Alumni News
January 25, 2016
Alumna's Work in 'Fragmented Reality'
Agora Gallery, a contemporary fine art gallery in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York, will feature the original work of Margaret Vega (MA ’83, Art; MFA ’89, Art) in Fragmented Reality. Margaret Vega’s landscapes range from the rolling Italian countryside to the dramatic tides of New...
January 25, 2016
Advancing Student Affairs
In November, the Dr. Christopher A. Lewis Distinguished Service award was renamed for the former chair of a knowledge community that promotes a better understanding and partnership between academic affairs and student affairs within higher education. Christopher Lewis (BA ’97, Organization Communication) currently directs Enrollment Programs and Student Services and...
January 19, 2016
A Novel Pursuit
Kimberly Knutsen (Ph.D ’05, English) realized she wanted to be a writer after she was cut from the final 13 dancers during an audition for the Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas. She decided to focus on her academics and eventually ended up at Western Michigan University to pursue...
January 03, 2016
Varsity News Network Co-Founder on Campus
The co-founder of a middle and high school sports network will be the next speaker at the Entrepreneurship Forum speaker series at Western Michigan University’s Haworth College of Business. Ryan Vaughn (B.A.’06, Creative Writing) of Varsity News Network will speak at 8 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 15, in 2150 Schneider...
December 15, 2015
Building a Loving World
Deb Higgins (BA; MA, Sociology), WMU alumna and former WMU employee, has been named vice president of program at the Fetzer Institute, a spiritually grounded community of love and hope dedicated to helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. Based in Kalamazoo, the Institute was established and endowed...
November 29, 2015
Dating Without the Guesswork
Alumnus Kyle Gernhofer (B.S. ’00, Biomedical Science) is a dentist by trade with a dating app business on the side. It’s not just any app—it’s trying to fix a major flaw in the system. Several years ago, the former Navy Dental Officer was one of millions of Americans using online...