Rachel Gintner Orlando

Better together: ASCEnT program prepares supply chain and engineering students for business world where they’ll need each other
The concentration helps students become systems thinkers with interdisciplinary skills to lead and solve complex challenges in the tech-driven global economy. Applications open this fall.

Leading like a shepherd: Coreen Dicus-Johnson leverages her Marquette-nurtured communication skills and sense of mission to put people first in healthcare
For two decades, the CEO of Network Health has sought to expand access and make healthcare systems more humane.

When a print or punchbowl could go viral: Examining the political messages American patriots sent with their everyday items
As our nation turns 250, an exhibition by a Marquette scholar reveals how Revolution Era men and women used cherished objects to express themselves and their political passions.

Alumnus in motion: Young entrepreneur revives Chicago-area bowling alleys in successful career pivot
Marquette alumnus’ hard work in a new industry lands a lucky strike.

2026 Marquette Alumni National Awards: Honoring the recipients
Honoring alumni for their lives embodying Marquette’s mission of excellence, faith, leadership and service.

Research that heals: More faculty projects reaching for human health breakthroughs
Safeguarding postpartum mental health By Rachel Gintner Orlando It might come as a surprise how few services have been available to help safeguard maternal mental health in Milwaukee. And unfortunately, the need is great: Close to 80 percent of new mothers develop signs of depression; one in seven progresses to postpartum depression. Depression is common…

Understanding addiction’s differing grip on men and women — and how to ease it
On the road to addiction, repeated drug use has long been suspected of disrupting — and even physically changing — connections in the prefrontal cortex, the brain region involved in decision-making and impulse control. It’s also been generally assumed that male and female brains experience these changes similarly. With a $2.07 million R01 grant from…

Decoding the body’s circadian clock — and its many connections to our physical and mental health
It’s a subliminal truth we all know — we can’t function very well with less sleep or unpredictable schedules. Repeated enough, such changes have bigger effects — disrupting our bodily rhythms and contributing to alarming health consequences. Marquette is fortunate to have two faculty experts in circadian rhythms, each with distinct but complementary perspectives. Dr.…

Marquette connections: A kitchen collaboration
Twelve-year-old Carly Van Pelt may not be a Marquette student (yet!), but a university connection helped her build a business and compete on the Food Network. In 2023, Carly combined two passions, baking and animals, and created VP’s Treats to sell goodies for people and their pets. After seeing Carly put in so much work,…

A Hollywood homecoming: Prolific film and TV director Michael Schultz inspires filmmaking award
Veteran director Michael Schultz, Sp ’64, is one of Hollywood’s most prolific directors. Fifty years after his last trip home, the Milwaukee native returned for a tribute weekend in his honor.