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Bringing Japanese Religion and Culture to Career

College of Arts and Sciences

… meeting leaders of lay Buddhist movements, experiencing waterfall purification, creating manga-style art. Welcome to … be even though our worlds seem so far apart,” says Emily Warren, who took the trip in summer 2016 while an … became the topic of my thesis, a book chapter and now a project incorporating the Japanese diasporas’ relationship …

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

WMU celebrates opening of Business Technology and Research Park North, Ascension Borgess Cancer Center

News

… Center Submitted by Paula M. Davis on WMU President Edward Montgomery and Peter Bergmann, president of Ascension … at Western's newly complete BTR Park North. WMU President Edward Montgomery celebrates the opening of the BTR Park North … This recently completed land and economic development project is the northward expansion of Western's original …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/09/65768

Multimillion-dollar research center addresses construction challenges

News

… University researchers is busily studying new and creative ways to build better in an age of climate change and other … from WMU's Georgeau Construction Research Center , which was established in 2016 through a $5 million gift from Phil … the center already has awarded $350,000 in grants to seven projects being conducted by faculty members at the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/07/47955

Professor transforming aviation education using augmented reality

News

… for her transformative work in aviation training. She was featured during Microsoft's Mixed Reality Academy at Microsoft headquarters in Washington state late last fall and was recently awarded the … Spotlight: Microsoft Learn more about Brown's JetXplore project and the work of other mixed reality pioneers. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/45008

Business college receives naming gift for financial wellness center

News

… "We are grateful for Todd Sanford's leadership in this project, which will have a ripple effect throughout our …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44734

Past Events

World Religions and Cultures

… interesting and informative read! 2022 DR.ALISA PERKINS IS AWARDED THE WHITING SEED GRANT Whiting Seed Grant (1 of only … Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University for her project "Religion, Race, and Revitalization: The Detroit … Dec. 2 - "Religion and Revolution in the Arab Spring" - Globalization Brown Bag with Dr. Blain Auer on the Arab Spring. …

https://wmich.edu/religion/events/past-events

University Theatre hosts third annual New Play Festival

Theatre

… The festival combines resources with WMU's New Play Project, a class which is co-sponsored by WMU's playwriting … of Theatre Chair Joan Herrington says she is looking forward to the stories being shaped at the festival this year. … refugee Shedrick Yarkpai works to escape the horrors of his war-torn homeland and begin anew in Australia. But his path …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40410

2020 History Day Results

History

… "Lakshmibai: The Queen of Jhansi" (National Finalist) by Ishwari Bhatt, The Gagie School Junior Group "Women's Suffrage: … The Procession of Equality" (National Finalist) by Lila Baliunas, Hannah Hysell, Josephine March, and Mary Catherine … and London Pierson, Baseline Middle School "The Manhattan Project: Atomically Breaking Barriers" by Elliott Anderson, …

https://wmich.edu/history/2020-history-day-results

Old English Newsletter Subsidia

Medieval Institute Publications

… An English–Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary Compiled by the Rev. Walter Skeat, MA “Walter Skeat printed … of Old English Edited with a foreword by Stanley B. Greenfield, with contributions from Eric Gerald Standly, … and, like the previous one, it is a benchmark for the project. In April 1997, Prof. Jane Toswell, University of …

https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/books/oen-subsidia

Generous gift expands University art collection

News

… art collection Submitted by Erin Flynn on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Walking between rows of paintings and sketches sprawled out … to be staying blocks from the home where the collection was located. "The work is incredible," says Lācis, who … the effort to inventory his collection. She estimates the project will take hundreds of hours to complete. "Most of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/02/63282