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WMU educators recognized for excellence in teaching and student engagement

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… of health communication or preparing future public service leaders with hands-on evaluation experience, Dr. … have been named recipients of WMU’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the University’s highest honor for teaching … excellence. They will be formally recognized at the Fall Awards Celebration alongside recipients of other prestigious …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/09/distinguished-teaching-awards-2025-julie-apker-daniela-schroter

Alumni spotlight: Phindi’s journey through WMU’s IHS Ph.D. program

College of Health and Human Services

… nonmedical vaccine exemptions. Her motivation for the topic was personal—navigating conflicting information about … development. From her first visit to campus, she knew she wanted to work with Dr. Kieran Fogarty . His global health … epidemiology. Today, she serves as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/12/phindi

Annual luncheon to honor human performance, health education alumni

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… for the professional accomplishments, contributions and service of outstanding alumni. Six individuals who earned …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31425

Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo

College of Aviation

… Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo … Paffhausen.  Request College of Aviation Information Harper was born and raised in the Lake Michigan shoreline community … offers flight training, aircraft management, and pilot services for customers throughout metro Detroit.  It’s the …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/01/apogee-0

Jim Tripp obituary

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… of Facilities Management, died Dec. 25, 2015 . He was 62. Tripp, a painter/glazier in the maintenance services unit, initially joined the staff in 2001 and had … but his health required him to stop working in 2014 while awaiting an organ transplant. The Kalamazoo native is …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29795

Future Broncos use talents to help frontline health care workers

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… much of his free time the past four years to community service. Currently, Barker can produce about 30 masks per … per day. “With the COVID-19 outbreak, everything that I was used to be doing on a daily basis came to an end. I found myself with a ton of free time,” Barker says. “I wanted to find something that I could do with my time that …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/59007

WMU closes campuses early for severe winter weather

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… by Megan Looker on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Except for essential services, this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 12 , all WMU … sports and sports club practices are canceled. Climbing Wall is closed all night. The   WMU Student Center will … 2022, Dec. 22—Impending severe winter weather and blizzard warning cause the University to close early on the final day …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/02/closure-february-12-2025

Philo G. 'Glen' Bishop obituary

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… Philo G. "Glen" Bishop , former associate director of media services and manager of technical services at Western Michigan University, died Nov. 7 . He was 84. Bishop began his career at WMU immediately after … in 1995 after 41 years of service. His first position was manager and chief engineer of the campus public radio …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28567

Services set this weekend for Evaluation Center founder Stufflebeam

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… Services set this weekend for Evaluation Center founder … what they set out to do.  Nationally, his evaluation work was done for organizations that ranged from the U.S. … for Educational Evaluation for its first 13 years. He was the founding director of the federally funded …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/07/41433

TLES professor awarded DOE grant renewal for $961,392

College of Education and Human Development

… TLES professor awarded DOE grant renewal for $961,392 Submitted by Chris Hybels on KALAMAZOO, … goals. The Family Resource Specialist provides referrals to services in the community and on campus to address any …

https://wmich.edu/education/news/2021/10/tles-professor-awarded-doe-grant-renewal