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Affiliated faculty Maya Smart to discuss her new book live from the Les Aspin Center
Maya Payne Smart is a writer, parent educator and literacy advocate. Join her for a conversation about her new book, “Reading for Our Lives,” which challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate and accessible ways to nurture…

Health Sciences Summer Research Program allows students to focus on experiments while class is out
The Summer Research Program in the College of Health Sciences provides students the opportunity to engage in research more intently than they are otherwise able to during the school year.

Support Marquette retail tenants as on-campus traffic slows
Marquette is thankful for its many outstanding retail tenants here on campus. During the summer months when on-campus foot traffic is lower, please include these businesses when looking for team lunches, student incentives, giveaways and gift cards — and don’t forget to show your support all year long. Tenants include: 7-Eleven, 1624 W. Wells St. …
Register for new employee orientation July 20
Recently hired employees and newly benefit-eligible employees are encouraged to attend the Department of Human Resource’s monthly half-day orientation held in the multi-purpose room of the 313 Building (Located at the corner of 13th Street and St. Paul Avenue) on Wednesday, July 20. Orientation will cover topics such as mission and ministry, diversity, equity, inclusion…

New Marquette Magazine, Biz, Education and Nurse
The following magazines were recently published and are now available online: Marquette Magazine, Spring 2022 College of Business Administration’s Biz 2022 College of Education’s Education 2022 College of Nursing’s Nurse 2022 Please contact stacy.tuchel@marquette.edu for print copies. Also available online from the Marquette University Law School is Marquette Lawyer, Summer 2022.

Marquette CIO Laurie Panella receives ORBIE CIO of the Year award
Laurie Panella, chief information officer at Marquette University, has been named the ORBIE CIO of the Year from the Wisconsin Chapter of the Inspire CIO Leadership Network in the Large Corporate category. She was presented with her award at the Wisconsin CIO ORBIE Awards at The Edgewater in Madison on July 14. The ORBIE awards…

16th Street at Wisconsin Avenue will be closed Aug. 1 due to Marquette Business project
On Monday, Aug. 1, 16th Street at Wisconsin Avenue heading north past the midblock crossing will be closed to traffic and pedestrians as part of the College of Business Administration construction project. The entrance to the 16th Street parking structure (Structure 1) from 16th Street and the midblock crossing will be closed Aug. 1 through…

CDC, City of Milwaukee strongly recommend masks indoors due to high COVID-19 transmission
Masks are strongly recommended indoors on campus regardless of vaccination status as Milwaukee County has moved into the CDC’s “high” level of COVID-19 community spread. On July 14, the City of Milwaukee announced a mask advisory for the city that, in alignment with CDC guidance, strongly advises all individuals regardless of vaccination status or past COVID-19 infection to…

The Guiding Light
Marquette helped Nathan and Beth Colson find each other — and a supportive personal and professional foundation. By Ann Christenson, CJPA ’91 Nathan Colson remembers it vividly. Though he wasn’t on Marquette’s accounting track his freshman year, he decided to take an accounting class taught by professor Cindy Gruber (now Melis), and he had just…

Starting Something New
Entrepreneurship program and professor’s mentorship provide students the confidence to find success with new ventures. By Erin O’Donnell The summer before his sophomore year at Marquette, Charles Michael, Comm ’14, took a trip to visit friends who lived and worked in San Francisco. The experience gave him sudden clarity about his career. “It opened my…