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Western Express August 28, 2015

Western Express August 28, 2015


Western Michigan University news highlights and alumni news for August 21 – 27, 2015. This week’s campus photo features the Chemistry Building to the right with Sprau Tower in the distance.

Western Michigan University has become just the fifth organization in the country to receive accreditation for landscape management and operations under a new, dynamic sustainability-oriented program established by the Professional Grounds Management Society.

WMU earns top accreditation for landscape management. Read more.


WMU News

Student is third in a row from WMU to win national scholarship. Read more.

$5.5 million renovation unveiled at WMU- Grand Rapids Beltline location. Read more.


Bronco Athletics News

2015 Get to the Game Program. Read more.

Baseball Announces Fall Camps. Read more.

WMU Hockey Season Tickets Now On-Sale. Read more.

Broncos Take 3-1 Decision in Alumnae Exhibition (Volleyball). Read more.

Five Reasons to Watch the WMU Men’s Soccer Team This Season. Read more.

Broncos Picked Second in MAC Men’s Soccer Preseason Poll. Read more.

Volleyball Picked Second in MAC West. Read more.


Alumni in the News

Keith Gladhill (BS '94, Telecommunication Management). Verizon Wireless Names New Region President. Read more.

Lisa Willerick (BA ’02, Secondary Education). Romulus educator is named science teacher of 2015. Read more.

Dennis Archer (BS ’65, Special Education). Dickinson Wright Chariman Emeritus Dennis W. Archer Joins Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame. Read more.

Michael Villaire (BA ’83, Communication) named 2015 winner of prestigious Cecilia and Leonard Doak Health Literacy Champion Award. Read more.

Carla Renee Postell (Ed.D. ’11, Educational Leadership). New Staff Announced for Hazel Park Schools. Read more.

UNCW Names Rigoberto J. Rincones-Gómez (MA ’00, Educational Leadership; Ph.D. ’02, Educational Leadership) Assistant Provost of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Read more.