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WMU reels in more than $700,000 in grants in a single month

News

… April, WMU trustees learned at their June 7 meeting. The awards pushed the University's year-to-date grant total to more than $18 million. Research grants led the way and came in at $452,823, with notable awards coming from … to develop and implement a professional development model designed to improve the teaching and learning of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/781

Fall 2019 SPLS News Round-Up

Special Education and Literacy Studies

… Columbia in early June. The title of the presentation was "“Ombretto. I don’t know in English how to say”: Using … NV in February 2019.  The title of their presentation was Teachers' Perspectives in Engaging English Learners’ … Factors and Scaling to the ACTFL (2012) Proficiency Model.” And at the American Association of Applied …

https://wmich.edu/specialed/fall-2019-spls-news

Strategic Plan

Information Technology

… 1.1.4. Create a professional development program and budget model aligned to strategies and projects to continually … system that tracks all information technology including software, hardware, and related information and data required for …

https://wmich.edu/it/strategic-plan

WMU engineers take steel bridge, concrete canoe to competition

News

… bridge team designs, fabricates and constructs a scale-model bridge based on criteria established by the American … to show off its final product. "Our program has come a long way over the last few years," he says. “I'm excited for … concrete canoe competition is named "Italian Stallion," and was produced using a "female" mold rather than the typical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31422

Global water supply crisis informs research of WMU professor named American Association of Geographers Fellow

School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability

… Global water supply crisis informs research of WMU professor named … for  Dr. Chansheng He , a professor and researcher of water resources management at Western Michigan University. … studying natural resource management and water quality models that could track the sources of the pollutants such …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/02/66997

WMU’s College of Education and Human Development honored with 2025 Friend of FCS Award

College of Education and Human Development

… and Human Development honored with 2025 Friend of FCS Award Submitted by Chris Hybels on WMU and the College of … celebrate during the presentation of the Friend of FCS Award. Pictured are (front row) MIFCS President-elect Leah … conferences and maintaining strong ties with us, WMU models for future educators that professional growth is …

https://wmich.edu/education/news/2025/11/michigan-family-consumer-sciences-friend-award-partnership-fccla

WMU researchers develop a mechanism to detect cyber-physical attacks on EVs

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… of its battery, cybersecurity experts at WMU are studying ways to keep you and your vehicle safe. WMU researchers are … attacks on your battery management system and researching ways to stop them. With a grant from the U.S. Department of … mechanism that tracks the differences between a predicted model driven voltages with the actual voltage readings as a …

https://wmich.edu/engineer/news/2026/01/ev-security-research

Awards and Recognition Ceremony

College of Education and Human Development

… Awards and Recognition Ceremony Each spring, the College of … for their great accomplishments from the past year.  2026 Awards and Recognition Ceremony Friday, April 24 at 5:00 … and Human Development. Serves as an outstanding role model, and practices the highest standards of professional, …

https://wmich.edu/education/resources/awards

Fast-tracking dreams into reality: Urban Teacher Residency Program a ‘blessing’ for one of cohort’s first graduates

W Magazine

… Residency Program. Alumna Koretta King-Jackson looks forward to seeing the smiling faces in her kindergarten class … her local public elementary and charter schools. “My heart was in it; I wanted to do it very badly, but I didn’t have … in its second year. The program uses a teacher residency model that includes a clinical experience paired with the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69855