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Learning and Leading: Global Leaders use their skills to help refugees

W Magazine

… "It still shakes me to my core thinking about what they've gone through and how they are just trying to have a better … he'd changed. "My skin was a different color from all my time in the sun. I had long hair. I was in shape from …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/01/57378

Finding opportunity amid crisis: Preparing teachers for a strong future

W Magazine

… to students and offering mobile Wi-Fi in some areas. What to do with the technology made available, however, was … their teaching experiences during a pandemic, because they got to process it all with each other, with me and with … in pre-K through 12 settings during these unprecedented times, but I asked about literacy specifically and about …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63902

Paper plane prowess propels Western aviation student to international competition

News

… University student earned national champion status by going back to the basics: making paper airplanes. Evin … of Aviation . Cooper broke the national record for airtime at the Red Bull Paper Wings National Finals in Dayton, … could," he says. "Not many people get to say they got to do what I did. It's a story I'll be able to tell for the rest …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/05/68114

SPADA faculty and IHS Ph.D. students publish chapter on exercise addiction

College of Health and Human Services

… of the Addiction Studies Program (SPADA), along with part-time instructors and doctoral students Lyndsay Nuyen and … rehabilitation center, presented by Zielke, a part-time instructor. The presentation was recorded and will be …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/07/spada-faculty-ihs-phd-students-publish

WMU horn player places highly in international competition

News

… Lin Foulk , associate professor of music and Clifton's longtime teacher and mentor at WMU. Foulk directs the Western … the outcome overall. "There were a few things that didn't go as I wanted, but in hindsight it was very successful," he … a mock audition, may have been good preparation for what's ahead for this new alumnus of the WMU School of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/08/8668

Bronco Bash returns to WMU with celebration of new student center

News

… for us to support our students." WMU President Edward Montgomery will officially kick off the festivities by firing … "We're so excited to give the campus community a taste of what our Greek orgs are all about, and step and stroll … on all kinds of free goodies, Bash is more than just a good time, says Wayne Bond , assistant director for campus …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/08/72501

Students take on industry challenges for their capstone projects

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… Nate Neubauer, Bridget Arnesen, and Paige Roden pictured at Good Trade Depot.   KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Each fall and spring … some of the amazing work engineering Broncos have been up to.    View all projects and the schedule by department. … and needs of a paper mill are specialized and requires real time adjustments,” he says. “These are the challenges …

https://wmich.edu/engineer/news/2025/04/senior-engineering-design-spring-2025

Figures of speech: Instructor helps Kalamazoo TV anchor recover his voice

W Magazine

… a series of false starts with specialists who weren’t a good fit for him, Dominianni met Heidi Douglas-Vogley, a … inspired him, and one of the smallest TV markets at the time in the United States—Alpena, Michigan—gave him his … She couldn’t have been more understanding. She said ‘I know what you’ve been going through. I had a similar speech …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59637

Product design alumni on leading edge of innovation

W Magazine

… “He called me into his office the next day and asked what I did (in school). That led to a meeting with the vice … from day one was super important, because sometimes school can become really detached from what the real, … in their respective industries.  Bobby Snell's future has gone to the dogs—successfully—with jobs in the pet care …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73419

Balance leads to MBA for Erica Nowicki

Haworth College of Business

… University’s Haworth College of Business. Working full-time with the federal government at the Defense Logistics Agency while being a … satisfied with my choice because I was able to execute what I was learning to my work and could also draw from my …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73613