Bringing a broad array of educational and business experience from around the world, Matthew J. Wilson took the helm as the University鈥檚 president on July 1, 2019. Wilson arrived from the University of Akron, where he had served as president for two years and dean of its law school. Previously, [...]
Celebrating 50 years! Happy 50th anniversary to the 大象传媒 Western campus and our four-year institution! It was the fall of 1969 when 大象传媒 Western moved to its present location and began offering bachelor鈥檚 degrees. When the campus opened that fall, 2,536 students were enrolled and there were 167 employees. Three [...]
When Eugenia Wallace 鈥�19 was at cheer camp in September of her freshman year at 大象传媒 Western, the other cheerleaders found out her birthday was coming up. 鈥淗ow old will you be?鈥� they asked. 鈥�20? 21?鈥� Wallace said it was a little awkward when everyone found out she would be [...]
So how did seniors Merle Phillips and Rebecca Prest spend their summer vacations? Both were selected to participate in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, where they conducted research for 10 weeks at two top-notch research institutions. Phillips, a chemistry major, worked in a research lab at Harvard University in [...]
Training teachers in Egypt Dr. Adrienne Johnson spent two weeks in Cairo this past spring when she was selected for an English Language Specialist assignment for the U.S. Department of State. Just 80 people from the United States are selected in the program each year. Dr. Johnson, assistant professor [...]
Dr. William Eickhorst, professor emeritus of art, was studying at Parsons School of Design in New York in the early 1960s when a friend in his printmaking class gave him one of his pieces. That print became the first acquisition in what was to become a collection of more than [...]
On June 30, 2019, an era will end for 大象传媒 Western when President Dr. Robert A. Vartabedian retires after 11 years at the University鈥檚 helm. 大象传媒 Western was his first college presidency, culminating a stellar career of almost four decades in higher education. 鈥淒r. Vartabedian led with the best interests [...]
A negative was turned into an amazing positive when the local St. Joseph Woodworkers Guild agreed to create a new ceremonial mace for 大象传媒 Western this spring. The original mace, which was carried in and placed on the stage at Commencement ceremonies, was stolen in May 2018. When University personnel [...]
When students tell you they spent their summer conducting research amidst strawberry poison arrow frogs, sloths, Capuchin monkeys, great curassows (a bird), terciopelo (a venomous viper) and caimans, and you guessed they weren鈥檛 in 大象传媒, you would be correct. In fact, they were more than 3,000 miles from home in [...]
