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Western alumnus receives Maryland's highest honor for geography education
College of Education and Human Development
… , B.A.'06, is the recipient of the 2024 James B. Binko Award for Outstanding Geography Educator-of-the-Year. … by the Maryland Geographic Alliance , this prestigious award honors teachers who have significantly advanced … focused within the state and create a map-centered research project. His school has become the leading producer of …
https://wmich.edu/education/news/2024/08/education-history-alum-winner-maryland-geography-teaching-award
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