Alumni News
March 01, 2012
Discovering Merze Tate
Sonya Bernard-Hollins (BA ’93, English, Community Journalism) is a freelance writer and journalist for local, state, and national newspapers and magazines. She also enjoys spending time digging through archives—and has focused on one outstanding historical figure who also happens to be a WMU alumna. That outstanding figure is Merze Tate...
March 01, 2012
Not So Common Courtesy
The following post was contributed by Kyle Herm in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations.Mitzi Taylor (BA ’93, Organizational Communication; Marketing) didn’t initially set out to raise awareness about manners with her career—but that’s exactly what she’s accomplished with her book Not So Common Courtesy. The book, which was...
February 07, 2012
Invited by the President
WMU President John M. Dunn received a personal invitation from Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez to take part in the opening of a new Haitian university campus designed to serve 10,000 students. The devastating earthquake that killed thousands of Haitians and destroyed the country’s infrastructure two years ago also had...
February 07, 2012
Run Across Palestine
Meryl Marsh (BA ’04, Music) is running across Palestine—that’s right, for 5 days and 129 miles, Marsh is running from the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories, from Hebron to Jenin, to show her support for sustainable community development in farming regions across the world. The U.S. (Traverse City, MI)...
February 07, 2012
Trent Returns to WMU
Tererai Trent (Ph.D ’09, Evaluation) was named by Oprah as her all-time favorite guest last spring. Recently, Trent returned to WMU to talk about her life and the education she received at WMU. Trent pointed out that WMU offers the ONLY Ph.D program in Evaluation and that the University stood...
December 19, 2011
Reporting from Iraq
Ben Lando, a WMU alum (BS ’05, Col. of Arts & Sciences) is the world’s leading reporter on Iraq energy issues. Based in Baghdad, Iraq since July 2009 — Ben founded the Iraq Oil Report — an online news site covering the Iraq story with an eye on the country’s...