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Faculty artists Ratner and Sims offer free recital

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… Faculty artists Ratner and Sims offer free recital Submitted by Deanne Puca on Sims KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University School of Music faculty artists, baritone Carl Ratner and pianist …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36041

Campus blood drive challenge underway

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… Michigan University through Friday, April 3 , to see which school can collect the most blood for local people in need … last. To make an online appointment to give blood at any of WMU's challenge drives, go to redcrossblood.org and enter …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22626

Operating budget and tuition for 2016-17 top trustees' meeting agenda

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… year and the 2016-17 operating budget top the agenda of items the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees will consider when the board meets at 11 a.m. … hear an update on the status of the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. The board also will consider …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33244

Horn Day 2015 features U.S. Marine Band member

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… Sergeant Cecilia Kozlowski , WMU alumna and member of "The President’s Own" United States Marine Band, is the … class and recital, a solo competition for middle and high school participants, a recital by the WMU Horn Choir and WMU …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/02/21562

Football Broncos earn first ever national ranking

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… Trophy for the third straight time was just the start of the Western Michigan University Broncos' Oct. 1-2 … just the fourth time in Mid-American Conference history a school has beaten two Big 10 opponents in the same season. … tied WMU great and former NFL star Greg Jennings for the school record with 39 career TD receptions. Overall, Davis …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35536

Helen J. Flaspohler obituary

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… Frostic, and she played a major role in the 1984 launch of the Medallion Scholarship program, a privately funded … College in Fayette, Missouri, Flaspohler taught high school for three years in that state before beginning a … the University of Michigan as well as the Kalamazoo Public Schools, before joining the WMU staff. She spent the last …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46613

100 years later, WMU's famed 'Black Ghost' remembered

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… WMU's first black student-athlete, fought racism on and off the field. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—One hundred years ago, Sam … with seven scored in one 1916 game. The Benton Harbor High School football star was originally recruited by the … Western if Dunlap took the field. Waldo told Dunlap the school would support the player if he chose to play, but …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/07/41428

Business student awarded patent for speaking device

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… process two years ago. "This patent validates the design of my product and my hard work to this point," says Floyd. … and began developing the speech aid when he was in high school. Last year, he participated in WMU's student business … to share my ideas with other entrepreneurs and obtain valuable feedback," says Floyd. "I would like to thank Dean Kay …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20784

Professor apponted to accrediting organization

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… Professor apponted to accrediting organization Submitted by … Accrediting Commission for Community and Precollegiate Arts Schools, or ACCPAS. Jory Hancock, Interim President of the National Association of Schools of Dance—NASD—appointed her to a three-year term, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/08/28034

WMU among 60 institutions recognized for excellence in educator preparation

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… on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation announced that Western Michigan University is one of 60 providers from 29 states, the District of Columbia and … in enrollment in these programs during the 2019-2020 school year. Western was founded as a teacher’s college in …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/06/59958