Mark Frever News Today

Western Michigan University was yet again a recipient of the Tree Campus Higher Education award, distributed by the Arbor Day Foundation. This is the fifteenth year in which WMU has

One of WMUs self watering planters sits in the Deither H. Haenicke Memorial Garden outside the chemistry building.  Aya Miller, Editor-in-Cheif Landscape Services at WMU have taken the ‘teach a man to fish’ idiom to a new level with self-watering planters. Crafted from recycled plastic and carpet, the planters work to retain water and fertilizer, reducing the need to be watered from thrice weekly to once every three weeks. The new planters were m...

Spring has finally arrived and Western Michigan University’s Facilities Management is prepared to bring that feeling to students on campus.  Mark Frever, director of landscaping, said students can look for many colorful flowers and bright green grass that has recovered from the winter. Miller fountain will also be filled again in the beginning of April.  “In regards of what students can be looking forward to for the spring, they will see a lot of flower bulbs come up and they wi...