Dr. Adam Dempsey, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering, has been awarded a research grant worth nearly $4.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to enable innovative technology for lean-burn natural gas engines with the potential to reduce methane slip by 90% from current levels. “Prechamber Enabled Mixing Controlled … [read more]
Alumnus and NBA legend Dwyane Wade makes major gift to continue to grow literacy for inner-city children
Marquette University alumnus and NBA legend Dwyane Wade has given a major gift to the university’s Ralph C. Hartman Literacy and Learning Center to extend his Live to Dream Summer Reading Program through 2025. His gift will continue to grow the highly successful summer reading program he initially funded through the Wade’s World Foundation in 2015. Wade said that he will rename the program after his sister, Tragil Wade-Johnson, who has been actively involved since they launched the effort in 2015 to curb the “summer slide” in reading achievement among inner-city Milwaukee school children. … [read more]