Alumni News
May 31, 2012
Normal Railroad
One of the most iconic images associated with Western Michigan University is the trolley that carried students and faculty up and down Prospect Hill from 1908 to 1949. Four engineering students gave the trolley replica a much-needed update this spring. Sitting in front of the Bernhard Center since 2000, the...
May 30, 2012
Capital Internship Reunion
Alumni of the Capital Internship Program gathered on May 30 at the Boji Tower in downtown Lansing to celebrate the program's impact during the last 35 years. As of spring 2012, internship coordinator and former Political Science Department chairperson Dr. Dave Houghton has helped more than 880 students find internships...
April 30, 2012
An Ultimate Experience
In a matter of days Mark Worsfold will make the transition from WMU student to alumnus and he's already got a pretty unique opportunity waiting for him. Worsfold, who earned a B.A. in Communication last week, will be working—and playing— full time for the Detroit Mechanix, a Professional Ultimate team...
April 09, 2012
Mime-Matics
A two-time WMU alum is taking math out of the classroom and putting an entertaining spin on concepts such as estimation, tiling, and infinity. Timothy Chartier (BS '93, Applied Mathematics; MS '96, Computational Mathematics) is a professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, but he's also the star and creator of...
April 02, 2012
Transportation Leader
The man who managed the reconstruction of the Lodge Freeway, and the construction of the award-winning I-94 Tied Arch Bridge has been nationally recognized for his contributions to advancing innovation and efficiency in the transportation industry. Gregory Johnson received his Masters in Public Administration from WMU in 1991. He began...
March 01, 2012
Caring for Thousands
A WMU student travels to Southern Sudan, an area with 75,000 people and virtually no medical resources, on his own funds, and stays for two months out of the year to work as a public health educator. He meets with small groups of villagers under a tree or hut to...