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Arts and Culture
Kalamazoo Lyceum offers communion and hope in first of four hope-centered panels
Mark Wedel
Thursday, January 25, 2024
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Healthy Communities
WMed program to bring telehealth to unhoused youth, offering treatment otherwise beyond their reach
Mark Wedel
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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Kids and Education
Learning Tool or Teaching Threat: Students and educators talk ChatGPT
Jane Parikh
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Longform
Healthy Communities
Assessing Trauma in Children: It's key to helping them thrive, and WMU center leads the way
Marie Lee, Encore Magazine
Monday, April 10, 2023
Longform
Healthy Communities
Evaluando el Trauma en los Niños
Marie Lee, Revista Encore
Monday, April 10, 2023
Longform
Arts and Culture
Kalamazoo Middle Eastern music groups connect cultures and people
Mark Wedel
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Longform
Sustainability
Voices of Youth: Why teens should care about climate change, and what's being done locally
Conner McBride
Thursday, December 22, 2022
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Safe Communities
Doorbell camera program helps 200 Kalamazoo area households find a bit more security
Al Jones
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Feature Story
Economic Development
Self-driving electric vehicle donation boosts research opportunities at Western Michigan University
Rosemary Parker
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Longform
Equity
Kalamazoo's unsheltered say Street Medicine Kalamazoo is an organization that works for them
Mark Wedel
Thursday, November 3, 2022
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Healthy Communities
Con el sonido del trueno: Estruendo pretende salvar vidas
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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Healthy Communities
A holistic approach is key to student mental health that can help college students stay in school
Maggie Drew and Haley Steinkamp
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Feature Story
Healthy Communities
Un enfoque holistico es clave para la salud mental y la retencion de los estudiantes
Maggie Drew y Haley Steinkamp
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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Kids and Education
WMU tells first step of how largest financial gift to public school will benefit students
Al Jones
Friday, December 10, 2021
Feature Story
Entrepreneurship
Get scared: A visit to Psych Ward Haunted House
Mahari Wilson
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Longform
Arts and Culture
Community celebrates couple with events as WMU Libraries acquire the archive of Small and Stewart
Mark Wedel
Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Economic Development
As pilot shortage grows, WMU College of Aviation expansion expected to be completed later this year
Jane Simons
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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Sustainability
At Asylum Lake Preserve in Kalamazoo, humans work to outsmart beavers — a welcome nuisance
Rosemary Parker
Monday, January 4, 2021
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Healthy Communities
Medical school partners with Kalamazoo-based IONTOX to develop COVID-19 antibody test
Emily Monacelli, WMed Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
Monday, July 6, 2020
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WMU trustees freeze tuition, housing costs in response to pandemic. Glen Oaks offers students grants
Second Wave Media
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
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