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5 unusual facts about Western Michigan University


David Ede

He started his teaching career as an instructor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and McGill University in Montreal before moving to the Western Michigan University Department of Comparative Religion where he taught Islamic Studies from 1970 to 2008 and served as departement head at the time of his death in 2008.

Gilmore Car Museum

The collection ranges from the 1886 Benz, to the 1899 Locomobile, to muscle cars of the 1960s, as well as alternative fuel cars like the Stanley Steamer, and the Western Michigan University Sunchaser solar race car.

Josef Svoboda

Svoboda’s honors and awards include honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Arts in London, Denison and Western Michigan universities in the United States, and awards from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).

Note to God

This emotionally packed song, which brought the studio audience to their feet and Oprah Winfrey to tears on The Oprah Winfrey Show, was accompanied by an orchestra, David Foster and the Western Michigan University’s vocal jazz ensemble, Gold Company when it debuted on the show.

Planarity

Planarity is a puzzle computer game by John Tantalo, based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University.


American Journal of Business

It is currently sponsored by 10 universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, including Ball State University, Bowling Green State University, Central Michigan University, Cleveland State University, Miami University, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, the University of Toledo, the University of Akron, and Western Michigan University.

Charles Van Riper

In 1936, Charles was hired by the Western Michigan State Normal School in Kalamazoo.

Dave F. Sullivan

While earning a B.B.A in management from Western Michigan University, Sullivan spent a summer working for Ford on the assembly line at Michigan Assembly Plant, formerly known as Michigan Truck Plant.

Frasca International

Frasca manufactured training devices are used in all segments of the aviation industry, but are perhaps best known for their extensive use in many prominent college aviation programs, including Purdue University, Indiana State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of North Dakota, Louisiana Tech University, University of Illinois, and Western Michigan University.

Julia C. Collins

In 2006, William L. Andrews of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mitch Kachun of Western Michigan University collected Collins' writings and her unfinished novel and published them, with commentary and notes through Oxford University Press.

Laura Bannon

Bannon studied art in both Michigan and Illinois, earning degrees from Michigan State Normal School (now Western Michigan University) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she later taught.

Lawrence, Michigan

Werner Krieglstein, professor at Western Michigan University, University of Chicago fellow and Fulbright Scholar; lived in Lawrence where he founded the Whole Arts Theater, which later moved to Kalamazoo

Rob Laurie

After a four-year career at Western Michigan University, Laurie joined the Roanoke Valley Rampage of the East Coast Hockey League in 1992.

Thisbe Nissen

In 2010, she began a tenure-line appointment in the English Department at Western Michigan University, where she joined Jaimy Gordon, William Olsen, Nancy Eimers, Steve Feffer, and Richard Katrovas in the Creative Writing Program.

WVIC

WVIC is an affiliate of the Western Michigan University "Broncos Radio Network" and carries all of the Broncos football and men's basketball games.


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Diether Haenicke

On August 15, 2006, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to appoint Haenicke as interim president, immediately after voting to fire president Judith Bailey.

Don Cooney

While at Western, Cooney lead the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, convincing Western Michigan University to become the fourth university in the Nation to divest from South Africa.

Elson Floyd

Prior to that, he was the sixth president of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, taking office there August 1, 1998, and serving until January 5, 2003.

Fulbert of Chartres

Bernard S. Bachrach and David Nicholas, Kalamazoo Michigan: Western Michigan University, 1990.