Alumni News
October 28, 2013
MacUpdate
The founder of the second most popular Mac-only software community on the Internet, and Western Michigan University alumnus, will be the next presenter in a speaker series at WMU focusing on entrepreneurship. Founder of MacUpdate, Joel Mueller's (BBA ’02, Management) entrepreneurial story started in high school when he developed companies...
October 22, 2013
Aphasia Awareness
Rachel Eagly (BSW ’03, Social Work) has been leading efforts to provide aphasia awareness training for Kalamazoo first responders. She's had the assistance of many, including Western Michigan University speech-language pathology graduate student clinicians Claire Carpenter and JoHanna Rose, and ACE (Aphasia Communication Enhancement) Program participants. Her goal is to...
October 20, 2013
Paying it Forward
Keith (BBA ’64, Accountancy) and Margo (BA ’65, English) LaGore met at Western Michigan University in the fall of 1963. “We met in an English class,” Keith said. “There were no women in my accounting classes. Keith was Social Director of the Men's Union Board, Student Council President, Intra Fraternity...
October 13, 2013
Global Citizenship
Bo Miller (BBA ’78, Industrial Marketing), global director for corporate citizenship at The Dow Chemical Company and president and executive director of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, will speak on global citizenship and promoting sustainability and globally responsible citizenry on Thursday, Oct. 24. The event is open to the public...
October 10, 2013
Sweet to Speak at WMU
A financial expert for Dell will be featured in the next Western Michigan University Distinguished Speaker Series, hosted by the Haworth College of Business at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in 2000 Schneider Hall. Thomas Sweet (BBA '81, Accountancy), vice president of corporate finance, controller and chief accounting officer...
October 08, 2013
50 Distinguished Years
Fifty years ago, in 1963, Alfred Pugno (BS '33) was honored as the very first recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award at Western Michigan University. The biography on Pugno's award plaque reads: An outstanding student athlete while at Western, Mr. Pugno was a respected public school teacher and coach before...