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Office of Engagement and Inclusion hosts Soup with Substance, Sept. 29
The Office of Engagement and Inclusion will host a Soup with Substance panel discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at noon in AMU 163. In honor of Latinx heritage month, Dr. Julissa Ventura, assistant professor of education, will share her findings from a study with bilingual support staff in three high schools in Wisconsin. She’ll speak to what…
Dr. Cedric Burrows honored with National Council of Teachers of English award
Dr. Cedric Burrows, associate professor of English, has been honored with the 2021 National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Distinguished Research Award. The 2021 NCTE Awards recognize the profession’s leaders for their commitment and dedication to advancing literacy, the field of education or their organization. This prestigious award recognizes the groundbreaking…
Dr. Shivam Mehta honored with first prize at international orthodontics conference
Dr. Shivam Mehta, clinical assistant professor for dental developmental sciences, received first prize at a prestigious international conference, the Association of Orthodontists (Singapore) Congress (AOSC). Featuring the best in the field of orthodontics, the 2021 AOSC Scientific Poster Competition saw 19 presenters. Dr. Mehta’s work won first place. An overview of the conference is available online.
Retirement reception for Janice Welburn is Oct. 19
All members of the Marquette community are invited to celebrate the distinguished career of Janice Welburn, dean of libraries, and wish her a happy, well-deserved retirement after 15 years of service to Marquette. The reception will be Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a program at 3:30 p.m., in the Beaumier Suites, Raynor…
‘Café con Leche: Support for Spanish Speaking Community’ is Sept. 28
The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion will host “Café con Leche: Support for Spanish Speaking Community” on Tuesday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to noon in the Center of Engagement and Inclusion, AMU 111. The event will feature good food and conversation on Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month. Spanish speakers and Spanish learners, independent of…
Apply for Civil Rights Pilgrimage by Oct. 4
Applications are open for the Center for Peacemaking’s Civil Rights Pilgrimage, a domestic immersion experience where participants will traverse the U.S. south to experience places and learn about people that comprised the U.S. Southern Civil Rights Movement. This week-long program will take place from Jan. 5-12 and is open to undergraduate and graduate students. The…
High-performance computing resource Père will be decommissioned Oct. 15
After over a decade of service, running almost 2 million individual simulations and contributing to over 200 peer reviewed publications, Marquette’s centralized high-performance computing (HPC) resource Père is being decommissioned on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. With the acquisition of the new HPC resource Raj, the cost to maintain Père outweighs the benefits it provides. Current Père users will…
Biological science professor receives $950,000 NSF grant
Dr. Anita Manogaran, associate professor of biological sciences in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a $950,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to address fundamental questions about how cells respond to and manage misfolded and aggregating proteins. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or amyloidosis are aging disorders that are linked…
Marquette Bookshelf: Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
Co-edited by Dr. James Marten, professor of history in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences
Nominate sophomores to apply for E-Lead
Faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate current sophomores for the Excellence in Leadership (E-Lead) program by Monday, Sept. 27. The program seeks driven and passionate students who are committed to collaborating with others to seek innovative solutions that address today’s most pressing challenges. Students who are nominated will receive direct invitations to apply…