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Take precautions to avoid getting, spreading influenza

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… to avoid getting or spreading influenza. "We saw an uptick in students with flu-like symptoms early in December, and we may see another wave in the next couple of weeks now that students are back from the holiday … infect others beginning one day before symptoms develop and up to five to seven days after becoming sick. Those infected …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/01/4067

More than 300 students to clean headstones for Veterans Day

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… business college's First Year Experience activities. The group represents 14 sections of the college's FYE 2100 course, … have paid and to become more informed about the diverse groups who have served throughout multiple generations," … service projects in the past, such as helping to clean up downtown Kalamazoo. But this is the first time that all …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/10798

WMU launches new effort to advance climate commitment

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… The committee will evaluate whether it is feasible to speed up that goal to the year 2050, with a commitment to cut the … carbon footprint in half by the year 2030. Taking such an aggressive approach, however, does not come without costs. … the new committee with Keele. "We can equip them to design and organize systems that eliminate waste, rebuild …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/10/55956

Researcher earns prestigious fellowship for brain cell regeneration study

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… Michigan University researcher is one of a select group in the nation to receive a distinguished award for her … resident of the United States. Before that, she’d held a couple different visas that enabled her to work as a research … those I mentor, so that I can encourage them to not give up." Reaching beyond the laboratory Her proposal includes an …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/12/50050

Aviation alum delivers critical supplies, personnel for pandemic response

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… Aviation alum delivers critical supplies, personnel for pandemic response Submitted by Erin … largest airline in the United States, Morgenstern has logged thousands of miles transporting critical people and … His experiences during the Great Recession—when he was furloughed twice by two different airlines—and after 9/11 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/58982

Turning adversity into opportunity, WMU social work student ready to make a difference

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… face injustice daily—a grim future for little girls growing up like she did. Al Muhaisin wants to give them hope. … her undergraduate experience at WMU, she was guided by support systems within the School of Social Work, Lee Honors …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/06/60157

WMU product design student helps envision games of the future as Hasbro intern

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… WMU product design student helps envision games of the future as Hasbro … moving online because of the pandemic, the product design and innovation major is able to work on projects that … but just need extra help on," she says. "We sometimes come up with brand new board game ideas or different ways to play …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60216

Supply chain team claims first place in case competition

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… Supply chain team claims first place in case competition Submitted by Stacey Lowis on Integrated supply management students—from left to right, Peyton Hurley, Alexandra Henson, Madison Dober and Connor …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66118

Prescribed burns planned at Asylum Lake Friday, April 2

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… the Asylum Lake Preserve  through May 31 . Plans call for up to 14 acres of prairie to be burned along Drake Road west … area on the southeast shores of Asylum Lake has also been designated for a prescribed burn. Copies of the burn permit … Council has hired professional fire crews to manage the upcoming burns. The contractor for the burn is PlantWise LLC …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/63807

Noted scholar's talk to focus on black identity

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… been adapted to apply to both racial and social minority groups. A follow up to the 1971 model was the 1991 publication of his book, … inspired identity discourses for other social identity groups, including those who are disabled, feminist, and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/22866