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Marquette Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award nominations due Feb. 15
Students, faculty colleagues and department chairs can nominate faculty online for the Marquette Core Curriculum (MCC) Teaching Excellence award through Wednesday, Feb. 15. The MCC Teaching Excellence Award is presented by the MCC Committee annually to recognize faculty for outstanding contributions to student learning in the MCC. The awardee will be selected for effective…
Submit to the Marquette Literary Review by Feb. 25
Submissions are open for Marquette’s student-edited creative writing journal, the Marquette Literary Review. The Marquette Literary Review is a selective showcase of outstanding poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and visual art drawn from Marquette’s diverse community, including undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff and alumni writers. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, Feb. 25, at 11:59 p.m. More…
Marquette alumna Claire Kelly in concert, Feb. 2
Nashville-based singer/songwriter and Marquette alumna Claire Kelly is returning to campus Thursday, Feb. 2, to perform and talk about life as a full-time creative. Join Kelly for lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in Marquette Hall 111 and hear her perform at 6 p.m. in the Raynor Memorial Libraries Beaumier Suites. To attend lunch, contact…
Registration open for Salt & Light Retreat, Feb. 24-25
Get ready for Lent on this year’s Salt & Light retreat, which will focus on Mary and the Communion of Saints, those holy and human people who challenge, inspire and encourage us in Christian faith and witness. The retreat is Feb. 24-25, returning in time for the men’s basketball game that evening. This retreat will…
Learning about learning: Nursing, engineering professors receive grant for new teaching model
Much like her colleagues in the College of Nursing, Dr. Amber Young-Brice loves teaching. “I am all about teaching and learning,” Young-Brice says. Her passion goes far beyond teaching classes, though: Dr. Young-Brice’s research program involves studying pedagogy — the methods and theories of how to be an effective teacher. “Learning about learning theory and…
Celebrate Black History Month in February
Programs and events will be hosted on campus throughout February to celebrate Black History Month. Email the Center for Engagement and Inclusion to add a program or event to the calendar. Following are the scheduled events as of Tuesday, Jan. 31: Inaugural Black-Brown Get Down Wedneday, Feb. 1 | 5 p.m. at the 707 Hub Take…
Ph.D. candidate speaks on the history of hip-hop at Graham Public Library, Feb. 6
To celebrate Black History Month, Holly Burgess, a Ph.D. candidate in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English, will give an invited lecture on the history of hip-hop on Monday, Feb. 6, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Graham Public Library in Union Grove. Registration is not required. Learn more about…
Engineers Without Borders Marquette’s annual silent auction, Feb. 19
The Marquette chapter of Engineers Without Borders is hosting its 9th annual silent auction on Sunday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m. to raise funds for the current Las Cruces Pachilip water project. This project is focused on creating a sustainable water system in Guatemala to bring water from a spring miles away to the taps…
We Are All Marquette: A Q&A with Dr. Amber Wichowsky, professor of political science and the director of Marquette’s Civic Dialogues program and Democracy Lab
The Marquette Civic Dialogues program works to foster deliberation about the pressing issues facing our world today, prepare students to be citizens with purpose, and advance scholarship on the benefits of civic dialogue. Through programming and research, students are encouraged to Be The Difference by engaging differences in political thought and lived experience. Eva Antoni,…
Soup with Substance on the situation in Iran, Feb. 1
Students Armin Ebrahimian and Sahar Alishiri will lead a discussion about their experiences in Iran, the protests and how we can support the Iranian people during a Soup with Substance on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from noon to 12:50 p.m. in AMU 227. Minestrone soup and bread will be served. For more information or to join…