The fall 2025 edition of Marquette Magazine was recently published and is now available online.
Copies are available on campus at the Zilber Hall security desk, AMU Information Center and outside Zilber Hall 235. Please contact Stacy Tuchel, executive assistant in the Office of Marketing and Communication, if you would like a copy sent via campus mail.
Inside the issue
Stay Awhile: How Marquette has transformed its campus
The university’s physical transformation over the past decade has been about more than traditional bricks and mortar. Spaces are welcoming people like never before. It’s a campus made more inviting by design.
Relationships. Growth. Victory. Marquette and Coach Shaka Smart are showing college basketball a different way to win on and off the court — Our Way.
The Hub That a Neighborhood Built
A renovated jewel of a building, Concordia 27 brims with Marquette and community connections. It’s the culmination of the Near West Side Partners’ decade-long drive to improve life in the neighborhood.
The long way home: Pro soccer star James Nortey turned culture coach
From his early days surviving on Ghanaian streets to his years leading Marquette to soccer glory and going pro, James Nortey soaked up many life lessons. Now, he prepares students for journeys just like his.
Found and lost: The search for the fallen diamond
A professor lost a piece of herself when the diamond fell from her engagement ring into the vast expanse of campus. Then, a resourceful Marquette crew came together and started searching.
Research that Walks With the Excluded: Marquette’s Intersection faculty conversation
A Jesuit call focused on poverty resonates with faculty researchers at Marquette.
Raising the next researcher: Enabling students to give back big through research
Mentored by accomplished faculty scientist Dr. Anita Manogaran in research focused on aging, Natalia Beans is preparing to give back to the community that cared for her.
Dr. Amelia Zurcher, director of the program, believes providing interdisciplinary course work, experiential learning and community-building opportunities — the program’s three pillars — to curious, eager-to-learn students is key to the Honors Program’s growth.
Pintar’s research on crash test dummies helps shape the safety regulations that govern every vehicle on the road — and have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Rooted in recovery: How mementos of Chris Farley returned to campus
Why recovery advocate Tom Farley was inspired to leave behind two reminders of his brother Chris at Marquette’s new wellness facility.
Best in show: How an alumna and her terrier surprised at the world’s biggest dog show
Antoinelle Vulpis and her trusted dog, Archer, took the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show by happy surprise.
