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Leading USDA’s largest cotton classing facility

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… USDA’s largest cotton classing facility Submitted by Cindy Wagner on “Visiting Floyd was amazing. The building has much to offer and looks like … the USDA Agriculture Marketing Services cotton program as a project engineer, part of an organization that facilitates …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/02/70806

Kalamazoo Literacy Council, WMU celebrate 10th annual literacy symposium

News

… to reach their goals. The Edison: “EDucation IS ON” project is funded in part by the Michigan Humanities Council …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73301

Graduate student research aims to streamline recycling

News

… bins. Located in Brown Hall, the bins are part of a pilot waste collection program that includes the removal of … classrooms and new signage to help students separate the waste items that can be recycled from the ones that are … ease and likelihood to recycle. Results from Binder's project and other campus recycling research efforts will be …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/05/580

International robotics expert is part of Engineers Week

News

… organized by engineering societies to increase public awareness and appreciation of engineers and their work. … for more than 30 years and is the leader of the French project ROMEO, which aims to develop a full-size humanoid …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/02/4403

WMU named 'Best for Vets' school for fourth year in a row

News

… and Marine Corps Times noted that this year's assessment was driven by a focus on academic rigor in its analysis of … Best for Vets: Colleges is an editorially independent news project that evaluates the many factors that make an … program for southwest Michigan. The designation, which was the first such Veterans Administration program named in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11142

Community invited to participate in day of giving

News

… and alumni office. Hammer adds that students who want to learn more about WMU's giving day initiative can … groups.  New York's 92nd Street Y, the catalyst for the project, gives it a home as well as provides …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11653

WMU alumnus creates meaningful connections through storytelling

News

… a story company, and we believe that stories are a powerful way to create meaningful connections. We produce cinematic … coffee shop in downtown Kalamazoo called Civil House. I wanted to create a place for people to have quality … I had ups and downs as a student, and sometimes in group projects, I would emerge as a leader, and other times, I was …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/08/48156

Graduate student pushes the boundaries of traditional music genres with 'Tango Avenue'

W Magazine

… by a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, the project was nearly silenced by the crescendoing pandemic. Lockdowns … prospect in the process. “I figured that the only way to navigate the pandemic for me is to do what I am …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63905

Western leads NSF-funded, multi-university research into ancient rocks

News

… of Michigan and Grand Valley State University have been awarded a three-year, $420,830 grant from the U.S. National … the process by which dolomite is formed. The rock was formed in vast amounts in ancient times but sparsely in … of global warming. "The collaborative aspect of this project is particularly exciting," says Kaczmarek. "We've …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/09/65485

WMU students encouraged to seek spring campus sustainability grant funding

Sustainability

… Grant competition, which supports student research, projects and initiatives that have the potential to advance … cycle are due on  Thursday, March 3, by 11:59 p.m.  Awards will be announced by mid-April 2022. Collaborators expect to award up to $32,500 in spring 2022. Funding is awarded twice …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/01/66927