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Western's jazz program captures three 2023 DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards

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… Western's jazz program captures three 2023 DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards Submitted by Deanne Puca on Jace … Mich.—Western Michigan University’s jazz studies program is boasting three student soloist awards from international magazine DownBeat in its 46th …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/05/71611

University to honor its top four staffers for 2016-17

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… to receive the Annual Make a Difference Award. The award is the highest accolade WMU bestows specifically on … each academic year's Semiannual Make a Difference Award winners. As such, they represent each year's most outstanding … of four other prestigious campuswide honors: the Distinguished Service, Distinguished Teaching, Distinguished …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42945

Time magazine's Hero for the Planet to speak at Chenery Auditorium

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… Time magazine's Hero for the Planet to speak at Chenery Auditorium … Society and leader of the NGS Sustainable Seas Expeditions is the next speaker in the Western Michigan University … Chenery Auditorium, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. Her presentation is titled "Exploring the Deep Frontier" and is free and open …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35331

Violence Prevention

Healthy Campus 2020

… communication about sexual violence and related resources Increase help seeking behavior for sexual violence Empower … proportion of students who indicate feeling very safe on this campus at night from 19 percent (2011) to 27 percent … (2013) to 50 percent (2020). What we are doing about it Disseminating the WMU sexual misconduct policy to all …

https://wmich.edu/healthycampus/student/violence-prevention

Diane Dirette receives Scholarship Excellence Award

College of Health and Human Services

… Department of Occupational Therapy Professor Diane Dirette is recognized nationally and internationally for her scholarship in the area of brain … Evidence of her contributions in both of these areas is solid and exceptional.  Self-Awareness Enhancement …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/dirette-scholarship-award

WMU faculty member to discuss leading institutions at community breakfast series

Haworth College of Business

… WMU faculty member to discuss leading institutions at community breakfast series Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Lepisto KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Organizational behavior will be the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42117

Traveling far and wide

College of Arts and Sciences

… Traveling far and wide Contact: Kathleen Refior For many students, Western Michigan University is their third place, their home away from home. For Lauren LaLonde, her third place is traveling, exploring new areas around the world. LaLonde …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/lalonde-study-abroad

Reconnecting with nature

College of Arts and Sciences

… Reconnecting with nature Picture yourself, walking through the woods … surroundings through their sense of sight as humans are vision-centric beings. Dr. Sharon Gill, professor of … sense of peace and also connectedness to something bigger than ourselves.” Roughly 450 bird species have a home …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/soundwalk

Influential philanthropist, accomplished visual artist receives Western honorary degree

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Influential philanthropist, accomplished visual artist receives Western honorary degree … awarded an honorary degree to Audrey Morean Petersen , an international business pioneer, artist, higher education …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/70214

Adults Doing Life Skills Clinic

Occupational Therapy

… Adults Doing Life Skills Clinic The Adults Doing Life Skills clinic … impairments, cerebral palsy, brain injury, epilepsy, autism and other developmental disorders. The main referral source is the Center for …

https://wmich.edu/ot/academics/fieldwork/life-skills