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Late Night Marquette events for April 28-30
Late Night Marquette is an organization on campus that provides fun events, excursions and activities. This year things have changed a little. You no longer have to sign up to come to Late Night Marquette events! Just check the date and time the event you want to attend is happening, come by yourself or grab some friends…
NASPA First Scholars presentation on first-generation students, May 12
In 2020-21, Marquette University was recognized as a First Gen Forward institution by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). Joining the third cohort of NASPA First Scholars in 2021, members of the institution completed the First Scholars Insights Tool which provides a deep dive into how the institution programmatically serves first-generation students…
Community collaborators
Nursing faculty work with Milwaukee community partners to focus their research on real-time health care needs in the neighborhood. By Lauren Sieben For some people, the idea of “research” might conjure images of professors running experiments in a lab or reviewing academic studies in their office. While these are common components of conventional research, these…
A window of opportunity
Five years after it launched, the hybrid direct entry master’s program is providing new career options for students and growing enrollment. By Hal Conick Stella Chira dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was a little girl. Growing up in Nigeria, she’d fondly watch her aunt go to work as a nurse in her white uniform,…
An eternal learner
From the medical-themed TV shows she watched during the 1970s, Mary Astor Gomez, Nurs ’82, got the distinct impression that nursing was an exciting and important profession. She has since confirmed that impression, over the course of a varied career that took her from the neonatal intensive care unit to a pediatric air ambulance and…
A vision for virtual health care
A new startup accelerator in the College of Nursing positions Marquette to help lead the growth of digital care. By Tracy Staedter In early 2020, nurse practitioner Dr. Jennie Peters, clinical assistant professor, was working part time for a family practice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and also managing her own medical weight-loss business. Then COVID-19 came…
Call it a comeback
After a life-changing injury, a resilient nursing student aims to give others the same extraordinary care she received. By Claire Nowak, Comm ’16 Nursing student Annie Bruce recently finished a 2-mile run. It may not seem a long distance to some, but it’s a notable milestone — considering that a year earlier, she couldn’t…
In attendance and making a difference
Marquette Nurse-Faculty-in-Residence pilot makes an impact on Milwaukee’s Near West Side.
Strength training for resiliency building
As recent research finds Wisconsin incarcerates people of color at some of the highest rates in the nation, an interdisciplinary team of Marquette researchers is investigating how an empowerment program might positively impact women adversely affected by these incarceration numbers. “Women in Milwaukee experience trauma when they or family members are part of the incarceration…
Undergraduate research prepares future nurses
Marquette’s College of Nursing gets undergraduates involved in cutting-edge research.