Stephen Filmanowicz
Marquette engineering faculty bring back insights from the field
Dr. Patrick McNamara, Eng ’06, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, could have spent his yearlong sabbatical advancing his research on water treatment and microbial resistance or collaborating with colleagues in a lab at another university. Instead, McNamara took a temporary post at Black & Veatch, a global engineering, procurement, construction and consulting firm…
Marquette’s prison-to-college program: How and where it’s making a difference
An idea sparked 10 years ago by a philosophy course blending students from Marquette and the Milwaukee Women’s Correctional Center has burgeoned into a program aimed at nothing short of transforming lives. Supported by $3.2 million in grant funding, including $2 million from the Mellon Foundation, the Education Preparedness Program has brought together 280 incarcerated…
Research that Walks With the Excluded: Marquette’s Intersection faculty conversation
After members of the Society of Jesus joined in discernment with lay partners to renew and refocus the society’s mission priorities, they identified Walking With the Excluded as one of four core Universal Apostolic Preferences for 2019-2029, along with Showing the Way to God, Journeying With Youth and Caring for Our Common Home. This preference calls Jesuit-led communities everywhere to…
The Hub That a Neighborhood Built
As a Marquette undergraduate, Rick Wiegand, Bus Ad ’81, walked the streets near campus, admiring historic buildings. He launched Wiegand Enterprises during his senior year to fix up properties and lay the groundwork for a career as a real estate developer. Fast-forward several decades and Wiegand now has that career, along with an impressive record…
Ahead of the curve: Marquette education students are ready to excel as teachers of reading in post-Act 20 Wisconsin
When the Wisconsin legislature passed Act 20 in 2023, it ushered in a statewide mandate for teachers to use a phonics-based approach when teaching elementary school students to read. The law’s requirement to base literacy instruction on the “science of reading” left elementary schools across the state scrambling to adjust their approach, and it put…
The competitor: the champion triathlete-professor conducting the first major study of the health challenges of former college athletes
Dr. Jacob Capin was finishing up his usual morning bicycle ride, zooming up from the lake toward the Marquette campus and thinking about his research as an assistant professor of physical therapy, when a large black pickup truck blew through a red light and plowed into him. “It launched me up into the air, and…
How one nurse’s screening model is changing the way hospitals protect children from potential abuse
Nursing alumna Dr. Sheri Carson-Beauto created a groundbreaking ER screening to identify abuse risks before harm happens.
Climbing the lattice of success: Alumna Kathryn Campbell uses Marquette Business’ principles to guide change at Clarios
When Kathryn Campbell arrived on Marquette’s campus, she had a career goal in mind: make $40,000 a year. “I remember thinking that if I could just make $40,000 per year, I would be set for life,” Campbell says. “Let’s just say inflation and experience changed that perspective.” It was nonetheless a motivating goal for a young woman…
Compass in hand: President Kimo Ah Yun’s remarkable pathway in life and higher education
Find your compass. The phrase has been visible on campus this spring, featured on websites and printed in thousands of programs for the inauguration of Dr. Kimo Ah Yun as the 25th president of Marquette. Before it became part of the theme for the event — Open Your Heart. Find Your Compass. Change the World…
Digital media students find their talents much in demand
Even before he graduated from Marquette this spring, digital media major Collin Nawrocki already had an impressive resume as a video producer. For three years, he interned for Marquette Athletics, creating photo and video content under fast-paced conditions for the men’s basketball team; he was a graphics intern at Plum Media, a Milwaukee-based video production…