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WMU students clean up in Clean Energy Challenge, win $31,000

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… (not verified) on From left are VermaBioMass team members Brian Oswald, Andrea Lavasseur and Lindsey Truit. … Johnson, instructor of management and mentor to a number of the student teams. "We competed against teams that … on grid generation of electricity. Team members are Neil Hurley of Kalamazoo and Matthew Olsen of Escanaba, Mich. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/184

Yousef Alavi obituary

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… recognized in 1980, when Alavi was the first faculty member to receive WMU's Distinguished Service Award. The … Michigan Senate and House of Representatives in 1986 and became a charter member of the WMU Academy of Volunteers the same year. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/06/7363

More than 300 students to clean headstones for Veterans Day

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… of the college's FYE 2100 course, and 11 instructors will be leading students in the project. Students will clean … Haworth College of Business. "Service-learning has always been a part of our First Year Experience sections, but we began thinking about how we could structure the experience …

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

WMU part of $2.3 million program to boost diversity in economics

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.--Economists base much of their work on the belief that equal opportunity is vital to how society … profession has faced a persistent lack of women and members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. … to underrepresented minority scholars in economics can be attributed to the summer program. Summer training program …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/06/53730

Aviation alum delivers critical supplies, personnel for pandemic response

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… largest airline in the United States, Morgenstern has logged thousands of miles transporting critical people and … Hawaii. “With that said, Alaska Airlines has always been an essential lifeline to many communities in the state … 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

National Guardsman, a WMU alum, helps lead effort to feed thousands of Michigan families

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… [caption] [/caption] PONTIAC, Mich.—Feeding the growing number of Michiganders in need during the COVID-19 crisis is no … says Davidson. His team from the 1433rd Engineer Company began work at the Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank in … to hundreds of people in their cars. “It was really nice to be out in public and actually see the people who we were …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59294

Kalamazoo couple supports product design program with $3 million gift

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… make possible the new interdisciplinary entity that will be named for them. The Richmond Product Design and … Design and Innovation Institute The Richmond gift will be used for renovations to 28,000 square feet on the first … involved as well. "To create the perfectly modern three-legged stool that balances artist aesthetics, elegant …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36937

WMU graduates succeed

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… education.  Some interviews, a mentor counseled, would just be practice.  But Fields made quite an impression on … three choirs and an afterschool vocal club. “I love it here because the kids are getting what they need academically, but they are also being exposed to the arts,” she says. “I feel that this is …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46643

Western leading the charge in pioneering battery research

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… Cathode for Long-Life Lithium-Sulfur Batteries,” will be published by the journal "Electrochemistry … Communications." The Li-S battery chemistry work at WMU has been led by battery material specialist Dr. Qingliu Wu , … Battery Materials in the Netherlands. The group has been working to optimize CarbonX, the novel biomass to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/07/68591

‘Pay it forward’: Alumnus mentors others to plan for future, helps revitalize local community

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… personal investing and planning for a future that extends beyond himself. Jamauri Bogan Whether in the classroom at … to people about financial planning for their future can be challenging if they are living day to day, Bogan says. … budgeting, insurance and investments, all these things can be for 50 years in advance," he says. "When some people are …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/02/67101