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Family and consumer sciences students welcomed back with renovated labs
College of Education and Human Development
… Fashion merchandising and design's new computer lab. The walls will be decorated with student work throughout the … cupboards and under tables. The computer lab space was previously an interior design classroom. KALAMAZOO, … Barrett taste testing during his culinary skills course. In order to maximize the potential of the food lab used by the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73254
Afrobarometer
Economics
… and 2009. You seek this information for Burkina Faso, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique and Senegal. The online data … 2: Select countries to analyze choose Burkina Faso, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique and Senegal. Click on See … data, there are three buttons in the top right corner. In order, they represent downloading the data below into an …
https://wmich.edu/economics/global-data-center/afrobarometer
Unmasking the stigma surrounding face coverings
News
… masks have received pushback. "A lot of people just don't want to wear them. They think it's an infringement on their … about COVID-19. "Things that are obvious now (weren't always). We now know the virus is transmitted by respiratory …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/06/59906
WMU students help show go on, virtually, at the Playhouse at White Lake
News
… 2020 were a stage production, COVID-19 would be the villain waiting in the wings. Set on upstaging just about every … at the Playhouse for the past several years, working her way up from an intern. Classmate Caroline Arana , in her … most cast and crew members are volunteering their time in order to keep the small theatre afloat and keep the arts …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60339
Food marketing students soar to second place at national university case competition
Haworth College of Business
… research about the area and demographics that the question was targeting," says Hejl. "Each member on the team researched in order to gather as much information as possible to begin … recommendations. Once the presenters began practicing, it was up to the larger research and preparation team to give …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/03/52530
Western researchers land $2.5M grant to accelerate energy efficiency in autonomous vehicles
News
… at institutions like WMU will certainly chart a path forward for a cleaner tomorrow. Clean energy jobs will help … They include technology that could be embedded in a roadway or other external source, sensors that could offload … off roads today. The reason is in the engineering: In order for a car to operate fully on its own, it requires …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/07/64919
Ethics lectures topics range from loving strangers to AI policy
Study of Ethics in Society
… recognizes that someone is acting in an “aims-irrational” way, then they should not bear moral responsibility for … professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware. His topic, “ Nature’s Best Hope,” covers simple steps … Veenstra Peace Lecture is titled “ The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74557
WMU, Cooley Law School formally ink long-discussed affiliation accord
News
… governing boards earlier this year, and it paves the way for Cooley to become the Western Michigan University … access, applied research and professional preparation in a way that will benefit current and future students, alumni of … working relationships with other educational entities in order to provide the benefits of being affiliated with a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/09/9428
Speaker to address today's changing perspectives on gender
News
… mouth" around transgender and nonbinary people. Actor and award-winning storyteller Scott Turner Schofield will present … He does this within an intersectional framework—the way that the topics of biological sex, gender and sexuality … moments of storytelling and allowing personal questions in order to engage his audience's emotional intelligence. Those …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/39114
About Scholarship
Seita Scholars Program
… criteria of the scholarship . The Seita Scholarship is renewable each semester up to completion of the undergraduate … one scholarship for first-time students at WMU will be awarded the one with the highest value. Recipients of the … youth must master complex life skills at very young ages in order to manage their lives as young adults; foster youth …
https://wmich.edu/fosteringsuccess/seita/about