In honor of Women’s History Month, the Western Illinois University Student Honors Association (SHA) will host a Women’s Media Drive. This drive will be oriented toward popular media that is created by women, for women, or engages with ideas of womanhood. Content from queer women, women of color and other under-represented women is encouraged. Possible donations include books, movies, music, artwork, etc. Items can be new or secondhand. SHA invites any WIU students and staff who have created a piece of media that fits this theme to submit their own work to the drive. The organization... Read More

Western Illinois University will host a faculty panel discussion to provide historical, geopolitical and religious context for the ongoing situation in Ukraine from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 in the University Union’s Sandburg Theater. WIU Department of History Interim Chair Tim Roberts will moderate three brief presentations, followed by a discussion and question and answer session. Panelists include: • Liberal Arts and Sciences Coordinator and Religious Studies Professor Betsy Perabo, who has taught at WIU since 2005. Her research focuses on religion and war and she is the author... Read More

MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – Western Illinois University Construction Project Coordinator Derek Willey has been named the Al and Elaine Goldfarb Civil Service Employee of the Month for February 2022. Willey was hired for his current position in October 2020. According to his nominator, Willey is knowledgeable and always eager to help. “In the year and a half he has been in Facilities Management, he has worked on several large construction projects, all over campus that have impacted scores of people,” his nominator said. “We are impressed with the designs he has created for the Horn... Read More

As the Western Illinois University Spring 2022 semester progresses toward spring break, March 14-18, COVID-19 campus procedures have been amended to continue to ensure the health and safety of the members of University community. Spring Break Week Testing Center Hours WIU-Macomb (register in advance at bit.ly/WIUCOVID19Testing): Student Recreation Center MAC Gym (south gym) Monday, March 14: 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Beginning Monday, March 21, the WIU Macomb Testing Center Hours will be adjusted to 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday for the reminder of the spring semester. If individuals are unable to make... Read More

Western Illinois University’s School of Computer Science hosted the 2022 LeatherHack training and cybersecurity competition in February. A selection committee chose 11 students out of 58 applicants to participate in the competition, based on their experience and interest in cybersecurity. Computer Science faculty conducted training sessions in a Cybersecurity lab. Six of the participants advanced into the finals and competed as two teams, Team Kali and Team Phoenix. The final competition was held Feb. 23. Professor Binto George coordinated training and competition activities. A panel of judges,... Read More

The Western Illinois University School of Music will host the Lanta Horn Duo, made up of Katy Ambrose and Lauren Hunt, for a masterclass and guest artist recital Wednesday, March 9. “Amplifying Women’s Voices” is a program of music performed and composed by female-identifying musicians. The concert will be both in-person and livestreamed. The day’s schedule of events includes: • 1 – 2:30 pm: Masterclass with Lanta Horn Duo and WIU Horn Studio Performers (Browne Hall, 215) • 7:30 pm: Guest Artist Recital, “Amplifying Women’s Voices.” Ambrose and... Read More

The Geodeland Earth Science Clubs, Inc. (GESCI) will host its 41st annual Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, March 12, and from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, March 13 in the Western Illinois University Union Grand Ballroom. Parking and admission are free. The theme of this year’s show is “Red Minerals and Illinois Fossils.” There will be a featured display in the center of the Grand Ballroom. The GESCI Show will include 10 dealers in minerals, fossils, jewelry and equipment. There will be displays of geodes, minerals, fossils, and many other earth science objects.... Read More

The School of Music at Western Illinois University, will present its 35th annual New Music Festival 2022 Monday-Tuesday, March 7-8. The events that make up the festival will be held in Browne Hall and in the College of Fine Arts and Communication Recital Hall. The festival is being directed by WIU School of Music Professor James Romig and Assistant Professor Hong-Da Chin, both composition faculty. This year’s featured performer is cellist Craig Hultgren and the featured composer is Baljinder Sekhon. Hultgren has performed as a cellist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and has taught at... Read More

“You and yours and them, she be willing to give, she be willing to live, she know she got the world on her back and the galaxies in her womb. She is a woman so she know that means that she is a warrior too …” – “and She Worthy” by Kywn Townsend Riley, from her spoken word album, “and She Worthy.” Riley, a Western Illinois University College Student Personnel graduate student, recently won the Chicago Reader’s 2021 Best of Chicago Competition, in the “Best New Poetry Collection of 2021” category. She was nominated for the competition, and... Read More

The Western Illinois University Department of Physics will host episode nine of its Virtual Science Saturday, “Nanomaterials: What, How, and Why,” from 10-11 a.m. March. 5. This session will include a discussion about an exciting class of materials that bring radically new concepts to the field of materials science, and change the world of technology. This event will be led by WIU Physics Chair Kishor T. Kapale and Physics Professor P. K. Babu. Virtual Science Saturday is open to anyone and can be joined at bit.ly/WIUScienceSaturday. Past sessions of Virtual Science Saturday can be... Read More