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Western researchers land $2.5M grant to accelerate energy efficiency in autonomous vehicles
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… 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
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… 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
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… 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
Research and Development
Seita Scholars Program
… CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS Research projects currently underway include the following: Examining Retention Outcomes … care and their coaches. The study aims to explore the ways students and coaches perceive help seeking behaviors, … help seeking is influenced by a coaching relationship in order to better understand practice methods that support …
https://wmich.edu/fosteringsuccess/news/research
WMU's flight operations chief named to presidential leadership group
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… Va., the group spent its first working weekend traveling to Washington for meetings at the White House and the National … says, is the second class to be named. The group, which was selected from among more than 600 applicants for the … to take their leadership strengths to a higher level in order to help their communities and our country." Kavalhuna …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/31048
Professor’s research in Ecuador helps create globally engaged students
College of Arts and Sciences
… in the nearly 30 years she has been coming there. “The city was once considered ‘isolated’ but since 1988 there has been … States who send back remittances,” she said. “The city was declared a UNESCO World Patrimonial site in 1999 … cultural frameworks of meaning,” she said. “For example, in order to understand how women who have lupus experience the …
https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/miles-ecuador
Pathways of Change: Natives, Newcomers, and the Waterways of Northeastern North America
College of Arts and Sciences
… Pathways of Change: Natives, Newcomers, and the Waterways of Northeastern North America Dr. José António … on waterways that served as trading and military posts in order to defend their fur trade from encroaching English …
https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/brandao-pathways-change
Campus compensation project heads for home stretch
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… categories to cover salary ranges and job responsibilities, was introduced earlier this year and is based on … match WMU positions to the external market moving forward, according to Warren Hills, associate vice president … the existing compensation system will be suspended in order to allow adequate time to implement the new system. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23445