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WMU's Haenicke Institute recognizes 47 faculty, staff and student leaders for transformative study abroad programs

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

https://wmich.edu/global/news/2025/08/study-abroad-faculty

In Memoriam, summer 2026

W Magazine

… BS ’51, Nov. 29, 2025, Grand Rapids, MI Ona Eileene (Pappe) Wall , BA ’52, MA ’64, Dec. 7, 2025, Grandville, MI Muriel … Robins , BA ’54, Nov. 24, 2025, Livonia, MI Willard Howard Mejeur , BS ’54, Dec. 10, 2025, Cadillac, MI Thomas Edward Fricke , BA ’55, Oct. 7, 2025, Torch Lake, MI Floyd …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/news/2026/06/memoriam-summer-2026

Walker Institute celebrates diversity in comics with month of Marvel-focused programming

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… Walker Institute celebrates diversity in comics with month … Submitted by Erin Flynn on An early "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" movie premiere, discussion with Marvel … and geology. One project involves growing "vibranium," the metal that gives Black Panther' his strength, in the form of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/10/69657

Graduate College names six Dissertation Completion Fellows

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… each and three half-year fellowships worth $10,590 were awarded. Each recipient also receives paid tuition during the … was awarded a full-year fellowship for her dissertation "Metal-organic and Supramolecular Architectures Based on … her dissertation "Reconceiving Self-Abnegation: Female Vulnerability as Embodied (Un)Sovereignty." Her dissertation …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/791

Michigan has minerals America needs

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… tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zirconium. • Platinum group metals: iridium, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, and … metamorphic rocks that host well-known, abundant and varied metallic mineral resources, including copper, iron, nickel, … supply of metallic magnesium from 1927 into the late 1930's was produced by the Dow Chemical Co. from Midland-area …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/06/54012

Business students vie for share of $250,000 competition prize

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… are high, with more than $250,000 in prize money up for grabs for the teams who make the best product pitches and … their business ideas," says Vaughn, who is from Mattawan. "It's just a surreal moment to not only be representing … I was a part-time helper, installing and sealing sheet metal ductwork in the summertime," says Vaughn, whose father …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/04/52859

WMU congress puts focus of world's medieval scholars on Kalamazoo

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… medieval architecture and coins from the Middle Ages to the way the Middle Ages are portrayed in children's literature. … exhibits A workshop will focus on the skills involved in metal casting using soapstone to craft pewter ware. The exhibits hall, which is a favorite venue for both …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/05/39837

Product design grads cap college experience with China trip, pending patents

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… the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, which was constructed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The students … from Western at the end of April and were whisked away weeks later for a two-week tour of China alongside … "We saw ceramic manufacturing, car manufacturing and sheet metal manufacturing for electrical grids," Schmottlach says …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/08/product-design-grads-cap-college-experience-china-trip

Igniting innovation: A record-breaking year of groundbreaking research

W Magazine

… of Research and Innovation drew in $59.6 million in total awards for fiscal year 2024, up 42% over the previous year, … master’s student A pipeline for the future The sounds of metal clanking and wheels whizzing fill the courts in the … trying to make sure that we have access to the same or comparable opportunities as the able-bodied population,” says …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/news/2024/11/office-research-innovation-record-breaking-year

Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in March

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… to be locally oriented and globally competent, culturally aware, and ready to contribute to world knowledge and … March 1 2017 Yomiuri Prize for Literature Reading—an awards reception —4:30 to 6 p.m. in 1035-1045 Fetzer Center, … Literature in the poetry and haiku section for his book "Watashi no Hidsuke henkosen (My International Dateline)." …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38374