Graduate Students

Marquette alum Dr. Jack Kelley presents chemistry seminar on leadership and innovation in medical devices
Chemistry alumnus and CEO of 3T Medical Complete Systems Dr. Jack Kelley will present the chemistry colloquium on Friday, Jan. 31, at 4 p.m. in Todd Wehr Chemistry 121. Kelley has over 19 years of leadership experience in medical devices and pharmaceutical drug delivery, with roles at Medtronic, JP Morgan, and Becton Dickinson. He has…

Naveen Bansal presents seminar on multiple hypothesis testing with application to detecting targeted genes regulated by microRNAs
Dr. Naveen Bansal, professor of mathematics and statistical sciences, will present the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences colloquium on Friday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. in Cudahy Hall 401. Bansal’s seminar will consider Bayesian Decision Theoretic methodologies for multiple hypothesis testing when there is skewness in the alternative hypotheses. An application of this for…

Ebony Ball
Join the annual Ebony Ball sponsored by the Office of Inclusion and Belonging and the Black Alumni Association on Friday, Feb. 21, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms. Dinner will be provided. Register online. The Ebony Ball is a formal event hosted during Black History Month that celebrates Black culture, beauty…

Rev. Francis Wade, S.J., Lecture
Rev. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., Francis C. Wade, S.J., Chair at Marquette and professor of history at Boston College, will deliver the 2025 Rev. Francis Wade, S.J., Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Raynor Library Beaumier Suites BC. A reception will follow. Gallagher is interested in religion and right-wing movements, the Holocaust, American…

Why Social Justice? Why Now? story exchange
Join Narrative Four at Marquette University on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. in AMU 137 for a story exchange titled “Why Social Justice? Why Now?” This event kicks off Narrative Four’s Social Justice and Social Belonging Story Exchange Series. Pre-registration is not required, but requested online. N4@MU is a partnership between Marquette’s Arrupe Center and…

Philosophy seminar on the work of the guardians in Plato’s Republic with Claudia Yau
Claudia Yau, assistant professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, will discuss Plato’s claim that forms serve as models for living and ruling at a seminar titled “The work of the guardians in Plato’s Republic,” on Friday, Jan. 31, at 3:30 p.m. in Marquette Hall 105. This event is hosted by the Department of Philosophy. Please…

‘Taking AI Agents to Production’ discussion
The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute will host “Taking AI Agents to Production” as part of its regular virtual speaker series on Tuesday, Feb. 18, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Register online by Monday, Feb. 17. This session’s speaker is Heiko Zuerker, enterprise architect principal at Northwestern Mutual, who will discuss how Northwestern Mutual has embraced generative…

Mission Week 2025: Act with Care
Mission Week kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 2, and features a full schedule of events centered around the theme of “Act with Care.” Check out the list of events below and register for them here. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Computer science seminar on heterogenous machine learning
Lecheng Zheng will present, “Heterogenous Machine Learning: Characterization, Generation and Comprehension” on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. in Cudahy Hall 417. Currently a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lecheng Zheng’s research interests include heterogeneous learning, self-supervised learning and graph mining.

Computer science seminar on cryptography and security
Neil Perry will present, “Cryptography and Security in a World at Risk” on Friday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. in Cudahy Hall 414. In this talk, Perry will explore research at the intersection of cryptography, computer security and policy, with a focus on nuclear disarmament verification and the security of AI-assisted code development. Cryptography enables…