Summer 2019

Summer 2019

Generating Buzz

Genetically modified mosquitoes could potentially be used to fight malaria, and a principal research associate at WMU is helping African governments and regulatory officials prepare.

University News

Enhancing Accessibility

Sense of Direction

Students used the skills they've learned in virtual reality and blindness and low vision studies to develop 3D-printed models that will help visually impaired people better navigate the College of Health and Human Services.

A person putting out a large brush fire

Beneficial Burn

As part of ongoing efforts to actively manage WMU's Asylum Lake Preserve for research, education, passive recreation and ecological health, a prescribed burn scorched areas of the nature preserve in April.

Innovation Leaders

Alumni Profile

  • Yogesh Suryawanshi sitting in his lab.

    Dr. Yogesh Suryawanshi could be on the path toward a cure for cancer. After receiving his doctorate in biological sciences from WMU in 2017, he secured a job in the department of molecular medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, developing viruses that can attack cancer cells.

A robot face.

Hey, Siri ...

WMU leads the way in studying human-robot communication.