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Decline in pollinators prompts WMU staffers to build them a home
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… species, primarily Michigan's native bees, reproduce. Their foray into the life cycles and importance of these dwindling creatures prompted the duo to create a home for them at WMU, with valuable construction assistance from … bees like leafcutter and mason bees are docile, unless aggressively provoked, and have a mild venom so there's …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/08/54576
National organization recognizes WMU advertising and promotion students
Haworth College of Business
… Most Promising Multicultural Students Program for 2018. This is the third consecutive year that WMU … Monroe, are two of only 50 recipients of the annual award for the nation's top multicultural college seniors with … Garcia and Gutierrez-Spencer were both nominated for the program by Dr. Karen Lancendorfer , associate …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/45004
University Theatre presents musical comedy 'Lucky Stiff'
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… Theatre at the Gilmore Theatre Complex on Main Campus. Performances Friday, Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, 7:30 … farce follows Harry Witherspoon, a hapless English shoe salesman who gets a fateful telegram announcing that his … Dominique Nate Reiders as The Body Katie Snyder as Rita Miggie Snyder as Annabel Glick Maikel Ragel Wilson as Luigi …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44736
WMU to hold Foster Care Awareness Walk
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… May 20 , on WMU's Kanley Track. This is the second year for the annual 5K event, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The walk/run is an effort to spread awareness about foster care and fundraise for …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/04/39598
Empower Success
Bronson School of Nursing
… Empower Success The Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant, through the U.S. Health Resources and … Administration, funds the Empowering Nursing Students for Success project. Empower Success targets students from … the following components: Scholarships and stipends for students totaling $225,000 per year Academic and peer …
https://wmich.edu/nursing/empower
WMU trustees approve new three-year contract with AFSCME
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… will be provided. In the second year, the contract calls for increases of 1.75 to 2.5 percent, and increases between 2 and 2.5 percent go into effect for the third year of the contract. Other elements of the … authority to negotiate terms with the city of Kalamazoo for a temporary easement to University property. The …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/08/48598
Business pitch competition open to WMU student entrepreneurs
Haworth College of Business
… across campus are invited to present their business pitches for cash prizes totaling $4,000 at the annual Pitch … a three-minute pitch about an innovative business idea for an audience of potential investors. Students will be … prizes will be awarded to the top four finishers: $1,700 for first place; $1,200 for second place; $800 for third …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38296
Top names in investigative medicine part of new seminar series
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… Medicine, a new monthly research seminar series for the 2017-18 academic year, is now underway at the … speak on "New Subsets, New Checkpoints: Expanding Roles for Tbet+ B Cells in Health and Disease." Lunch will be … the Committee on Molecular Medicine/MPMM. Feb. 7: Dr. Gregg Silverman, medical doctor and professor, Department of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43455
Author, film critic and New Yorker staff member David Denby to visit campus
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… discourse. The event is jointly sponsored by WMU's Center for the Humanities and its Center for the Study of Ethics in Society. Denby Denby Denby, a New … Journalism School and the communication program at Stanford University. He was a movie critic for 45 years for such …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45089
Longtime WMU prof, administrator honored as coaching educator
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… administrator has been honored by a national organization for a lifetime of work as a coach educator and developer. The United States Center for Coaching Excellence has awarded Dr. Jody Brylinsky , associate provost for institutional effectiveness and a longtime professor of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/06/40382