Arts & Sciences
Dr. Louise Cainkar receives AMUW Nora Finnigan Werra Faculty Achievement Award
Dr. Louise Cainkar, professor of social and cultural sciences in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, was named the 2023 AMUW Nora Finnigan Werra Faculty Achievement Award recipient. She will be honored at the Association of Marquette University Women and Institute for Women’s Leadership Awards Conferral on Wednesday, May 31, at 5 p.m. in the…
Faculty team receives 2023 Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award
Faculty from the Department of Physics in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences received the 2023 Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award. Winners are: The award grants up to $20,000 toward their project, “Improving Student Outcomes in Calculus-based Introductory Physics” which will improve upon and expand changes to the introductory calculus-based physics sequence meant to decrease DFW…
Hard Lessons: addressing the national teacher shortage, May 2
Civic Dialogues will host a discussion on America’s teacher shortage featuring a panel of educators from the Marquette and Milwaukee communities on Tuesday, May 2, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the AMU Lunda Room. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. Register online. The panel will consist of:
The dean down the hall
What happened when faculty couple Dean Heidi Bostic and Dr. Stephen Pluháček traded their Milwaukee home for a campus apartment, piloting the idea of faculty living on campus to support students in their daily lives?
We Are All Marquette: Meet Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow
Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow, is working to disrupt the racial inequities that are prevalent in the field of mathematics.
U.S. Department of Education grant will help expedite training of diverse school counselors
There’s a stark diversity gap between school counselors in Wisconsin and the students they serve. A largely white pool of workers is far from representative of the demographics of many schools throughout the state. That fact can create a barrier for students seeking help. “Some recent research suggests that when students are able to access…
Strengthening the teacher workforce program, April 26
The Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education and the College of Education will co-host a program on strengthening the teacher workforce on Wednesday, April 26, from 8:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in Eckstein Hall. Register online to attend. Michael Hansen, the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Governance Studies at…
Marquette faculty and staff research grants from February 2023
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced the following research grants awarded to university faculty and staff in February 2023. FY22 Appropriations: Building Resiliency in Classroom Education (BRICE) $509,914 – Milwaukee Public Schools Refining mutation rates and measures of purifying selection with an application to understanding the impact of non-coding variation on neuropsychiatric…
Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology’s 22nd Annual Diversity Gala, May 6
The students of the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology invite you to the 22nd Annual Diversity Gala on Saturday, May 6, to help support the CECP Graduate Student Organization’s Diversity Scholarship. The event will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms. Register online before Saturday, April 29, to…
The new and growing ed studies major
The Educational Studies program offers Marquette students a nontraditional pathway – one related to education, but beyond the classroom. Graduates of the program become guidance counselors, psychologists, nonprofit administrators — and take the plunge into graduate school.