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 […]
We Are All Marquette: Building networks — the Minority Scholar Mentorship Program
By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion A newly formed student organization aims to help underrepresented students build their professional networks: The Minority Scholars Mentoring Program (MSMP). Led by Kaitlin Johnstone and Sunitha Doreivelu, seniors in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, MSMP aims to connect students of […]
We Are All Marquette: Unknown territory: A reflection from a first-generation student
University leadership shows support for student DACA recipients
Dear Marquette community: Earlier this week, the Supreme Court started hearing oral arguments in a case that will eventually determine the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We are writing to the campus community today to express Marquette’s unequivocal support for DACA recipients, their families and others who may be affected […]
We Are All Marquette: The voices we don’t hear – immigration stories captured through art
By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion A junior in the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences and a recipient of Marquette University’s Center for Peacemaking Fellowship, Johnny Irias Puerto can be found talking to the students floating around the second floor of the AMU on a September afternoon. […]
We Are All Marquette: Chante Parker breaks barrier as School of Dentistry’s first African American class president
By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion The Marquette University School of Dentistry is home to nearly 400 students — Chante Parker now has the unique privilege of serving nearly half of them as the second-year class president. She is the first African American to hold the distinction. An […]
We Are All Marquette: Beyond reporting
In 2016 when Melissa Evans, Comm ’13, was working as a health reporter for the Texas Tribune, she was asked to staff the state legislative session. Evans was eager to hear top leaders respond to a report that had recently come out about poor maternal healthcare in Texas. According to the report, pregnant women and […]
We Are All Marquette: How one student uses fashion to share her Nigerian roots and spread love to all cultures
Student Oluwapelumi Oguntade created “OLUOMO WORLDWIDE,” a fashion brand through which she seeks to spread love to all cultures. A sophomore majoring in economics, Oguntade plans to expand her business using the prize money she received for winning first place in Social Innovation through the Brewed Ideas Challenge last spring. Oguntade is originally from Nigeria […]
We Are All Marquette: Trailblazing by example
Edith Hudson in December 2018 became the university’s new police chief. Hudson has broken several glass ceilings during her 25-year career — as field supervisor in the Milwaukee Police Department’s Tactical Enforcement Unit, as the department’s assistant chief, and now as MUPD chief. Even so, she says she’s never felt like a trailblazer. “I didn’t […]
We Are All Marquette: Empowered lifting
When Alyssa Duetsch, a senior in the Diederich College of Communication and an intern in the Office of Marketing and Communication, started working on a video project about Marquette’s power lifting team, she had no idea how much the team would impact her nor the larger impact the team is leaving on the university and […]