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Statewide summit to focus on college access for youth from foster care

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… Success is marking it with free events aimed at raising awareness about the importance of increasing access and … hours, and Foster Success Michigan will pay for the first 100 people to sign up for CEUs and SCECHs. Fostering Success … are statewide initiatives that aim to increase awareness of, access to and success in higher education and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15655

Gala to showcase enhanced relationship between WMU, Air Zoo

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… for the Air Zoo's May 16 Science Innovation Hall of Fame Awards Gala and Dinner . The inaugural benefit gala, set for … items from the Air Zoo archives. Tickets for the event are $100 each, and reservations are required by Monday, May 12 . … Science Center in Allentown, Pa., says the new annual awards initiative is meant to boost the local focus on …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15811

WMU and new medical school offer dual MD-MBA degree

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… in the MBA program throughout the years, and they always offer a wonderful perspective in the classroom. In … GMAT, usually required for admission to the MBA program, is waived for medical students. All students complete the … March 2011, Western Michigan University received a gift of $100 million for the medical school from anonymous donors. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/13776

WMU's Sky Broncos capture fourth place in national competition

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… in ground events to place fourth overall. The event winner was Southern Illinois University. Longtime WMU rivals … contestant at the event, while Chris Reichert of Climax was the Sky Broncos' highest placing male pilot, ranking in … graduate of Garber High School and is studying aviation maintenance. He placed 18th in Aircraft Recognition and was …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/24108

Campus series zeroes in on getting comfortable with uncomfortable conversations

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… and advocacy helped end the city’s use of corrosive river water in 2015. Learn how students can collaborate to … of color and their political influence as it relates to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Consider why it is … learn and challenge differing viewpoints in a respectful way," explains Jeff Breneman , WMU's vice president for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/09/61091

World's medievalists set to flock to Kalamazoo for annual congress

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… casting techniques. An anniversary year To mark the 1,100th anniversary of the death of Æthelflæd, daughter of … series, which is endowed in memory of Archibald Cason Edwards Sr. and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards , will bring scholars of distinction to the congress …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46742

Countywide Earth Day celebration set for April 20

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… chair of the Kalamazoo Earth Day Committee says the theme was inspired by the number of households in the county—101,000. "We want to encourage and celebrate the very many things that so … electric cars environmental art games for all ages nearly 100 organization and business booths live music and food …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/04/52948

WMU administration to launch employee engagement survey

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… commitment to our students and our University," President Edward Montgomery told employees in a March 11 email message … made to work here. Our last comprehensive engagement survey was in 2012, and the time is right for us to conduct another … will make the survey a priority and that there will be 100 percent participation in this important feedback …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/03/52385

WMU's Seita foster youth effort garners national acclaim

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… as the 2018 recipient of its Excellence in Innovation Award . The $100,000 award, given biennially, recognizes WMU for achievement in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/47092

WMU geology efforts lead to national recognition, two publications

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… three of the 12 papers written by WMU authors. The volume was published April 3 . "Paleozoic Stratigraphy and … distribution of natural resources in the basin. The volume was published by GSA April 25 . Barnes Kehew says the … a 2015 symposium in Wisconsin that was held to mark the 100th anniversary of a famous U.S. Geological Survey …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46965