available in the dance world to gaining a rich knowledge …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/24066

Campus community invited to weigh in on Valley design concepts

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… by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Members of the Western Michigan University community are invited to play a role in the selection of a design firm …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31635

Miller Auditorium sale starts Friday

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… through Cyber Monday sale Friday through Monday, Nov. 25-28 . Tickets for most remaining PNC Broadway in West … will be two for $70, two for $50 or two for $40. The sale begins Friday at midnight at millerauditorium.com . … 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Black Friday through Cyber Monday prices are valid for PL2-PL4 tickets. Offer is valid only on …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36590

Operating budget and tuition for 2016-17 top trustees' meeting agenda

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… (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Tuition rates for the coming academic year and the 2016-17 operating budget top the agenda of items the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees … and the Professional Instructors Organization also are part of the action agenda that day. In addition, those …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33244

Campus memorial service will honor Lonnie Duncan

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… verified) on Lonnie Duncan KALAMAZOO—A memorial service on the campus of Western Michigan University Friday, Feb. 21 , … to be among those speaking. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP to deanna.merz@wmich.edu or (269) 387-5103 by Friday, Feb. 14. Related article Lonnie E. Duncan …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/02/13439

WMU room and board rates to increase by 3.3 percent this fall

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… on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Acting at its April 22 meeting, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees approved a 3.3 percent increase in room and board rates for the 2015-16 academic year to provide continued support for educational campus living facilities that are both affordable and attractive. For a student living in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23355

Professor apponted to accrediting organization

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… Professor apponted to accrediting organization Submitted by … KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Nina Nelson , professor and chair of the Western Michigan University Department of Dance, has … been a consultant for institutions of higher learning that are preparing for accreditation. Nelson joined the WMU dance …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/08/28034

Mary Eleanor (Mariel) Neu obituary

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… Neu , associate professor emerita of art, died Nov. 15 . She was 76. Neu joined the staff in 1968 and retired in 2004 after 36 years of … creativity in others. The Mattawan, Michigan, resident prepared numerous students for their art teaching careers, and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36579

Alum's degree research evolves into new company

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… Professor John Patten on a new technology greatly advancing the machining of hard and brittle material, eventually … at WMU, Ravindra connected with 160 companies to identify 25 as strategic partners—a group that has a cumulative value … Today, he says, more than 80 percent of those companies are his existing or near-future customers. “I am very proud …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/08/34571