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Osher Institute offering summer 2015 classes, trips
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… courses and three daylong trips are being offered this summer by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at … June, July and August. Courses and trips Technology is once again a popular course topic. One class focuses on … had on America's Euro-centric cultural scene, the social history of baseball, brain fitness research and memory loss, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24523
Details announced for Zegree memorial service
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… 4 p.m. Saturday, May 23 , in Miller Auditorium. The event is open to the public. The program will include performances … jazz ensemble Gold Company; Nat Zegree, Steve's son; pianist/composer/arranger Phil Mattson; and the combined faculty … jazz and piano at WMU, where he was the Bobby McFerrin Distinguished Professor of Music, He performed with the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/24055
Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in July
Haenicke Institute for Global Education
… opportunities in July Submitted by Korey Force on CELCIS teaches academic English in the classroom as well as social English outside of the classroom with community conversation …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40714
Trustees approve retirements of two faculty, six staff members
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… of tenure and leaves to three faculty members, and one administrator's return to the faculty. Faculty retirements All of … dates of retirement are: Loren Heun , master faculty specialist of statistics, 29 years, effective April 30, 2019 Dr. William A. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/07/17670
WMU lands four on Academic All-MAC gymnastics team
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… team Submitted by Deanne Puca on WMU gymnast Jessi Buis KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Four Bronco gymnasts were recognized as … Ste. Marie, Ontario; junior Michelle Adams of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; and sophomore Jessi Buis of Holland. MacDonald carried a 3.58 in physical …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15953
Technical writing group grants fellow status to Professor Thralls
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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Dr. Charlotte Thralls , professor of English, has been chosen by the Association of Teachers of … status in the 34 years since the program has been in existence. The honor recognizes those who have made … and only members of the association who have established national reputations based on their teaching, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47574
Fifty years of working at WMU evokes brown, 'golden' memories
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… of Management, and seven years later was promoted to administrative assistant to the dean. When the college moved from the East … women in the discipline at the end of the 19th century. Somewhat ruefully, she notes that "today's scholars cite me as a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18609
Still time to give to campus United Way, book drive
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… 11 percent of employee pledge forms have been returned. This year's campaign organizers have targeted a 10-percent … drawings have begun on campus for gifts that include a Discovery Flight in one of the College of Aviation's … who received a Millennium gift card, and Ann Mathis, mechanical and aerospace engineering, who got a WMU swag …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43489
WMU sees significant gains in number of beginners, out-of-state students
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… dramatic increase in its number of out-of-state students this fall as well as a strong overall surge in the number of … the number of beginning undergraduate students—to 3,179 this year, compared with 3,026 last year. This year's freshman class comes from 65 Michigan counties and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42774
Sales students honored in recent competitions
Haworth College of Business
… marketing challenge, earning $3,350 in prize money. Drew Davis , of Okemos, came in third in the team marketing … of Houston, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, University of Oregon and Texas State University, … team competition. Connor Anderson , of Grand Ledge, and Marissa Pertler, of Canton, placed fifth out of 40 schools in …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36854