Alumni News
May 21, 2013
Outstanding Leadership
Michael Nienhuis (BS '09, Mechanical Engineering; MS '12, Mechanical Engineering) has been honored with the SAE International Rumbaugh Outstanding Student Leader Award. Nienhuis is now an engineer and involved in the Ford College Graduate Program for Product Development. While a student at WMU, Nienhuis was involved with the Formula SAE...
May 14, 2013
Best of the Best
Michael Debs (BBA '80, Accountancy) loves to the solve the problems that pop up during any average day. Accounting can be 'traditional,' but problems are not—and allow for a lot of creative intelligence. Debs, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Kelly Services, was selected by Execrank as a Top Chief...
May 12, 2013
Community Health Chair
Rev. Dr. Michael C.R. Nabors (BS '82, English), senior pastor of Detroit’s New Calvary Baptist Church since 1997, has been appointed Gateway Community Health’s (GCH) Board Chairman. Nabors has served more than 25 religious and community leadership boards in Michigan and New Jersey including the Board of the Detroit Branch...
May 12, 2013
Rising Star
After leaving from WMU, Lisa Esser-Weidenfeller (BBA '03, Finance) graduated summa cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2006. Today she practices in the areas of medical malpractice, wrongful death, and birth injury. Recently, Esser-Weidenfeller was elected shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, P.C. in Southfield, MICH.—where she is the...
May 07, 2013
Business Intelligence
Matt Mace (BBA '98, Computer Information Systems) has been identified as one of the Top 40 Business Leaders Under 40 in West Michigan—and he's the next speaker in the Entrepreneurship Forum at Western Michigan University. Mace is the CEO of a leading business intelligence company, BlueGranite, and will speak at...
April 30, 2013
A Celebration of Life
In late April, members of the Kalamazoo Community gathered to remember a WMU alumna. Anastasia Schauer's (BSN '09, Nursing) life was cut short in fall 2012 after a tragic car accident. Anastasia began her collegiate career at Kalamazoo Valley Community College before transferring to the Bronson School of Nursing at...