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Recovery at Marquette support schedule, summer events
Recovery at Marquette, founded in 2024, is a program that helps support students in or pursuing recovery from alcohol and substance use.

Marquette’s human-centered approach to AI echoes Pope Leo’s encyclical
Yesterday, Pope Leo presented Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical, which sets out the Church’s social teaching for the age of artificial intelligence.

New historical marker commemorating Milwaukee’s Open Housing Marches installed on campus
The marker is part of a broader initiative led by March On, Milwaukee, in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society.

27 inducted into Quarter Century Club
Earlier this spring, Marquette celebrated 27 faculty and staff members inducted into the Quarter Century Club, recognizing employees who have served the university for 25 years or more. The inductees were honored at the Quarter Century Club Annual Dinner, a tradition dating back to 1948, when former president Rev. Edward J. O’Donnell, S.J., shared these dedicated individuals “should be recognized…

Marquette CAREs Episode 5: Counseling and Care for a Campus Community
In the latest episode of the Marquette CARES podcast, host Kelly Albrecht welcomed Brenda Lenz, director of the Marquette University Counseling Center.

MUPD to test campuswide automatic door lockdown system on June 10 at 10:30 a.m.
The annual test will begin at 10:30 a.m. on June 10 — at that time all building doors will be locked, and card access will be denied to anyone trying to enter exterior building doors.

Minimalism and Its Limits
This is an edited text of a speech Judge Sykes gave as the B. Kenneth Simon Lecture in Constitutional Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2014, shortly before the beginning of the Supreme Court’s 10th term during the tenure of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. The full version can…

Lincoln and the Human Dimension of Law Practice
This is an edited text of remarks by Chief Judge Sykes at the Marquette Law Review banquet on March 28, 2025. One hundred and eighty-eight years ago this month, another newcomer to the profession was—like you—standing at the threshold of a career in the law. He started inauspiciously, but Providence had other ideas in mind.…

Citizens United in the Montana Supreme Court
This is an edited text of a talk Judge Sykes gave on a number of occasions, starting in November 2012. When I came to the Seventh Circuit in 2004, I had been a state court judge for 12 years—seven years on the trial-court bench in Milwaukee and five years on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. So…
