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Any Einstein Can Fly a Plane. It takes a Special Kind to Jump Out of One – the SkyDive Broncos!
College of Aviation
… back -- and either artistically plummet or gently float toward earth. Members of the SkyDive Broncos, a registered … the planes, fix them, and -- to complete the trifecta -- walk out onto a wing and jump off of them. Other … -- just like in gymnastics -- who can stick a safe, precise landing. The first one was staged in 1958 and the latest …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2023/10/skydive
WMU United Way launches 2019 campaign with a $200,000 goal, children's book drive
News
… WMU United Way launches 2019 campaign with a $200,000 goal, children's … KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University's 2019 United Way Campaign is underway, with faculty and staff expected to … spoke of the history of WMU as an institution started by a land donation from the city of Kalamazoo and its dedicated …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/54984
Jason Anthony’s Allstate Avionics Aviation Ascension
College of Aviation
… of where he would polish his employment credentials. But it wasn't an exact route to Battle Creek's W. K. Kellogg … for the 2007 graduate of Gull Lake High School . There was a bit of a detour -- seven years worth -- when the … taken advantage of scholarship opportunities, which helped land the internship with Stryker, Anthony had a few more …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2020/06/anthony
William Doe Delivers – From WMU to FedEx Express
College of Aviation
… of the Western Michigan University College of Aviation , was born in Liberia and spent his first 10 years in the … in 2015 By the time his age hit double "ones," he was living within visibility of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta … and operations was not yet posted on the wall when Doe landed his first post-graduation position with Kalitta Air …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2021/08/doe
Eric Epplett's Enlightened Aviation Adventure
College of Aviation
… Aviation Adventure Submitted by Tom Thinnes on If you want an out-of-the-box thinker, then Eric Epplett is your … Eastwood's character in "Heartbreak Ridge" when "Gunny Highway" muttered that Marines are never stumped because they … role at Kalitta is to ensure that necessary overflight and landing permissions are in place for a flight to operate," …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2020/03/epplett
More than 300 students to clean headstones for Veterans Day
News
… the Haworth College of Business. "Service-learning has always been a part of our First Year Experience sections, but … right service project for more than 300 people to work on was a challenge," says First Year Experience instructor and … original Camp Custer was built in 1917 on 130 parcels of land, mainly small farms leased to the government by the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10798
Concerto concert is capstone event of music calendar
News
… one of four recipients of the KSO/WMU Artist Scholarship, awarding him a seat as a section violinist with the Kalamazoo … University in Florida at the age of 20. At Stetson, he was the William E. Buckwitz Orchestral Scholar, and served … has toured and performed in Germany, Austria, Italy, England and Wales, and has performed with the New World …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/311
Through community partnerships, Western professor highlights history of African American Muslims in Detroit
News
… because they have been here since before the nation was founded," she says. "They came in as enslaved … a west-side neighborhood through community organizing and land and housing development, to document the history of … important historic center for the Nation of Islam." "It's a way to raise public understanding and awareness of the ways …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/07/64682
Aidan Paciorek: Finding a career and community
Haworth College of Business
… College of Business has to offer. “I had no idea what I wanted to do. Luckily, I had an older sister who had been at Western as a food marketing major. Initially, I didn’t want to feel like I was copying what she had done by … my life.” As a junior, Paciorek doesn’t know where he will land after graduation, but says he feels 100% ready and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/03/75082
Pride and Passion: Mitchell Patterson Aviation Technician Extraordinaire
College of Aviation
… about her later. What Patterson saw at the museum -- World War I biplanes, World War II Pacific Theater warbirds, relics from the pivotal … and events, restored planes used to train for carrier landings that had been brought up from the depths of Lake …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2020/11/mitchellpatterson