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All Life is Learning – October 2023
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WMU
… Issue Director's Note Mark Your Calendars: Estate Planning Awareness Week is October 16-22 As we prepare to move into … information (in collaboration with WMU’s University Advancement team) about how you support your lifelong learning … including myself, retirement was an on-going goal. After nearly 45 years of employment, I reached that goal. After …
https://wmich.edu/olli/newsletter/october-2023
All Life is Learning - October 2021
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WMU
… In this issue Director's Note Happy Fall! The OLLI fall semester is underway and we have resumed some face-to-face courses. We are … KIA opened in 1924 as a nonprofit organization and now owns nearly 5,000 fine artworks. It includes 10 galleries, the …
https://wmich.edu/olli/newsletter/october-2021
WMU women aviators ready for start of national cross-country race
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… WMU women aviators ready for start of national cross-country race … the the deep south. Official race checkpoints along the way include Albuquerque, New Mexico; Midland and Waco, Texas; Arkadelphia, Arkansas; Warrensburg, Missouri; …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33082
Kecheng Li
Chemical and Paper Engineering
… Foundation Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Paper Engineering at Western Michigan … Prior to joining WMU as Professor and Chair in 2016, Dr. Li was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at … 17) Zhao Zhang, Wai-Kwok Wong, Kecheng Li, Xunjin Zhu, “Near-infrared and visible dual emissive transparent …
https://wmich.edu/chemical-paper/directory/li
WMU grad student's poetry book published, wins big award
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… WMU grad student's poetry book published, wins big award Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Rocha … after winning the 2014 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. The award, sponsored by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and named after American poet, writer, editor and critic Donald …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/09/26664
Classic air race with WMU aviators to travel through Kalamazoo
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… Vena KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Two Western Michigan University women aviators will join more than 50 other teams of women … instructor at the college. Karsten is a 2005 graduate of Onaway High School. "It's going to challenge me not only as a … over the handicap speed as possible. The pilots have the leeway to play the elements by holding out and timing their …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24905
Professor's documentary to screen at Waterfront Film Festival
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… Professor's documentary to screen at Waterfront Film Festival Submitted by … rivals, will receive its world premiere this weekend at the Waterfront Film Festival in South Haven. "Peace During War," …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16566
Fashion show puts Western students' design skills, resilience on display
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… by Erin Flynn on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—"My first sentence was 'I love shoes,'" says Chloe LePine , recalling the … delight she felt when her mother showed her a pair of shimmering ruby red slippers as a toddler. "I just always knew, at a very young age, I wanted to get into …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63636
WMU students place first at sales competition
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… Michigan University's Haworth College of Business claimed first place at the University of Toledo Invitational … in the top three in 2019 and 2018. This year's competition was completely virtual, with 36 schools competing via Zoom. The task was to sell 3M™ 775L Cubitron™ II Discs and the clean …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63547
Black mason broke barriers, laid first building blocks for learning at Western
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… before the Civil Rights Era, a Black brick mason built some of the most prominent buildings in Kalamazoo, including … Albert White , born just two months before the Civil War to parents who escaped enslavement, played a lead role … not herald his considerable achievements. Albert White "He was born in 1861. If a man coming out of those extreme …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74599