Alumni News
June 21, 2015
State Rep; Alumna Honored
Kristy Pagan (BS ’04, Health Education Teaching; Women’s Studies), a State Representative for the 21st Michigan house district, was recently inducted to the Alumni Honor Academy of the Department of Human Performance and Health Education (HPHE) at the 14th Annual Alumni Honor Academy Luncheon sponsored by HPHE at WMU. As...
June 07, 2015
WMU Alumni at WMed
The inaugural class of medical students at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) has officially completed the first year, and is beginning to look forward to ‘showing the ropes’ to a new cohort next fall. Among the inaugural class of 54 students were three WMU alumni...
May 31, 2015
A Sobering Tale
Eric Woodyard (BA ’10, Journalism) is an award-winning sports reporter for The Flint Journal/MLive.com. He’s also the creator of the Flint Made Me Scholarship, and produced a documentary about growing up in Flint not just to raise support for the scholarship, but to inspire the youth in his home town...
May 11, 2015
Medallion Alumna, Medallion Student
Before becoming a high school art teacher, Sarah Nott (BFA ’11, Art Education) was a Medallion Scholar as a student Western Michigan University. “I am speaking literally when I say that I could not afford to work the job I now have if I were shouldered with student debt,” Nott...
May 03, 2015
Award Winning Restaurateurs
Bonnie (B.S. '66) and Norm LePage (B.S. '66, Marketing) met as students at Western Michigan University. Both were involved on campus, Bonnie was in the Delta Zeta sorority and Norm was in the Sigma Chi fraternity. Today, they are restaurateurs and own three well known establishments in Metro Detroit-- Griffin...
April 27, 2015
Data Challenges
Chad Schafer (BS ’95, Statistics) went on to receive his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley before becoming the director of graduate studies for the department of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Now, in addition to his other roles, Schafer has a new challenge as the co-chair of LSST Informatics and Statistics...