Dear alumni and friends of Marquette’s Klingler College of Arts & Sciences,
Greetings from the Dean’s Office! Our team in the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences continues to work hard, amid the many challenges facing higher education, to keep our focus where it belongs: on our students and their success.
The lasting effects of coronavirus, paired with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, have reshaped how today’s students think, learn and navigate the world. This moment calls us to design creative and meaningful new ways to engage and guide them. At Marquette, our identity as teacher-scholars uniquely positions us for this work. Our research does more than advance knowledge; it continually renews and deepens our teaching.
This issue showcases our teacher-scholars at work. It illustrates how the Jesuit value of integration — complementing rigorous intellectual inquiry with opportunities for personal and spiritual reflection — remains the heart of Marquette’s educational experience.
Dr. Deanna Arble’s prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award supports her research on how light influences human physiology in an increasingly light-polluted world. Her work — especially her innovative collaboration with the Haggerty Museum of Art — reminds us of the profound connections among body, mind, and spirit.
In English, Dr. Gerry Canavan returns to Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel, Dune, at a time when speculative fiction may feel less fantastical and more prescient. In Canavan’s class, students dig into ecology, culture, free will, and authority to confront how our future can be affected by our individual and collective choices in the present.
Our illustrated feature on the Education Preparedness Program traces Marquette’s prison-to-college pipeline, highlighting the transformative relationships our faculty nurture between learners in correctional facilities and students on campus and —demonstrating education’s power to restore dignity, imagination and hope.
Thank you for your interest in our learning community. We are grateful to share this work with you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Heather Hathaway
Acting Dean, Klingler College of Arts & Sciences
Marquette University
