The concert is set for 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The Western Jazz Quartet is Andrew Rathbun, Jeremy Siskind, Keith Hall and Tom Knific.

The director of community relations and development at Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan will present a talk as the Haworth College of Business kicks off its 2014-15 Mercantile Bank of Michigan Breakfast Speaker Series.

Dr. Oliver Hahn, professor of journalism at the University of Passau, will speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in 211 Bernhard Center to kick off the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society's fall lecture series.

Humanities for Everybody classes for this academic year began Tuesday, Sept. 9. Applications are being accepted on a continuous basis for these free, noncredit courses.

The Western Michigan University women's basketball team will play road games at two Big Ten opponents and a total of 13 home games during the 2014-15 season.

The all-student cast will give several performances of the documentary theater piece Sept. 26 through Oct. 12 in the York Arena Theatre inside the Gilmore Theatre Complex.

A series of four personal finance workshops are being offered to WMU faculty and staff members this fall. They will start Tuesday, Sept. 23, and be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Bernhard Center.

Both the regional and campus United Way campaigns are set to launch Tuesday, Sept. 16. This year's fundraising goal is $282,335, a number that represents all certificates and degrees awarded to WMU graduates since 1904.

Bronco athletics is promoting a "Brownout at Waldo" for the first home game, Saturday, Sept. 20, encouraging fans to wear their brown Bronco gear to support the team.

Major Excitement, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, is intended to help undergraduate students across the University explore many of the majors available to them at WMU.

The Grand Rapids community, as well as faculty, staff, students and alumni of Western Michigan University's Master of Business Administration program, will celebrate the program's 50^th anniversary in Grand Rapids this fall.

Dr. Shirley Van Hoeven, a professor emerita of communication at WMU, died Sept. 8 at age 79. Details about services will be provided as they become available.

For the 24th consecutive year, WMU is listed in the top tier among 280 national institutions—173 public, 100 private and seven for-profit—and moved up eight spots on this year's list.

Geralyn Heystek and Chris Robinson have been awarded first place in the Innovation in Business Education Award for developing WMU's Phoenix Program.

Wendell L. Christoff, Daniel J. Martin and Donald Southwell are WMU's 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award winners. Oct. 23 is the deadline to register for the Oct. 24 event at which they will be recognized.

The third session allowing the community to view the plans for the new dining center is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, in the Bernhard Center's Brown and Gold Room.

Dr. Gellert Mezei has been awarded a $284,833 grant to study negatively charged ions that are potentially damaging to lakes and rivers when found in fertilizers and also are a toxic byproduct in waste from manufacturing.

Family owned business leaders in West Michigan are committed to the state, with more than 90 percent producing products and services within the state, according to results of a recent survey.

The annual back-to-campus celebration will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, on WMU's Sangren Pedestrian Mall. Bronco Bash is free and open to the public.

WMU's 2014-15 Real Talk Diversity Series will kick off with a discussion on gender and issues of privilege from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Trimpe Building's Multicultural Center.

Students interested in trying out as a walk-on for the WMU softball team must attend a mandatory meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, on the third floor of the Seelye Athletic Center.

The nationally recognized integrated supply management program has been ranked No. 5 on Gartner's Top U.S. Supply Chain Undergraduate University Programs, 2014.

The rankings, released Aug. 25, are based on to what extent colleges produce cutting-edge research and new Ph.Ds., encourage students to give back to the nation through service, and recruit and graduate low-income students.

University Business magazine recognized WMU in its summer 2014 Models of Efficiency national program for its work in developing an iPad app that improves the input of information about prospective students.

The owners of a company that started with a competition between friends will kick off the 2014-15 Entrepreneurship Forum speaker series Friday, Sept. 12, in Schneider Hall.

The exhibits "The Housed" and "Your Place or Mine?" are on display in the Richmond Center for Visual Arts' Monroe-Brown Gallery and Kerr Gallery, respectively, Sept. 4 through Oct. 10.

A mandatory meeting for students interested in walk-on tryouts for men's soccer will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 1, in the W Club Room of the Seelye Center.

Except for essential and emergency services, WMU offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 1, in observance of U.S. Labor Day. Regular hours will resume Tuesday, Sept. 2.

The first issue of GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy was published Aug. 20 and can be found online. The journal will be published twice annually.

The WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class of 54 students Aug. 18 ahead of its public grand opening, set for mid-September.