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Caps off to the grads! Kordell Smith (Business) Alaa Sleymann (Biological Sciences) Kobe Brown (Theatre) WMU nursing program students, faculty are pandemic prepared Student social media campaign helps WMU community #staypositive Campus community pitching in to provide WMU students with essentials Aviation alum delivers critical supplies, personnel for pandemic response WMU senior engineering students solve problems facing business, industry and people Future Broncos use talents to help frontline health care workers Broncos at home Music challenge aims to build harmony, community from a distance For the birds: Avian adventures bring comfort while social distancin

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Stampede April 1, 2020

Students navigate the challenges, and even advantages, of distance education WMU still serving students\u27 Faculty stepping up to support transition to distance education Counseling Services helping students cope with pandemic-related anxiety, stress Invisible Need Project changes, broadens some services in response to pandemic Sew worth it- Broncos use skills to craft masks for hospital workers Jazz student takes composing experience to new level, livestreaming process online How to keep your body healthy during COVID-19 Six ways to fight boredom during isolation Sindecuse Health Center is open with some change

Stampede February 26, 2020

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Stampede October 15, 2019

Your Superpower? Managing your time Online threats - how to protect yourself and what WMU is doing to help Gain marketable skills as a student staffer Need help with textbooks? Check out the library Nursing major to rep WMU on state\u27s youth voter task force The unbreakable spirit of Broncos Students create Bronco-themed wine Driving driverless technolog

Electroweak Baryogenesis and Colored Scalars

We consider the 2-loop finite temperature effective potential for a Standard Model-like Higgs boson, allowing Higgs boson couplings to additional scalars. If the scalars transform under color, they contribute 2-loop diagrams to the effective potential that include gluons. These 2-loop effects are perhaps stronger than previously appreciated. For a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV, they can increase the strength of the phase transition by as much as a factor of 3.5. It is the analogue of this effect that is responsible for the survival of the tenuous electroweak baryogenesis window of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We further illuminate the importance of these 2-loop diagrams by contrasting models with colored scalars to models with singlet scalars. We conclude that baryogenesis favors models with light colored scalars. This motivates searches for pair-produced di-jet resonances or jet(s) + missing energy.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes, journal versio

Stampede January 28, 2020

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Faculty Publications 1976-77

Faculty Publications 1976-77 is the fifteenth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues

Measurements of Top Quark Properties at the Tevatron

The top quark is the most recently discovered of the standard model quarks, and studies of its properties are important tests of the standard model. Many measurements of top properties have been produced by the CDF and D0 collaborations, which study top quarks produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with a center-of-mass energy sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV. We describe recent results from top properties measurements at the Tevatron using datasets corresponding to integrated luminosities up to 8.7/fb.Comment: Presented at the 2012 Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, March 10-17, 2012. 5 pages, 1 figur

Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.

Decades of research have led to substantially improved understanding of the nature of food insecurity. A combination of economic growth and targeted programs resulted in a steady fall (until the food crisis of 2007/08) in the percentage of the world’s population suffering from undernutrition (from 20% in 1990/92 to 16% in 2006). Yet over a billion people still face both chronic and/or transitory food insecurity due to long-standing problems of inadequate income, low-productivity in agricultural production and marketing, and related problems of poor health and absence of clean water. Assuring adequate food security for such a large share of the world’s population is increasingly challenging due to continuing resource degradation driven by a combination of population pressure and outdated agricultural practices, poorly functioning input markets, rapid urbanization, increased concerns about food safety, and climate change. This document contains an overview of the past 25 years of research, capacity-building, and outreach by MSU’s Food Security Group. The paper describes key elements of the FSG approach and draws lessons regarding the value of that model. Insights gained from research and outreach and their value in addressing the major current challenges facing food and agricultural systems in Africa are summarized in FSG (2009).Africa, Food Security, research, capacity building, outreach, Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, Demand and Price Analysis, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, Land Economics/Use, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, q10, q18, q12, q13,