"As a student, being in the marching band here at Western gives me the sense of belonging to a group that not only loves music as much as I do, but that can band together and work hard to create something beautiful to show the community."

- Maddy Garrott, Student
School of Music

A National Science Foundation grant to study the formation of the most massive stars in the galaxy will allow WIU undergraduate and graduate students to visit observatories, take part in other scientific conferences and outreach activities and provide special scholarships for high-school students to participate in a WIU summer science camp.

"I think the faculty here, in part because of the communities that we build and the students that we have, we're around and available to the students all the time. We help get them the individual attention that they need to succeed. Our program succeeds by what our students do when they leave here and that's kind of how I measure our success."

- John Cooper, Professor
School of Music