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WMU faculty team uncovers racial bias in jury selection

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… difference in someone's life," says Dr. Whitney DeCamp , professor of sociology at WMU, "and that makes me feel good about it." … spend deliberating and the less likely they are to reach a guilty verdict," says Whitney DeCamp. "So, by changing the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/11/56344

Champions of the arts, WMU alumni Lynn Chen-Zhang and Charles Zhang win Kalamazoo arts council award

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… Champions of the arts, WMU alumni Lynn Chen-Zhang and Charles Zhang … is the 2025 Business Arts Award winner in the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo's Community Arts Awards. KALAMAZOO, … are being lauded for their philanthropy. The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo announced its 2025 Community Arts …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/10/lynn-chen-zhang-charles-zhang-arts-council-greater-kalamazoo-business-award-2025

Innovative Models of Care and Support – Study Abroad in Ireland & Northern Ireland

College of Health and Human Services

… Innovative Models of Care and Support – Study Abroad in Ireland & Northern … Mickus KALAMAZOO, Mich.— In 2007, Dr. Maureen Mickus , Professor of Occupational Therapy, created a unique study abroad …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/10/mickus-ireland

Department of English Ph.D. student wins prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award

College of Arts and Sciences

… Department of English Ph.D. student wins prestigious Excellence in … Morgan Shiver has been named the 2025 doctoral winner of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award, an honor …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/news/2025/10/morgan-shiver

Gaining his Western Wings and Finding His Way to FedEx, Jason Woo’s in Full Control of His Aviation Career

College of Aviation

… and Finding His Way to FedEx, Jason Woo’s in Full Control of His Aviation Career Submitted by Tom Thinnes on 2011 WMU … have shared the skies with a plane bearing an insignia of a country that doesn't share his views and perspectives. … of Philadelphia.  When Delta Air Lines beckoned in March of 2020, Covid short-circuited his Airbus 220 training, …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/12/woo

Cultivating community: WMU Future Teachers of Color partners with Parchment Public Schools for Halloween event

College of Education and Human Development

… Cultivating community: WMU Future Teachers of Color partners with Parchment Public Schools for … Mich.—Western Michigan University's Future Teachers of Color RSO hosted their inaugural Trunk or Treat with Broncos event, welcoming hundreds of students from Parchment Public Schools and their families …

https://wmich.edu/education/news/2025/10/future-teachers-color-education-halloween-event-wmu-organizations-greek

Dean Smith’s story of survival and sisterhood

College of Health and Human Services

… Dean Smith’s story of survival and sisterhood Submitted by Jillian Fraze on … my breast cancer biopsy results, I numbly took in the scene of my anxious family. My husband, Lang, was busy talking to … both in our early forties when we were diagnosed. Because of my sister’s diagnosis, I qualified as high risk and able …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/10/sisters

Western Michigan University faculty gain global perspective through University of Passau exchange program

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… faculty gain global perspective through University of Passau exchange program Submitted by John Sweeney on KALAMAZOO, Mich. — For three decades professors at Western Michigan University have extended their knowledge to those at the University of Passau in Germany. The global faculty exchange allows WMU …

https://wmich.edu/global/news/2025/10/passau-exchange

Ethics lectures topics range from loving strangers to AI policy

Study of Ethics in Society

… Mich.—Western Michigan University's Center for the Study of Ethics in Society has launched its spring semester … , Friday, Feb. 2, with two talks hosted by the Department of Philosophy as part of the 17th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference . …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74557

Ethics Center announces fall 2022 book clubs

Study of Ethics in Society

… Sandra Borden on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Center for the Study of Ethics in Society is hosting a series of book clubs during the fall semester that examine a variety of ethical questions ranging from segregation in the age of

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69336