Rachel Gintner Orlando
Inside Marquette Mentors — students’ guiding lights
Illustrations by Luke Best As Marquette Mentors celebrates its 12th year, its growth deserves to be recognized for what it is: phenomenal. The program that started as a pilot in 2013 with 30 students, each paired with an alumni mentor, reached 200 annual matches this year — an achievement stewarded by Dan DeWeerdt, Marquette Mentors’…
K-12 schools need more special education teachers — how Marquette is answering that call
Awareness about special learning needs in K-12 classrooms has evolved significantly over the past two decades across the U.S. Educators — with support from the university-based teacher education programs that train them — have developed more precise methods and language for identifying the needs of individual students. In response, many new supports and tools are now available…
How anxious is today’s generation? Marquette’s Intersection faculty conversation
How much strain are today’s young people feeling? Quite a bit, unfortunately. National statistics say rates of depression and anxiety have soared, while closer to home, admissions officers revealed that one in three applicants to Marquette this year referred to mental health struggles in their personal essays. As parents, educators and students themselves have searched…
State-of-the art simulation center highlights the excellence of Marquette Nursing
As Nursing student Greta Amstutz entered her sophomore year, she looked forward to the role that simulation would play in preparing her to be a great nurse. Building on the fundamentals and foundations in nursing she’d already learned her freshman year, simulation would make her classroom course work come to life. She was ready for…
A Kohler-Marquette partnership turns strong engineers into skilled leaders
A great engineer doesn’t naturally become a great engineering leader. As Joel Smith, vice president of engineering at Kohler Co., says, much of the company’s success rides on teaching people to be great at both. “Too often we assume engineering leadership happens by osmosis, but that’s just not the case,” Smith says. “It takes hard…
Researching the surprising ecological afterlife of elephants
In March 2024, in the middle of Novalee Sweeney’s first trip to South Africa’s Kruger National Park, the Marquette microbial ecology doctoral student stumbled into the middle of both a tragedy and an opportunity. While returning to camp, she and other members of an international research team encountered a group of park rangers gathered around…
Ready for AI’s role in the business world
When ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, it sent shockwaves through the business world. As companies around the world continue to grapple with how to use artificial intelligence in their day-to-day operations, students from all majors in the Marquette College of Business Administration are learning to harness the technology. And beginning this semester, a new AI…
A Reunion — Across Time
When Alex Gambacorta left the Apsáalooke Reservation in Montana, she thought she was closing a chapter on the special place she’d served for a year. But back at Marquette, pieces of Apsáalooke history were waiting to be discovered — and a new journey with the tribe was about to begin. Red Star. Big Day. Plainfeather.…
Teaching advertising with distinction — and always on call
On the first day of each semester, Diederich College of Communication instructor Dave Wilcox shares his cell phone number right at the top of the course syllabus. “If you’re sending a panicky text from Raynor at 10 p.m. the night before something is due,” he tells students, “and I can spend two minutes answering your…
The boomerang crew — athletic training graduates return for professional roles with Marquette Athletics
Noel Kruse and Eric Khondaker traveled different roads that led both to earn master’s degrees in Marquette’s Athletic Training program. Each graduated from the program with the same mission: to come back and work at their alma mater someday. “I basically said, ‘Hey, I’m a local kid. I want to be in DI athletics. If…