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1 week ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Below is a transcript of our conversation with Dr. Patty Williamson: David Nicholas:I'm David Nicholas and this is Central Focus, a weekly look at research activity and innovative work from Central Michigan University students and faculty. We are aware of discrimination, what it entails, and we document it when it's practiced. Historic pushbacks from those accused of it has taken many forms. Looking specifically at disproportionate numbers of women in radio is the research of Dr. Patty Williamson.
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1 week ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Michigan's Office of Highway Safety Planning has updated its Child Passenger Safety Laws. Three federal organizations led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration establish federal guidelines, but each of the states must adopt them independently. Katie Bower, Michigan's OHSP Director, said the state has updated the rules for infants and young children, but also raised to age 13 the law regarding where they can ride in the vehicle.
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1 week ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Patty Williamson: This year we have a relationship with the Ziibiwing Center and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. We have two films, both documentaries, that are going to screen for free at the Ziibiwing Center and both of them really deal with issues of Native American and indigenous culture and history and both really deal with residential schools and the history there.
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3 weeks ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Below is a transcript of our conversation with artist Kimberly Chapman: David Nicholas:I'm David Nicholas and this is Central Focus, a weekly look at research activity and innovative work from Central Michigan University students and faculty. Last week, we featured author Stephanie Carpenter, who visited campus in support of her novel “Moral Treatment.” The book is set in the late 1800s at the former Traverse City State Hospital.
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4 weeks ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
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1 month ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Listen to this story by clicking the LISTEN play button above. David Nicholas: For 35 years, John Sheffler, creator, producer and host of Our Front Porch brought all kinds of traditional music to stages in central and northern Michigan, and the shows were heard on WCMU and shared with NPR listeners across the country.
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1 month ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Below is a transcript of our conversation with CMU Assistant Professor Dr. Itzel Marquez and Amina Torres, CMU Dearborn Senior David Nicholas:I'm David Nicholas and this is Central Focus, a weekly look at research activity and innovative work from Central Michigan University's students and faculty. In an earlier segment, we learned about PFAS contamination in fish rearing ponds in West Michigan. Waste from a former tannery dumped in landfill had leached into ground and then surface water.
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1 month ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Below is a transcript of our conversation with Dr. Eric Peterson, Assistant Professor, CMU’s College of Medicine David Nicholas:I'm David Nicholas and this is Central Focus, a weekly look at research activity and innovative work from Central Michigan University students and faculty. As I read through the articles written by my colleagues at University Communications here at CMU, I find topics of interest or subjects I haven't shared yet with you on Central Focus.
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1 month ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
Below is a transcript of our conversation with CMU Emeritus Mathematics Professor Rich Fleming: David Nicholas:I'm David Nicholas and this is Central Focus, a weekly look at research activity and innovative work from Central Michigan University students and faculty. When Dr. Rich Fleming retired from CMU in 2007, he endowed a lecture series that each year welcomes, as a guest to campus, someone making contributions to the field of math research.
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2 months ago | 
radio.wcmu.org | David Nicholas
A recent grant has funded the purchase of a van and mobile equipment so public health officials across northern Michigan can go into schools and offer dental screenings and then connect families with oral health care providers. Elisa Dack is the community health coordinator and oral health coordinator for District Health Department No. 2, which serves Alcona, Iosco, Ogemaw and Oscoda counties.
