Alumni News
June 22, 2022
Alumnus Logan Brown Continues to Soar
Logan Brown (B.S. ’19, Aviation Flight Science) believes the sky’s the limit when it comes to opportunities at WMU. Seizing those chances requires more than luck though; it demands active engagement. “Get involved, any way you can,” he advised current students. “You cannot imagine the opportunities this place has for...
June 13, 2022
The Dziubans Make Intercontinental Impact
What’s better than one Bronco doing amazing things in the world? Two, like WMU alumni Keri and Eric Dziuban. Keri Dziuban (B.S. ’05, Special Education) received the Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad for the U.S. State Department’s African Affairs bureau in 2021. After graduating from WMU, Keri...
June 13, 2022
For Tanner Bosma, Life is a Wonderful Blank Canvas
Tanner Bosma (B.F.A. ’19, Art Education – Painting) won Best in Show for his acrylic on canvas titled “Into the Night” at the College of Fine Arts Student Art Exhibition in 2019. The painting’s reflective qualities are mesmerizing. You’d swear it’s a photograph from a distance, but on closer examination...
May 25, 2022
Diane Seuss: Social Work Postgraduate + Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” poet Diane Seuss (M.S.W. ’83) wrote in her critically acclaimed frank: sonnets. While her latest book has garnered several prestigious awards, including the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Diane is as unpretentious and real as it gets. “So...
May 19, 2022
Defeat? Alumnus Dr. Richard Navarro Wouldn’t Hear of It
You’d think someone with 40 years of management and administrative experience, 14 inventions, four issued patents with two patents pending, and scores of professional publications and presentations would’ve been voted “Most Likely to Succeed” in high school. Dr. Richard Navarro’s start (B.S., M.A. ’70-71, Speech Pathology and Audiology), however, was...
May 19, 2022
Mark Ybarra Goes Above and Beyond Making the Grade
Raising two children as a single parent would be more than enough of a challenge for most people. Mark Ybarra (M.A. ’05, Family and Consumer Sciences) isn’t most people though. Mark not only single-handedly raised two disabled sons who had previously languished in the foster care system, he did so...