Health Sciences
Permanent daylight saving time? Not so fast, says Marquette professor who studies daily rhythms
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to the Senate to enact daylight saving time the law of the land. But research suggests that may not be the best idea.
Biomedical Sciences professor receives pair of NIH grants to study how ovarian hormones affect brain activity in aging and impact the likeliness of Alzheimer’s
Dr. Marieke Gilmartin, associate professor of biomedical sciences, has been awarded a pair of grants totaling over $700,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease.
IWL announces 2026 Interdisciplinary Summer Grant recipients
The Institute for Women’s Leadership Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program seeks to foster community-based, interdisciplinary research collaborations across the university that further our understanding of gender and/or sex and leadership in life experiences.
A playground for Stella
“Playgrounds aren’t for me.” Those words devastated Rese Schneider when her daughter, Stella, uttered them after visiting a local park together. The seven-year-old was just beginning a long, slow neurological recovery following months of unexplained illness and a delicate, grueling surgery that set Stella’s childhood development back to infancy. Stella’s disappointment sparked what will soon be Milwaukee’s first…
Staff Spotlight: Marquette staff member explores LGBTQ+ representation in Middle-earth
Staff member Grace Moone uses the university’s Tolkien Archives to showcase LGBTQ+ themes in the famous author’s works.
Faculty honored at 2026 Père Marquette Dinner
Five Marquette faculty members were recognized with the university’s highest teaching honor and one faculty member received the Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 67th Annual Père Marquette Dinner, Thursday, April 30, in the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms. In recognition of their demonstrated ability to inspire students to grow in knowledge and scholarship for the glory…
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.…
Using coded light pulses in tackling the challenge of restoring function after spinal cord injuries
Spinal cord injuries can be devastating, compromising people’s ability to walk, talk, breathe efficiently and complete daily tasks. Dr. Jordan Williams — assistant professor of biomedical engineering and one of several Marquette faculty members tackling the challenge of restoring lost function — is encouraged that scientists can now stimulate meaningful activity in muscles of individuals…
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…
2026 COMMENCEMENT STORIES | Tumor diagnosis reroutes biomedical science student’s career path
Biomedical Sciences student Nelson Smith is set to walk across the stage this spring, but not before a tumor diagnosis and a kind doctor rerouted his career path.