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In Memoriam, summer 2026

W Magazine

… Shirley , BS ’47, Feb. 13, 2025, Kalamazoo, MI Susan Kay (Anderson) Noble , BS ’49, Nov. 23, 2025, Vicksburg, MI … MI Barbara Lee (Avery) Lowe , BA ’57, Nov. 9, 2025, Cedar Springs, MI Stanley Lee Armstrong , BM ’57, Dec. 18, 2025, … MI Robert Alan Guettler , BM ’57, Jan. 9, 2026, Berrien Springs, MI David Conkling Allen , BS ’57, Nov. 10, 2025, …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/news/2026/06/memoriam-summer-2026

Open educational resources grants awarded

University Libraries

… $94,204 in textbook costs [1] , based on projected 2025 and 2026 course enrollment. We also awarded three creation … communications, business data and social work, benefiting Western students and learners globally. Because OER have … and data are relevant issues for a variety of fields.” Spring 2025 OER Adoption Grant recipients Dr. Peter …

https://wmich.edu/library/news/2026/02/impact-report-oer

Wrenching Wings and Gearing for Professional Growth with Dr. Gail Rouscher

College of Aviation

… Wrenching Wings and Gearing for Professional Growth with Dr. Gail Rouscher … in management and organizational development from Spring Arbor University (2007), a master's from Spring Arbor … in educational leadership in higher education from Western Michigan in 2018.    And, if the U. S. Navy awarded …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2021/04/rouscher

Summer camp inspires youth to dream big, envision college life

News

… a statistics doctoral student, teaches two youth attending WIRE Math and Science Summer Camp about coding on a breadboard. … career.    The WIRE Math and Science Summer Camp hosted by Western Michigan University’s Lewis Walker Institute for the …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/08/wire-math-science-summer-camp-lewis-walker-institute-2025

Jumping In and Out with Keaton Jeffrey: Aviation Technical Operations Student, Sky Dive Bronco Member and RAI Jets Intern

College of Aviation

… Jumping In and Out with Keaton Jeffrey: Aviation Technical Operations … City at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula in the northwestern part of the state.  Keaton Jeffrey engaged in timing … Jeffrey and friend, Austin, visiting Chicago during their spring 2021 freshman year "It  is truly a 'win-win' for RAI …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2022/03/jeffrey

First Year Fun and Medallion Scholarship Success: Makenzie Russell Ascends at WMU Aviation

College of Aviation

… First Year Fun and Medallion Scholarship Success: Makenzie Russell Ascends … of Aviation , she is an avid hockey player and was awarded Western's prestigious Medallion Scholarship for her academic … at Homewood-Flossmoor High prior to her graduation in the spring of 2023 put her on the path to a Medallion …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2023/10/russell

Professor explores the Vietnam War through music in interdisciplinary course and Bruce Springsteen research

College of Arts and Sciences

… the Vietnam War through music in interdisciplinary course and Bruce Springsteen research Submitted by Callah Barnes on … the top of the HNRS 3303 syllabus is a quote from Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender” that reads: “We busted out of …

https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/news/2026/06/vietnam-war-music

School of Music ensembles celebrate release of new album

News

… "Contemplating Weather" is now available. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University's University Chorale and new music ensemble Birds on a Wire are featured performers on the newly released album …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23331

Hanging out with Helen Manumbu – Traveling Down the Aviation Tech Ops Path

College of Aviation

… Tech Ops Path Submitted by Tom Thinnes on Helem Manumbu and her mother getting ready for another shift in the … Helen Hyabita Manumbu , who also has some legacy links to Western Michigan University.   Before shifting her residence … in Battle Creek in 2022, but the decision went down to the wire.  "I was accepted at Embry-Riddle," she says, "but …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/11/manumbu

Finding community and confidence: Manavi Trivedi’s journey from India to Kalamazoo for an MBA

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… Finding community and confidence: Manavi Trivedi’s journey from India to … from India pursuing an MBA in business analytics , chose Western Michigan University for more than academics. It was … far away from her family. Trivedi plans to graduate in the spring of 2027. After, she intends to pursue a Ph.D. in …

https://wmich.edu/global/news/2026/02/trivedi-international-student-story