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Apply for Center for Peacemaking course development grant
The Center for Peacemaking will award one grant for a full-time Marquette faculty member to develop a new course, or significantly revise an existing course, that explores and integrates issues of peacemaking and nonviolence. Proposals addressing human rights, community organizing, and other methods of/tools for promoting social and political justice are especially welcome. The value of the…
Walk This Way Challenge: My Wellness points and weekly giveaway available
The Walk This Way challenge encourages employees to participate in a fun, competitive step challenge. The goal of the challenge is to complete 50,000 steps each week throughout the four-week challenge. Registration opens Monday, April 24, and the challenge runs Monday, May 1, through Monday, May 29. Record 50,000 steps for each week by Tuesday,…
We Are All Marquette: Meet Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow
Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow, is working to disrupt the racial inequities that are prevalent in the field of mathematics.
AHPRC accepting applications for 2023-24 pilot awards
The Athletic and Human Performance Research Center (AHPRC) pilot award program is designed to facilitate and foster collaborative health- and performance-related research between disciplines at Marquette. Applications must be submitted by Friday, Aug. 18, at 4 p.m. Application guidelines and materials can be found on the AHPRC website.
Soup with Substance: Milwaukee as a world-class eco-city, April 26
Soup with Substance will host alumnus Erick Shambarger, Arts ’00, director of environmental sustainability for the City of Milwaukee, on Wednesday, April 26, at noon, in AMU 227, to talk about Milwaukee’s climate and equity plan and our role in it. Shambarger leads the Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO) for the City of Milwaukee. Butternut squash…
Move Out for Hunger food drive, May 1-13
Cleaning out your room and have unopened food left? Donate it to the Food Recovery Network’s Move Out for Hunger food drive from Monday, May 1, through Saturday, May 13. The Food Recovery Network is collecting unopened and nonperishable items in support of the Backpack Program. Look for the bin in your residence hall’s lobby…
Near West Side Partners announces Lindsey St. Arnold Bell as executive director
Near West Side Partners today announced that Lindsey St. Arnold Bell will serve as the organization’s next executive director. St. Arnold Bell succeeds NWSP’s inaugural Executive Director Keith Stanley, who, at the end of 2022, announced his departure from Milwaukee. “The Near West Side Partners Board of Directors is so proud that Lindsey has accepted…
U.S. News releases 2023-24 Best Graduate Schools rankings
U.S. News and World Report today released its 2023-24 Best Graduate Schools rankings, and many Marquette programs held relatively steady over last year’s rankings.
Celebrating the impact of scholarship
More than 300 alumni, parents and friends gathered in the Alumni Memorial Union last week to celebrate the impact of scholarship. Vice President for University Advancement Tim McMahon led off the annual Scholarship Celebration event, highlighting significant Time to Rise campaign progress. In the seventh year of the eight-year journey, the university has raised more…
Center for Professional Selling embraces Jesuit values
Dr. Jess Ogilvie has trained thousands of salespeople, conducted sales research as part of her doctorate and is the executive director of Marquette’s Center for Professional Selling. And yet, the first time a professor gave Ogilvie the chance to learn sales as an undergraduate at the University of Alabama, she couldn’t run fast or far…