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WMU Athletics kicks off official NIL partnership with Broncos Will Reign Collective

W Magazine

… defense. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Buoyed by the leadership of visionary alumni, WMU Athletics is kicking off a new era of … of the classroom and off the court and field to think about what we need to be doing to develop students from a holistic … roots. And that passion that we have for the University is what drove us to form the collective.” They hope fellow …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/news/2024/11/wmu-athletics-nil-partnership-broncos-will-reign-collective

Third-annual AMP Lab Open House event welcomes STEAM-curious kids

WMU-Grand Rapids

… 4 Kidz during the 2023 AMP Lab Open House. Families explore what's inside the AMP Lab on a tour of the space. Kids have … building and constructing with Tinker Toys. Kids watch an EggBot translate their design onto a ping-pong ball. Kids … a fidget spinner cut by a CNC machine. The AMP Lab @ WMU is located in downtown Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/03/75134

WMU implements deferred tuition option for employer reimbursements

News

… employers will reimburse the cost of tuition. The move is designed to ease the path of mid-career professionals who … that access to the caliber of degree programs WMU offers is what they want, and a strategy like this would greatly …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/06/7681

Panel discussion focuses on cultural humility

News

… Panel discussion focuses on cultural humility Submitted by Deanne … toward cultural humility: A lifelong process" is the topic of a panel discussion Tuesday, Nov. 13 , on the … in dialogue around the meaning of cultural humility and what it looks like at WMU and beyond. This event is offered …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/11/50120

WMU professor’s research shows social connection leads to success in health goals

Haworth College of Business

… countless messages promoting weight loss plans, exercise programs and more. Despite the prevalence of … find ourselves falling short or giving up altogether. But what if you could harness the power of social media … completed by Song and Xu uncovered important data about what factors contribute to or impede users’ success when …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/01/74530

Dietician offers natural ways to boost immunity

News

… by Erin Flynn on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Right now the world is in the middle of a health crisis. A novel virus—one that has not been identified in … and Drug Administration, which means there’s no guarantee what’s listed on the bottle is actually included in its …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/59065

Alumna awarded Pulitzer Prize for poetry

W Magazine

… Her subjects include the early loss of her father, being raised by a single mother, her son’s drug addiction and living … and an incredible gift,” Seuss says. “This is never what I expected of life when I was growing up in a rural, … Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. Seuss was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 John Updike …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69081

Food marketing students clinch second place at national university case competition

News

… Paciorek of Grand Rapids and Erin Richter of Gurney, Illinois, took second place at the 2021 National Grocers … to share about growing up with local products and what they meant to us. We knew if we let our personal … stories came through," Samples says. "That is part of what sets Western’s program apart—students and educators …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63778

New education program awards credit for students' prior learning

College of Education and Human Development

… and experiences for various programs within CEHD. This is a great opportunity for nontraditional students to … prior learning assessment, students must demonstrate that what they have already known or been able to do is equivalent to what they would have learned in an equivalent academic …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/12/66459

Western students partnering with MDOT on pioneering bridge project

News

… Dr. Upul Attanayake, Abul Mazumder and Harsha Amunugama visit the bridge construction site in Detroit. DETROIT—The … how closely these assumptions represent the reality and what the real condition is at the end of construction. Then … the magnitude of load that they can put on the bridge and what kind of maintenance they need to do based on the sensor …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/12/66486