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Have an item to submit to Campus Connection? Just fill out the online form. Also see the publication schedule, deadlines and more at wiu.edu/connection. Latest WIU Headlines Get University News in Your In-Box By subscribing to the E-News Notification Service, you will receive an e-mail containing the day's headlines and upcoming events each weekday afternoon. Resources for Faculty & Staff Beyond the Bell Tower Read about how faculty, staff and students are going "Beyond the Bell Tower" by visiting University Relations' blog. | News for the WIU Campus CommunityOct. 15, 2010 • Vol 26, No.4 University NewsPresidential Search Meetings NoticeThe Western Illinois University Presidential Search committee and members of the Board of Trustees met Oct. 11 and 12, and will meet Thursday, Oct. 21 and Friday, Oct. 22 in closed session, in accordance with the Illinois Open Meetings Act, to discuss personnel issues. WIU Receives Grant for Prevention of Violence Against WomenWestern Illinois University has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), to help further reduce incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. WIU Libraries to Host Forensics Exhibit and Speaker SeriesUniversities Libraries' Physical Sciences Library will host the 2010 Forensics Exhibit and Speaker Series from Friday, Oct. 15 through Monday, Nov. 15 on the WIU-Macomb campus. Notices, Reminders and Upcoming EventsMicrosoft Home Use Program Available for EmployeesWIU faculty, staff, graduate students and teaching assistants may now download specific Microsoft software for just $9.95, thanks to an arrangement between Western's University Technology (uTech) division and the Microsoft Home Use Program. Love Your Body Day 2010 - Fit It In Your Lunch HourSample fitness classes, open free to the University and Macomb communities, will be offered Wednesday, Oct. 20 at the Spencer Student Recreation Center. Spring Fever in the FallMarietta Loehrlein, WIU professor of agriculture, will present a session on proper planting of bulbs for a beautiful flowerbed in the spring, Monday, Oct. 25. Flu Shot ClinicFlu shots will be available to all WIU employees/retirees and other state agency employees Monday, Nov. 8. Social Security and Medicare Presentation Nov. 10A Social Security representative will give a presentation and question-and answer-session on Social Security and Medicare. Entry Deadline Nov. 18 for Triennial Photographic CompetitionThe WIU Art Gallery invites all serious amateur and professional photographers to enter prints for the 19th triennial photograph competition, "The Photograph as an Art Object." The entry deadline is 4 pm. Thursday, Nov. 18. Applied Exercise Physiologist to Discuss Exercise BenefitsMelinda Millard-Stafford, professor and associate chair of the School of Applied Physiology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver the third annual Cheryl J. Cohen Lecture Monday, Oct. 18. "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" ExhibitThe traveling exhibition of "Abraham Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War," is on display now through Nov. 19 in Western's Leslie F. Malpass Library. Horn Field Campus Corn Maze OpenThe popular corn maze at Western Illinois University's Horn Field Campus (HFC) will be open from 1-4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday through the end of October. Graphic Novel Discussions at University LibrariesUniversity Libraries' series of graphic novel discussions in Leslie F. Malpass Library Room 180. Faculty and Staff NewsChanges in Civil Service PersonnelHuman Resources' listing of new employees, reassignments and promotions, and other recent changes in Civil Service personnel is now available. Civil Service Employee of the MonthJody Zscheck, a graphic designer associate in Campus Recreation, has been named the WIU October Civil Service Employee of the Month. Division of Student Services AwardsThe Division of Student Services named Don Myers, University Union Bookstore, one of its Employee of the Month recipients for September. View the list of Student Services award recipients here.
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