This summer, Marquette Army ROTC cadets experienced adventures of a lifetime. Through military exchange programs, they trained with foreign militaries, taught English and performed humanitarian work in Africa, Asia and South America. Stressing a culture of inclusion and diversity, Marquette’s Army ROTC has a long history of giving its cadets international experience through these unique […]
Marquette Momentum: Rice Rice Baby — A professor’s unlikely experiment is changing Wisconsin agribusiness
By Joe DiGiovanni, JOUR ’87 Dr. Michael Schläppi, professor of biological sciences, started harvesting his second one-acre crop of rice from a farm in Mequon in late September, projecting to triple or even quadruple the yield from a year ago. Due to earlier planting and improved treatment of young seedlings, this year’s crop might yield 3,000 […]
Marquette Momentum: Supporting student success
Engineering Student Success Center provides space and resources to give engineering students an ‘extra boost’ By Alexis Schlindwein, COMM ’13 Along a back-lit whiteboard spanning the length of the room, a tutor works a statistics problem. At the next table, students are working through thermodynamics homework. In the study room at back, a group of engineers […]
Building boom: Master Plan construction update
With a host of construction projects underway, Marquette’s Master Plan is transforming campus It may not have been teeming with students, but Marquette University was abuzz this past summer. The usual campus chatter gave way to the sounds of bulldozers and jackhammers as construction and landscaping crews worked on the Athletic and Human Performance Research […]
Grant funds new WaterCARE program to advance water-related research
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District has selected to fund the new Water Coordinated Activities on Research for the Environment (WaterCARE) project in the Opus College of Engineering’s Water Quality Center. MMSD will provide approximately $250,000 a year over the next five years to support Marquette faculty in water-related research. The WaterCARE project, which will issue […]
Marquette Momentum: With mission at its core, Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic lifts up area businesses
Thanks to professor Nathan Hammons and a group of Marquette Law School students, it’s becoming a little easier for Milwaukee entrepreneurs — particularly those in the central city — to get their ideas off the ground. Hammons, the director of Marquette’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic, previously worked in private practice as an attorney for entrepreneurs […]
Marquette Momentum: Coming soon… Behind the scenes of Wild Commons
Marquette University’s newest residence hall facility, Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J. Commons, will open to students in August 2018. The $108 million, 890-bed state-of-the-art facility is the first major construction project outlined in the university’s Campus Master Plan and the first residence hall constructed by Marquette in more than 50 years. With the project nearing […]
Marquette Momentum: Sodexo serves up culinary fun and education at Innovation Kitchen
The Lunda Room in the Alumni Memorial Union now features Innovation Kitchen, an engaging and unique culinary space for students, faculty and staff to learn cooking techniques from a professional chef. During the hands-on classes, the chef guides the class step-by-step through a recipe(s). The three television screens above the chef’s station provide a bird’s-eye […]
Marquette Momentum: Marquette faculty members lead the health equity effort
As the Marquette community takes a deep dive this year on the drive to achieve health equity — through Marquette Forum events such as last week’s lectures by Dr. David R. Williams of Harvard University — Marquette’s faculty members are also tackling health disparities and social determinants of health through their community-engaged research and engagement. Since […]