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Hard-working students meet academic challenge
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… John M. Dunn. Raymond Enbody from Crystal, Mich., and Trista Kelly from Lawrence, Mich., won the challenge, which … participating in the TRIO Student Success Program. Kelly is a senior majoring in special education: cognitive … academic standing, with 51 percent maintaining a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA. Attending the challenge luncheon …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/200
Television and theatre star joins students for 'Next Stop, Broadway'
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… Television and theatre star joins students for 'Next Stop, … also sells tickets to University Theatre productions. A cash bar is available and drinks are welcome inside the … Nicole." Manhattan theatre and cabaret credits include "A Burly Night Music at Birdland," "Of the Wallem at Don’t Tell …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/44036
Budding engineer ready to create career opportunities at Western
First-Year Faces
… Flynn on A recent Grand Rapids Public Schools graduate, Jonathan Malone got a jump on his college courses through a dual enrollment partnership at … orientation. "Dual enrollment probably had the single biggest impact on my path to academic success," he says, …
https://wmich.edu/firstyearfaces/news/2025/07/class-2029-jonathan-malone-engineering
WMU, Cooley Law School consider formal alliance
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… (not verified) on A WMU-Cooley Law School partnership is under consideration. KALAMAZOO—Building on more than a decade of cooperation that has led to a number of … University and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School are discussing the possibility of a stronger alliance that would …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6237
Princeton Review names WMU a ‘best business school’ for an MBA
Haworth College of Business
… Michigan University's Haworth College of Business is once again on Princeton Review's list of best business schools. The education services company … College of Business is among an elite group of fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide that are accredited at …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/03/67482
Classic air race with WMU aviators to travel through Kalamazoo
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… Western Michigan University women aviators will join more than 50 other teams of women pilots June 22-25 for the 2015 … Air Race Classic, an 86-year-old, cross-country race that this year will travel through Kalamazoo. Sara Karsten of … the elements by holding out and timing their travel for better weather or wind conditions, for instance. The …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24905
Constance S. (Waltz) Weaver obituary
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… Dr. Constance S. (Waltz) Weaver , professor emerita of English at Western Michigan University and an internationally … expanding understanding of reading and writing and how to better teach these subjects. Her prolific and innovative … her professional career, Weaver wrote or co-wrote more than a dozen books. "Reading Process & Practice" first …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/07/48035
Leo Niemi obituary
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… in 1985 after 30 years of service to the University in what is now the Haworth College of Business. He started computer … chair of the Department of Business Education and Administrative Services in 1977-78 and as chair from 1978 to the … as well as the need for business graduates with better communication skills. Niemi also served as assistant …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/206
Focused on the future
W Magazine
… on the future Submitted by Erin Flynn on Drs. Doug Lepisto and Derrick McIver are co-directors of the Center for … wide, positive community impact,” says Lepisto. “That is why the center fills a critical need—it teaches this … such as Meijer, Harding’s and Trader Joe’s, has raised more than $25,000 for student scholarships and is operated by a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/11/62166
Public health students reflect on year since Western shifted to distance learning
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… health students reflect on year since Western shifted to distance learning Submitted by Erin Flynn on [caption] … public contracting the disease was low. Just a little more than a month later, on Tuesday, March 10, Michigan … 'Can we be part of that?' told me, "Absolutely. That's why we're an institution. If we can give these students …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63591