Governor Gretchen Whitmer has made two new appointments to the Oakland University Board of Trustees. These appointments are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
The first appointee is Nate Engle of Lansing, who will serve a term from March 5, 2026 through August 11, 2028. He succeeds Joe Jones, who resigned from the board last month.
Nate Engle
Engle currently serves as director of community engagement for the Michigan Department of Agriculture. His professional background includes
Dunya Mikhail, special lecturer of Arabic in Oakland University’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of creative writing in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film, will spend the Fall 2026 semester teaching at Princeton University as the Holmes Visiting Professor of Poetry.
The professorship is an honorary position that invites a distinguished contemporary poet to come to Princeton for one semester to teach a class, give a talk and/or poetry reading and mentor students on
Oakland University faculty member Ali Woerner, associate professor of dance in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, is a co-author — alongside 21 additional contributors — of a peer-reviewed article published Feb. 19, 2026, in Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology and one of the highest-ranked clinical neurology journals in the world.
Titled Behind the Curtain: Consensus Recommendations to Support University-Level Performing Arts Students’ Return to the Stage After The 45th Rochester Area Prayer Breakfast Welcomes Guest Speaker Chad Williams
The 45th Rochester Area Prayer Breakfast will welcome guest speaker, Chad Williams, former U.S. Navy SEAL. Chad served his country proudly through multiple deployments. Chad honed the qualities and values that our nation’s best adhere to. In a final operation in Iraq, his SEAL team was set up on a premeditated ambush similar to the location and scenario that took the life of his mentor Scott Helvenston.
While on active duty, The Harmony in the Hills Lenten Concert SeriesOpens with Trumpeter Amanda Ross Trumpeter Dr. Amanda Ross, of Oakland University, kicks off the Harmony in the Hills 2026 Lenten Concert Series on Friday, February 20, at noon in the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Sanctuary. St. Paul’s is located at 620 Romeo Street, Rochester, MI. Admission is FREE, but free-will donations are gratefully accepted.
Ross, is a powerful talent, passionate performer and educator, currently teaching at Oakland University.
Governor Whitmer appoints two new members to Oakland University’s Board of Trustees
OU’s Dunya Mikhail selected to serve as Holmes Visiting Professor of Poetry at Princeton this fall
Oakland University Professor Ali Woerner co-authors article in ‘Neurology’ journal
The 45th Rochester Area Prayer Breakfast Welcomes Guest Speaker Chad Williams on April 23, 2026
The Harmony in the Hills Lenten Concert Series
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Monday, February 09, 2026