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Taking Off with Tom Deckard - An Aviation Life Fulfilled

College of Aviation

… infatuation with aviation was sparked after meeting a group of pilots at the local airport in Elkhart, Indiana.  This triggered something in him, and it wasn’t long before Deckard … to his classroom responsibilities, Deckard was also a Designated Federal Aviation Administration Pilot Examiner for …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/alumni/blog/2013/09/taking-off-tom-deckard-aviation-life-fulfilled

2022 Presidential Scholars

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… at my high school and in the Lee Honors College here up until my final semester, so I am hopeful that my job at …       Julianna Buck, Presidential Scholar in Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems. Julianna Buck is … a career in the amusement park industry, striving to design amusement park rides. She will participate in the …

https://wmich.edu/engineer/inspire-presidential-scholars

Presentation Guidelines for Innovation EXPO

Industrial and Entreprenurial Engieering and Engineering Management

… by providing easily digestible information DOs for poster design DO  design the poster as if you were designing the layout for a … moving sequentially in a raster pattern. One way to set up this pattern is columnar format, so the reader proceeds …

https://wmich.edu/ieeem/innovationexpo/idguide

2003-04

Western News

… 2003 Story highlights: New legislative affairs staff gears up to deal with state budget cuts; Joyce Thompson book takes … sets stage for new memories; Massie book aims to trigger nostalgia, tell WMU's story; Group to review WMU sports; AAUP pact OK'd by trustees. Western …

https://wmich.edu/westernnews/2003

WMU teacher ed programs projected to grow 36% with Future Proud Michigan Educator Grow Your Own

College of Education and Human Development

… Kristi   VanderWoude , a kindergarten teacher at West Kelloggsville Elementary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. VanderWoude … announced by the Michigan Department of Education in May, supports 80 school districts in the state by providing school … education candidates.  The demand for GYO funding was significant, and, to meet that demand, a second-round …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/07/72182

Meet Allison: Child and family development

College of Education and Human Development

… we set the kids down. We play Grace's corner, and then we assign jobs of the day. So like the light helper, the teacher … things and do it all with children. So then I signed up for the classes in the major and took my first class and … University? You get to choose everything, where at a bigger school with like 40,000 people, it's kind of hard to. …

https://wmich.edu/education/spotlight-hoeksema

Meet Carly: Child and family development

College of Education and Human Development

… "During my college experience at WMU, I always felt support and care from my faculty and staff around me." What … your internship at KYD Networks? acilitating small group social-emotional learning sessions using the Why Try … and areas of growth.  Shadowing coaches learning how to support adults in creating social-emotional learning …

https://wmich.edu/education/spotlight-carly

Event to showcase global engagement opportunities

News

… Study Abroad program, a WMU endowment that offers grants of up to $10,000 to students who study a foreign language …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/09/1798

Meet Trey: Physical and health education (B.S.'12)

College of Education and Human Development

… take me to the next step and prepare me for not only an occupation, but I think for life." What is your title and role … the Grand Rapids Gold, the G-League team for the Denver Nuggets (NBA). Can you tell us about your career journey? I … Pistons. We had a nice relationship with them from 2014 up until 2021, but that's when they wanted to move the team …

https://wmich.edu/education/spotlight-trey-0

WMU researcher making groundbreaking gains in filtration of toxic chemicals

News

… plant, it's going to eat that gas and send clean gas back up into the atmosphere. And it's going to keep accumulating … you're targeting without losing or compromising all of the significant polymer properties." Building on this … student and graduate research discovery assistant, helped design a unique machine for high-pressure gas capture to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/09/72846