There are awesome opportunities this year for young Quad-Cities filmmakers to gain valuable experience and have fun with Fresh Films! Here’s the latest opportunity: On-Set Filming Apprenticeship Opportunity for youth ages 13-19 What: film scenes from our upcoming feature film, Ghostland, written by Emmy Award-winning writer Rick Cleveland (The West Wing, Six Feet Under). Teens […]
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – A Western Illinois University faculty member is part of a social media research study recently published in the journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Associate Professor Christopher Carpenter and Erin L. Spottswood, a faculty member at Portland State University in Oregon, co-wrote “The Hyperperception Model: When Your Partner’s New Friends Inspire […]
The FRIENDS of the Davenport Public Library Bookstore at the Eastern Ave. Library (6000 Eastern Ave.) will be holding a buy one get one free sale on Saturday, July 24th from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Plus, all items at the Eastern Ave. Bookstore will be 50 cents and under that day only, with special […]
Going to school in Rock Island and Milan? RIMSD #41 is hosting a virtual community information session about the 2021-2022 school year on Wednesday, July 28. Join them at 6:30 pm! Event info: https://www.rimsd41.org/apps/news/article/1465283
BREAKING NEWS: Augustana College is the first in the nation to partner with Degree Insurance and offer “income insurance” for new students who transfer to Augustana. This effort involves Degree Insurance’s flagship insurance product, American Dream Insurance (ADI), the private Rock Island school announced Tuesday. The Transfer Student Income Assurance Program is a pilot program […]
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL — Amber Schultz, former vice president for enrollment management at Edgewood College, Madison, WI, has been named Western Illinois University’s new vice president for enrollment management, effective Aug. 1. Schultz served as the vice president for enrollment management at Edgewood College from 2019 through 2021. In this role, she led the enrollment management […]
DAVENPORT, IA – Registration for the upcoming school year for Stepping Stones, a Davenport-based after-school program, will open at 8 a.m., Monday, July 19. Registration will be conducted online only at http://www.davenportschools.org/steppingstones. Stepping Stones serves preschool and elementary students in the Davenport Community School District and is open from 2:50 to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, […]
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL — COVID-19 has created challenges for many college students and their families across the nation, and Western Illinois University is working to ease the financial stress that is affecting its students as a result of the pandemic. According to WIU Financial Aid Director Bobbi Smith, the WIU Office of Financial Aid has in […]
Stress management, health improvement, and other benefits are all associated with the practice of Yoga. On Wednesday, July 21st, the Bettendorf Public Library will host a virtual Yoga session led by the owner of Sunlight Yoga Center at 5:00 p.m. The online, live Hatha class will be appropriate for all levels of ability for teens […]
In a message from Western Illinois President Guiyou Huang, he mentions that WIU students and staff are expected to be vaccinated against covid going into the fall semester. His message in full, released yesterday, reads: Dear University Community, As we prepare to resume the traditional in-person experience this fall at Western Illinois University, to further […]
