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May 2009
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New brown-bag series links campus international scholars and researchers
 Haenicke Institute Dean Dr. Donald McCloud successfully launched an international-topics "brown bag" series over the 2008-2009 academic year that attracted 300 WMU faculty engaged in scholarly and research work in various regions around the world, staff and visiting faculty and scholars.
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WMU to host 18 faculty-led summer short-term study abroad programs

WMU hosted 20th International Festival in March

More than 3,000 WMU students, faculty, staff and Kalamazoo community members enjoyed a global open house at the 20th anniversary of Western Michigan University's annual International Festival March 22. The festival was a showcase of the music, food and fashions of 15 countries spanning five continents.


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Large, smelly tropical plant attracts WMU researcher

Specializing in a plant that can grow larger than a human torso and smells like rotten flesh, Dr. Todd Barkman, a WMU biology professor, has spent more than four years researching the plant called Rafflesia—an endangered Southeast Asian plant genus with an average size of up to three feet in diameter.


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Biomed bachelor’s leads to stem cell and spinal cord research for WMU alumna

Western Michigan University graduate Jacqueline Kueh, a doctoral student in London, returned to WMU to discuss her research in spinal cord repair and in embryonic stem cells April 8 to a full house in Kirsch Auditorium of the Fetzer Center.


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Joan Conway's classroom: Where business and ESL intersect

Joan Conway, second person from the right in the front row,
and former colleague Rebecca Jansen (Joan's right),
with their students at Daegu Catholic University in South Korea

Helping international business workers and students navigate the language of the business world is the focal point of Joan Conway's work in WMU'...

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