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Cobeen Hall to become co-ed beginning in fall 2020
In response to student feedback collected by the Office of Residence Life, Cobeen Hall will become co-ed by floor beginning with the 2020-21 academic year. This change responds directly to student feedback and will open Cobeen Hall to a new population of students. Demand for Cobeen – which is currently an all-female residence hall –…
Give Marquette Day postponed to March 3
In the wake of the tragedy at Marquette’s Near West Side Partner Molson Coors yesterday, the university has postponed Give Marquette Day until next week Tuesday, March 3 (the day of the Marquette men’s basketball game at DePaul.) Please keep the families of those affected in your prayers. University Advancement thanks the many colleagues who…
The beauty of Lent
By Rev. Frederick Zagone, S.J., university chaplain, University Advancement In the Lenten preface to the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass, we hear the words: For by your gracious gift each year your faithful await the sacred paschal feasts with the joy of minds made pure, so that more eagerly intent on prayer and on the works…
Delaware court vice chancellor to deliver Hallows Lecture, March 3
Hon. J. Travis Laster, vice chancellor on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, will present “Corporate Responsibility: Is Delaware Doing Something New?” on Tuesday, March 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lubar Center as a part of the Law School’s annual E. Harold Hallows Lecture. Laster has served as a vice chancellor…
Employee Assistance Program available for employees and family members
Led by Aurora, the Employee Assistance Program provides work-life services, short-term counseling, referrals and resource identification. Services provided are kept confidential. EAP is a benefit for all Marquette employees, spouses and dependent children. EAP offers in-person or telephone sessions with counselors. Employees can discuss concerns such as stress, relationship/family concerns, drug or alcohol issues. Work/life…
Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute launches first research projects
By Kevin Conway, associate director of university communication in the Office of Marketing and Communication The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute announced its first research projects that will use data science to address challenging societal issues that have a local and national impact. Faculty members and students from Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee,…
We Are All Marquette: Black Student Council participates in National Black Solidarity Conference
By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Earlier this month, Marquette’s Black Student Council had the opportunity to travel to the annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University, which took place Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. This completely student run conference hosts more than 700 students from all across…
President’s Challenge information session is March 6
Faculty, staff and students are invited to an information session on Friday, March 6, from 11 a.m. to noon in the 707 Hub to learn more about the President’s Challenge. Developed in partnership with the Johnson Controls Foundation, this exciting and innovative grant opportunity will provide a $250,000, two-year grant for one interdisciplinary, collaborative proposal…
Office of Economic Engagement seeking applicants for Community/Corporate Engaged Research Partnership Development Grant
The Office of Economic Engagement is now accepting applications for the Community/Corporate Engaged Research Partnership Development Grant. This grant will provide a stipend to a faculty member and community organization or corporation to co-develop a new engaged research partnership that addresses a mutually identified need. The purpose of this stipend is to expand the number…
Dr. Heidi Bostic named next dean of the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Heidi Bostic, visiting associate provost for special projects at Furman University, a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina, has been named the next dean of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Provost Kimo Ah Yun announced today. She will begin in her role on May 28. The announcement comes…