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… From Kent (WA) to Kalamazoo (MI), Jennifer Nguyen’s Medallion Journey … and immediate family were on the wrong side of the Vietnam War, which forced many of their peers to leave the home … a rock-centered eye on an aviation career — just an awareness that something had to, or was going to, happen.  …

… a northern suburb of Detroit.  Like many a teenager, she was uncertain of her future course in life, but she also realized that the best place to get something started was in her high school years. Hoffman and best friend, … Hoffman says, "and with a couple of online courses, I was able to graduate one year early with honors.  While …

… Professor explores the Vietnam War through music in interdisciplinary course and Bruce … that reads: “We busted out of class / Had to get away from those fools / We learned more from a three-minute … has taught the Lee Honors College course “The Vietnam War in Rock and Soul” for nine years. He immerses students …

… Missionary Magic – Tommy Pagawak’s Path from New Guinea to WMU Submitted by Tom Thinnes … is the best form of advertising and the most effective way to spread a message. On the other side of the world, … and Pacific oceans. Names such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali and Timor would be familiar to most Americans. In …

… and beyond. “I would be happy to be doing any role that I was given at Western, but it’s very cool to be going out … up going to Miller Auditorium and seeing the touring Broadway shows; Western has always been a huge part of my life.”   Like his character, …

… University College of Aviation with a degree in what was then known as flight technology:   On "9-11" he was in the Pentagon when the hijacked airliner slammed into … overseas deployments to Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.  More often than not, he was in command of …

… BS ’51, Nov. 29, 2025, Grand Rapids, MI Ona Eileene (Pappe) Wall , BA ’52, MA ’64, Dec. 7, 2025, Grandville, MI Muriel … Robins , BA ’54, Nov. 24, 2025, Livonia, MI Willard Howard Mejeur , BS ’54, Dec. 10, 2025, Cadillac, MI Thomas … , BS ’23, Nov. 6, 2025, Frisco, TX Emeriti Robert J. Balik , professor emeritus of finance and commercial law, …

… receive $3,000 to support three projects currently underway. Xiong, a Western Michigan professor of history, will use the award to promote a historical novel he recently published, to … novel will be published by Xiamen University Press. The award will also be used to support the publication of the …

… in southern Florida harvesting bumper crops of tomatoes and watermelons, an occupation the now-U.S. citizen still … a flight from nearby Fort Myers to Dallas, Texas -- and he was dragged into that 2009 experience almost kicking and … me," he wrote years later in a scholarship application.  "I was very nervous as I boarded the plane with my mother, and …