Archives for September 2019

Reminder: sign up to receive the Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter

September 3, 2019

Last February, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion launched its Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter. The monthly newsletter highlights diversity-related events hosted by campus departments as well as student organizations. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to sign up to receive the newsletter. Sign up by emailing diversitycommunication@marquette.edu with “subscribe” as the subject line. If you already receive the […]

2019 Briggs & Al’s Run and Walk is Sept. 14

September 3, 2019

Each year, Marquette is proud to sponsor the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s annual Briggs & Al’s Run and Walk. The run and walk takes place this year on Saturday, Sept. 14, beginning at 10 a.m. The run and walk starts at 12th Street and Wisconsin Avenue on Marquette’s campus and ends at Maier Festival Park […]

Kickin’ it Jesuit style

Every Tuesday and Thursday, mostly during the school year, a group of Marquette Jesuits and colleagues gather to play soccer – a game that, although it might not seem like it, weaves together the tradition of Jesuits and the university’s mission.

Marquette Bookshelf: “Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six”

By Maya Payne Smart, affiliated faculty in educational policy and leadership, College of Education “Reading for Our Lives” challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through […]

NASA ranks Marquette’s lunar mining robot project 3rd out of 71 teams competing

After a full year of work in their capstone engineering course, the MARS (Marquette Aerospace and Robotic Systems) senior design team traveled to Florida this May to test their lunar mining robot at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. As part of NASA’s LUNABOTICS Robotic Mining Competition, the team designed and built a robot to excavate lunar […]