Artist's rendering of new entrance sign for Parkview Campus

Western Michigan University is in the midst of a campus-wide wayfinding project that will include new and better signage marking roads and various area of the University; the Parkview Campus is included in this initiative.  

Signs are being installed on University property on Parkview Avenue and Drake Road announcing the entrance to the WMU Parkview Campus. This area includes Asylum Lake, the BTR Park--including phase two at Colony Farm, Gibbs House, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Bronco Soccer Complex. 

Once the new signs are completed, the WMU monument sign at the entrance to the BTR Park will be removed, as this area is only a part of the overall Parkview Campus. This will make the BTR Park monument sign more visible from Drake and Parkview roads. Signs will only be installed on WMU property and in the University easements, not on private property.  

Congratulations EPS! 

Weidenhammer, a business focused on helping its clients transform their businesses using marketing, strategy and information technology, announced June 6, 2017 that  CRN®, a brand of  The Channel Company, has named Weidenhammer to its 2017 Solution Provider 500 list. 

The Solution Provider 500 is CRN's annual ranking by revenue of the largest technology integrators, solution providers, and IT consultants in North America. It  is CRN's predominant channel partner award list, serving as the industry standard for recognition of the most successful solution provider companies in the channel since 1995. This year, for the first time since 2010, the complete list will be published on CRN.com, making it readily available to vendors seeking out top solution provider partners.

	Don Carpenter

Welcome to Don Carpenter and  Drummond Carpenter , the newest client company in the WMed Innovation Center. The company specializes in environmental and water resources technical services, engineering, and applied research in two locations--at the Innovation Center and in Orlando, Fla.

If you see Don walking around the Innovation Center, stop and say hello and congratulate him on recently being named as the Educational Professional of the Year by the Michigan Water Environment Association. The award recognizes an individual for their efforts in promoting activities and professionalism in water resource education.

Don looks forward to networking with his fellow entrepreneurs and becoming a part of the Innovation Center and BTR Park family.

A joint co-marketing agreement has been forged between Proteos, Inc., a long-standing tenant of the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Innovation Center and Protea Biosciences Group, Inc, based in Morgantown, W Va.

As a result of this agreement, both companies plan to actively co-market their respective capabilities to the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, life science, and academic sectors. The partnership specifically allows Proteos to market and promote Protea's comprehensive protein analysis capabilities with their custom protein production services, and Protea to combine Proteos' protein production capabilities alongside its own proprietary bioanalytical services.

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Congratulations to Max George, survey department manager at Fleis & VandenBrink, who was recently appointed to the 2017 Kalamazoo County Remonumentation Peer Review Group.

The group is responsible for reviewing and approving the remonumentation of the public land survey systems section corners.

Food Truck Tuesdays

 

Every Tuesday during the fair weather months there will be a food truck in the BTR Park offering lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.  The trucks park at K alexsyn, 4502 Campus Drive. 

August vendors

August 8	Amador (Mexican)
August 15	Kalamazoo Pizza Company
August 22	Ol' Moose BBQ
August 29	Amador

Additional locations and vendors are under consideration. All park employees and their guests are welcome. Cash and credit cards accepted. 

For more information, contact Becky Gross at [email protected] or Ed Steinbrecher at [email protected].