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Near West Side Farmers Market continues on Thursday evenings

The 2018 Near West Side Farmers Market has begun – and it is the place to be on Thursday evenings. The NWS Farmers Market features fresh, seasonal produce, ready-made dinner items, handcrafts, cooking demonstrations, live entertainment, and unique programming every week. Check out the upcoming schedule and plan a visit this summer. Be sure to […]

The Rewired Brain

Addictions permanently change the brain through a process called neuroplasticity. Dr. Matthew Hearing works alongside several Marquette neuroscientists to research the phenomenon that helps explain opioids’ tight grip on so many.

How much should we trust social robots?

Dr. Despoina Perouli is studying the robots making their way to our homes. While they’re ready to be our household assistants and companions, Perouli’s research will help make sure we don’t give away our privacy and security when we let the robots in.

Salvadoran Women Lift Themselves Up

Dr. Noelle Brigden is both a political science professor at Marquette and the women’s sub-master deadlifting champion at the Wisconsin State Fair. She began powerlifting as a remedy for chronic pain and as a source of strength against the emotional demands of her research on violence against Central American migrants. Now, she’s sharing her passion […]

MU4Gold Cultivates Students’ Research Ambitions

Kate Gustafson is one of seven members of Marquette’s inaugural class of MU4Gold Scholars, a pilot program run jointly by the University Honors Program and the College of Arts and Sciences that focuses on engaging students in faculty-mentored research from their first moments on campus. As an MU4Gold scholar, Gustafson spent her first semester at […]

Join the MUPD team for Tails on the Trail Annual 5K Run/Walk, June 23

The Marquette University Police Department has created a team for the Wisconsin Humane Society 6th Annual Tails on the Trail Run/Walk for Animals on Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m. at Veterans Park.   The event is to help raise awareness and provide donations to the Wisconsin Humane Society. The t-shirt Nattie is modeling can be purchased at MUPD for $15. Funds […]

We Are All Marquette: Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion launches Employee Resource Groups 

by Alan Chavoya, M.A. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion has launched the pilot phase of its initiative to support Employee Resource Groups. The university established these groups to support employees from a broad range of backgrounds in response to concerns about a sense of […]

Alumni couple donates $2 million to grow mental health research and launch engineering student success center

Marquette students and faculty now have heightened research and support resources thanks to the generosity of alumni Jim and Kelly McShane. The McShanes, both of whom graduated from Marquette in 1968, made two specific $1 million gifts focused on mental health research in the College of Health Sciences and on the development of more comprehensive […]

Five journalists to join the Perry and Alicia O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism

The J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication announced today that five journalists will join the Perry and Alicia O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism in August. The incoming fellows for the 2018–19 academic year are (click on the fellows’ names to view their work): Natasha Haverty, independent journalist, Boston Erin Jordan, investigative reporter, Cedar Rapids Gazette Ashley […]