Graduate College Events

Graduate Research and Creative Scholar, and Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Awards Reception

Date:     Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time:     5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location:  Bernhard Center South Ballroom

The Graduate College, the Graduate Studies Council, and the Graduate Student Advisory Committee are proud to announce the 2011–12 recipients of the Graduate Research and Creative Scholar, and the Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Awards at Western Michigan University

[ Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award Recipients ]

[ Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award Recipients ]

The University community is invited to attend a program and reception to honor the Graduate Research and Creative Scholars, and the Graduate Teaching Effectiveness award recipients on Thursday, April 26, 2012, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Bernhard Center. The program will include presentations by student award winners.

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September

WMU to Host 2012  MCAA and ANHS Joint Conference

September 21 to 23 at the WMU Fetzer Center

The 61st Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and the 2nd Himalayan Studies Conference of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies is planned for September 21-23, 2012 in WMU’s Fetzer Center.

The conference is open to all academic disciplines. The theme of the MCAA conference is global and international education, but papers from all fields will be considered. Of particular interest are panel and paper proposals from faculty and graduate students that cross regional, temporal, linguistic, disciplinary or other boundaries. WMU graduate students are encouraged to attend and will be reimbursed for conference registration fees after the event.

The conference organizers are Dr. Stephen Covell, WMU’s Mary Meader (Associate) Professor of Comparative Religion and the MCAA 2012 program chair, and Dr. Mahendra Lawoti, a WMU professor of political science.

In connection with the conference, a call for abstracts for papers has been announced. Proposals with abstracts are due to the ANHS Friday, May 18 and the MCAA proposal submission deadline had been extended to Friday, June 15. Acceptance will be announced by the end of July. Proposals should be submitted via each organization’s website:

MCAA: http://international.wmich.edu/mcaa

ANHS: http://anhs-himalaya.org/hsc/

For more information about the conference, write hige-mcaa-anhs@wmich.edu, or call Karen Smith at (269) 387-3780.

Follow this conference on facebook by joining the confrence discussion group “Joint Conference 2012” or by visiting: http://www.facebook.com/JointConference2012.