Thanks to the generosity of Ronda E. Stryker and William D. Johnston, the first class of medical students will be welcomed this fall to the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine.

WMU faculty, staff and graduate teaching assistants are invited to the Assessment in Action Day conference, set for Friday March 21. The conference is free of charge.

"Million Dollar Quartet," which tells the story of a musical meeting between Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, is coming to Miller Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18-19.

Kalamazoo Public Schools sixth graders will visit WMU in March and April as part of the Bronco Buds program, which encourages early middle school students to begin thinking about attending college.

The "Fairy Tales, Legends and Myths" poetry, set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the Portage District Library will feature three poets with ties to WMU.

The Kalamazoo taping of the popular NPR show will feature panelists Brian Babylon, Bobcat Goldthwait and Amy Dickinson. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" star Terry Crews will participate in the show's "Not my Job" segment.

National design educators Eric Anderson of Carnegie Mellon University and Craig Vogel of the University of Cincinnati will speak at WMU at 4 p.m. Monday, March 10, in 3512 Knauss Hall.

Billy Drewes will join the Western Jazz Quartet for the 34th annual Western Invitational Jazz Festival starting at 8 p.m. March 14 in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The festival's closing concert is set for 7:30 p.m. March 15.

"Puppet Up! – Uncensored," created by Brian Henson and Patrick Bristow, is coming to Miller Auditorium for one performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 15.

Amy Proos, owner and CEO of Proos Manufacturing and Proos Fabrication, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, March 14, in 2150 Schneider Hall, as part of the Haworth College of Business Entrepreneurship Forum.

Sandra Steingraber will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in the Dalton Theatre of the Light Fine Arts Building at Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

A fresh adaptation of the longest-running musical in history, "The Fantasticks," is coming to Miller Auditorium for one performance at 8 p.m. Friday, March 14. Tickets range from $20 to $35.

The 76th annual Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival, one of the largest, oldest and most successful high school choral festivals in the U.S., will be held on WMU's campus Thursday, March 13.

Melissa Gray, senior director of sustainability for a global leader in hybrid cloud environments, will present "What We All Want From Work" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in 2000 Schneider Hall.

The Haworth College of Business and the WMU School of Medicine have designed a dual-degree program allowing medical students to complete both an M.D. degree and MBA degree with a concentration in healthcare.

Students are encouraged to participate in the annual Student Sustainability Survey. The survey is open March 2-23 and is accessible online. Results will be shared at a town hall event Thursday, April 10.

Pink Martini will bring their music, featuring tones of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop, to Miller Auditorium Tuesday, March 11. The von Trapps, great grandchildren of Captain and Maria Von Trapp, will join the performance.

Students in grades four through eight are invited to register to take part in free workshops starting March 8 that are associated with Together Kalamazoo, a countywide celebration of the arts, community and diversity.

The literary journal The Kenyon Review has named Melinda Moustakis, a graduate of WMU's doctoral program in creative writing, a Kenyon Review Fellow.

Nick Dewyer of Chelsea, Mich., has been selected as a finalist in the Gagliardi Solo Competition, for students 18 and under. Dewyer will travel to Rochester, N.Y., in June to compete.

Two assistant professors in the Department of Biological Sciences, hope to raise $20,000 online by May 1 to support four students' summer research projects, which will include work in the community.

Greg D. Roehrick, theatre, died Feb. 25 at age 60. A family burial in Chippewa Falls, Wis., is planned, and a date will be set for a WMU campus celebration of his life and career.

This year's Graduate College Faculty Fellows are Dr. Julie Apker, associate professor of communication, and Dr. Louann A. Bierlein Palmer, professor of educational leadership, research and technology.

WMU students seeking a low-cost, meaningful spring break experience are encouraged to participate in Spring Staycation, to be held March 3-7 in Kalamazoo.

The all-student cast will give several performances of '9 to 5,' the musical based on the hit 1980s movie, March 13-23 in the Shaw Theatre at the Gilmore Theatre Complex.

The $500,000 grant to WMU psychologists from the Michigan Department of Community Health will fund an array of initiatives to help train mental health practitioners, parents and others who are treating autism.

The emphasis on environmental stewardship has resulted in the University being recertified under the Arbor Foundation's Tree Campus USA program. It also is helping to preserve a population of trees rarely found this far north.

The Kalamazoo Air Zoo's Troy Thrash will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in 2150 Schneider Hall. His talk is titled "Building a Museum's Value Proposition Toward a Thriving Community."

WMU's food and consumer package goods marketing now boasts certification of its coursework by a national professional organization. The WMU program is one of only two programs to earn such a certification.

Dr. David M. Kreps will speak at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, in 2028 Brown Hall. His talk is titled "The Economics and Psychology of Worker Motivation" and is free and open to the public.