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Miller Auditorium announces 2012-13 Broadway series

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… Miller Auditorium announces 2012-13 Broadway series Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on "Wicked" … Miller Auditorium has announced its 2012-13 PNC Broadway in West Michigan Series lineup. Taking the stage this … before that girl from Kansas was dropped into Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/359

Researcher earning impressive national accolades

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… Poling will receive this year's International Humanitarian Award from the American Psychological Association when it … its annual convention today through Aug. 7 in Denver. The award is APA's highest honor. It recognizes extraordinary … APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to pinpoint buried land mines and identify tuberculosis in laboratory samples. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/08/33813

Goats to be tested on WMU campus as woodlot management tool

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… Sunday, July 10. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Hungry for a better way to control invasive plants damaging campus woodlots, … an environmentally friendly solution to controlling the unwanted vegetation. The University will add Buba, Cinnamon, Diva and seven other goats to its landscape services staff for a week, providing the 10 rented …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/07/33450

Aiming High with the Air Force ROTC – Noah Bielat’s Sights are Set

College of Aviation

… choice, Bielat's parents swear that a future in the clouds was cemented by the family's worn-out tape of the original … Gun" flick that captured a boy's imagination.  "Maybe it was just a feeling," he says, "but I think I wanted to fly …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2021/02/bielat

Maintaining Aviation Excellence – Christopher Myrick Purposely Picks A Career in Aviation Technical Operations

College of Aviation

… airport to see my grandmother in Detroit.  I remember always looking up and seeing the planes fly over (interstate highway) I-94 to land.  They were so big and it always fascinated me."  …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2022/04/myrick

Ethics Center selects 3 engrossing books for spring discussions

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… on campus in the Ethics Center, Room 2072 Moore Hall. "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/12/50863

Sustainability Initiatives

Facilities Management

… to lower noise pollution and reduce carbon emissions. Self-watering planters In 2021, Landscape Services potted and placed 66 self-watering planters across campus to help make Western more …

https://wmich.edu/facilities/sustainability-initiatives

WMU trustees approve naming BTR road for the late Robert Jones

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… Board of Trustees unanimously approved naming a new roadway in phase two of the Business Technology and Research … of the late community leader Robert B. Jones . Robert Jones Way will be the name of the loop road scheduled to be … role in removing restrictive legislation on the parcel of land that will house the BTR Park 2.0, allowing the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44980

Motivated marketer

Digital Marketing

… For Elma Celebic, B.B.A.’21, there has been no greater reward than graduating from WMU. As a first-generation student … a college education can be.  “Both of my parents are war refugees from Bosnia,” she says. “Knowing everything … interacting with industry professionals. She was able to land internships in sales, marketing and supply chain, where …

https://wmich.edu/dme/celebic2021

Former Africana studies director serves as consultant on film

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… work contributed to a documentary film narrated by Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson that will air at 8 p.m. … to the prosperous, industrial north during and after World War II. The film features Tyson's voice guiding viewers … Michigan city seemed like a laborer's economic promised land of milk and honey." During the late 1930s through the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/01/110