March Event

Charging and Powering the Future with Alternative Energy

Friends of the WMU Libraries' Alternative Energy Series

As current sources of nonrenewable energy continue to cause problems, researchers are stepping up their interest and examination of alternative energy. Two such researchers are here at Western and will be sharing their knowledge and experience working with the Solar and Plug-In Cars.

Event Information

Engineering Campus Lecture Hall D109
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
5:00 - 6:30pm

Directions From WMU Main Campus: From the corner of Stadium Dr. and Howard, go west on Stadium Dr. until you come to Drake Rd. Turn left onto Drake and continue south through the next light (at Parkview Ave.) and into the WMU Parkview Campus. You will now be on Campus Drive. Take a left onto Engineering Way and follow it until you reach the parking structure. Free parking is available in both ramps for the event. You do not need a sticker. The Lecture hall is near the main entrance of the building on the bottom floor.

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April Event

A Behind-the-Scenes Tour
of The Gerald R. Ford Museum

Led by James Kratsas, Deputy Director

The Gerald R. Ford Museum galleries feature hands-on, interactive, video, and holographic displays that make visitors "participants" in history.

The exhibits enable visitors to travel by video with President Ford and Secretary Kissinger to various hot spots around the globe; take a holographic tour of the Ford White House; and experience a day in the Oval Office through a sound and light show. A Watergate gallery includes a six-minute, multi-screen history beginning with the June 1972 break-in -- plus the actual burglary tools on display. An interactive Cabinet Room allows visitors to take part in Presidential decision-making.

Event Information

Saturday, April 10, 2010
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Carpools will leave Kalmazoo at 12:45 p.m.

Transportation: Car-pooling from K-Mart plaza on Stadium at Drake, behind the Big Boy Restaurant. You are free to drive on your own

Fees: Free, if 20 people attend, otherwise $7 per person

RSVP to Kathy Gerow
Or by phone: (269) 387-5202 by March 24, 2010.
Indicate number of persons and whether carpooling

Directions From WMU Main Campus: Visit the Gerald R. Ford Museum for a map and directions. For people coming from the south, take US 131 north to the Pearl Street exit. Turn right (East) onto Pearl for about a block, to the Museum entrance. Go north into the parking lot.

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