Director of WMU African center
honored for distinguished service

A longtime faculty member and the advisor to one of Western Michigan University's major outreach efforts have been named recipients of the University's 2008-09 Distinguished Service Award.

The award will go to Dr. Sisay Asefa, professor of economics and director of the Center for African Development Policy in the Haenicke Institute for Global Education, and Abraham Poot, advisor to WMU's Sunseeker solar racecar teams and engineering laboratory supervisor for the departments of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.

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