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Art Hop offers chance to tour medical school campus, view featured art

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… Art Hop offers chance to tour medical school campus, view featured art Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on The April Art Hop will allow community members to tour the … campus to the public during Kalamazoo's Art Hop from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 10 . The monthly art event, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23017

Acclaimed playwright to visit WMU for Gwen Frostic Reading Series

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… on KALAMAZOO, Mich.--An award-winning playwright will be the next featured writer in the Western Michigan University … read from his works at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 , in Rooms 157-159 of the Bernhard Center. The event is free and open to the

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19572

Tobacco whistleblower to highlight spring Ethics Center series

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… Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The former tobacco company researcher who went public with … five days after the film "The Insider" is screened at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 2 , in 1028 Brown Hall. Starring … intentionally increased the amount of nicotine in its cigarettes. The ethics center's spring series of lectures began …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/02/21224

Nobel Peace Laureate coming to Kalamazoo

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… Mich.—Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum is the featured guest at the Great Lakes PeaceJam Youth Conference Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26 , at Western Michigan University. Menchú will present a … She will provide her thoughts on advocating for the rights of indigenous people specifically, and working toward racial …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38913

Associate dean appointed for Extended University Programs

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… Extended University Programs unit, effective July 1 . The appointment of Dr. Edwin Martini , professor of history, … and facilitating external funding opportunities in areas of degree completion and  competency-based education. Ed Martini Martini joined WMU's faculty in 2005. Prior to that, he was a visiting professor at Deep …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25570

WMUK sets $164,000 pledge goal for spring drive

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… Monday, March 27 . Make a gift WMUK has set a pledge goal of $164,000 over the course of the weeklong spring campaign. Listener … to southwest Michigan and northern Indiana for more than 65 years. Part of the station's legacy includes being one of

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38959

John J. Pruis obituary

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… , a former Western Michigan University vice president, professor and secretary to the Board of Trustees, died Jan. 15 in Muncie, Indiana. He was 92. Pruis joined the WMU …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29904

100 years later, WMU's famed 'Black Ghost' remembered

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… WMU's first black student-athlete, fought racism on and off the field. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—One hundred years ago, Sam … ever encountered. He played for WMU for four seasons—1915 through 1917 and 1919— taking a year off to join the Army … Dunlap to the WMU campus, and throughout Dunlap's playing career at Western, Waldo and football coach William Spaulding …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/07/41428

Free concert features works inspired by 'Goyescas' opera

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… Western Michigan University's Dalton Center Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. This year is the 100th anniversary of the premier of the opera "Goyescas" by Enrique Granados …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35802

WMU lacrosse team goes viral with rock, paper, scissors video

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… lacrosse game canceled by lightning? Rock, paper scissors, of course. A video of the Western Michigan University lacrosse team settling its canceled match with the University of Dayton has gone viral, with some 423,000 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35427