The past 12 months brought transformative changes to the College of Nursing, including the opening of our new home, David A. Straz, Jr., Hall. Here’s a recap of everything that happened in the previous year of Marquette Nursing. We look forward to serving our students and our community in even more innovative, exciting ways in 2025!
JANUARY: Dr. Callie Chiroff recognize as a Milwaukee Business Journal 40 Under 40 winner
Dr. Callie Chiroff, who joined Marquette in 2016, earned her way onto the Milwaukee Business Journal 40 Under 40 list through her work as president of Project Bubaloo, a nonprofit she founded in 2018 to fund research into congenital heart disease and provide support for families with kids that have a CHD.
FEBRUARY: Marquette College of Nursing dean named American Thoracic Society Fellow
Dr. Jill Guttormson, dean of the College of Nursing, was named an ATS Fellow by the American Thoracic Society, the world’s leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through multidisciplinary collaboration, education and advocacy.
MARCH: With new scholarship fund, Marquette Nursing looks to recruit more students from rural areas
A multi-million dollar gift from Marquette alumni Mike and Kathy Cain broadens the college’s efforts to attract and retain students from rural areas. The gift, which supports undergraduate and graduate students, can be applied to the cost of tuition, housing or any other necessary educational expense.
APRIL: Photo Gallery: 2024 Delta Gamma At-Large Nursing Honors Ceremony
We were thrilled to welcome new members to the Delta Gamma At-Large chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Exceptional undergraduate and graduate nursing students from Marquette University and Alverno College were invited to join the organization, which has approximately 135,000 active members from around the world.
MAY: College of Nursing community says farewell to Emory T. Clark Hall
Over the last four decades, thousands of Marquette Nurses have been educated in hundreds of thousands of class sessions in Emory T. Clark Hall. While the building was officially decommissioned at the end of the 2023-24 academic year, the memories created there will last long after the last office has been cleared out.
Dr. Stacy Barnes, associate professor of practice and director of the Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center in Marquette University’s College of Nursing, has received a $5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to educate and train the health workforce, address care gaps, and improve health outcomes for older adults. Approximately $1.7 million of this award will be dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
JULY: DNP projects make a difference for patients, health systems
Doctors of Nursing Practice put their problem-solving skills to the test with impactful, evidence-based projects. After completing quality improvement, informatics, epidemiology, and several other important doctoral-level courses, students create a proposal to identify and generate solutions to a problem in their own health care organizations, work with key personnel to implement them and systematically evaluate the results.
AUGUST: Marquette College of Nursing opens doors to new home in Straz Hall
The College of Nursing has officially welcomed students into its new home in the reimagined David A. Straz, Jr., Hall at the start of this semester. The building underwent a radical transformation after serving as home to Marquette Business since its initial construction in 1951.
This 103,000-square-foot, five-story building now houses a blend of general use classrooms, skills practice labs, health care simulation spaces, administrative offices and student study areas.
Assistant Professor Dr. Kathryn Malin has been awarded a K23 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the cumulative impact of maternal social determinants of health and early life toxic stress in the neonatal intensive care unit on epigenetic alterations in preterm infants and their mothers.
The College of Nursing received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support an expansion of its simulation center and equipment investment.
The funds provided for the Health Education and Retention Optimization through Equipment and Simulation (HEROES) project will enable the college to address a nursing shortage in Wisconsin and across the nation by meeting its goal of preparing 5,000 entry level nurses to enter the workforce in the next decade.
NOVEMBER: Alumni help form future Marquette Nurse Practitioners through preceptorship
Marquette Nursing guarantees that all students will be placed with a preceptor for their required clinical hours, which would not be possible without droves of advanced practice nurses agreeing to serve as mentors. Many of them are Marquette alumni.
“When you become a nurse, you take an oath to help those around you, and that includes the students who are going to be coming into professional practice,” says Katie Alvarez, a nurse practitioner who graduated from Marquette and has precepted for nine years.
DECEMBER: DE MSN graduates receive diplomas in end-of-program celebration
The Milwaukee cohort of the Direct Entry Master of Nursing program walked across the stage in the Alumni Memorial Union on Friday, Dec. 13.
Students in this cohort came from Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico and locations abroad to receive their degrees.
