Health Sciences
Massage-A-Thon running through April 13
The Department of Physical Therapy will put on its Massage-A-Thon fundraiser from Monday, March 20, through Thursday, April 13. The event runs Monday through Friday each week (excluding April 5-10 for Easter Break) in Schroeder 396 at the following times: Mondays: 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays: 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays: 5 p.m. to…
Marquette faculty and staff research grants from December 2022/January 2023
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced the following research grants awarded to university faculty and staff in December 2022/January 2023. A Model for Humanizing Engineering Education: Broadening Engineering Teaching with Theory-based Educational Resources (BETTER) $300,000 – National Science Foundation Capturing the impact of realistic multicomponent fuels in high-pressure spray combustion simulations $318,990…
Marquette faculty and staff research grants from October/November 2022
Marquette University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced the following research grants awarded to university faculty and staff in October/November 2022. A Digital Storytelling Intervention to Promote the Health of African American Family Caregivers $50,000 – The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Sociocultural and Regulatory Implications of Direct and Indirect Potable Water Reuse…
Biomedical sciences student reflects on Global Brigades experience
Global Brigades has been a signature program for students in the College of Health Sciences since its inception at Marquette in 2003; in January, yet another cohort made their way to Panama to assist local communities. The Global Brigades organization aims to promote sustainable development in rural Central America through a wholistic model organized around…
Major study examines prediabetic fatigue and an exercise regimen that could help reverse it
A major new clinical trial led by Dr. Sandra Hunter and Dr. Christopher Sundberg investigates exercise interventions that may protect against prediabetes muscle fatigue.
Marquette researcher assisting USA Weightlifting in achieving highest goals
USA Weightlifting athletes were monitored on campus at the Athletic Human Performance Research Center as Dr. Kristof Kipp, associate professor of exercise science in the College of Health Sciences, and his graduate student research team collected data on the athletes’ exerted forces and movement patterns.
Physical therapy professor receives NIH grant to develop physical activity intervention for people with chronic knee pain
Dr. Daniel Pinto has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Marquette University research reaches new heights in 2022
Marquette is committed to fostering a thriving academic research and scholarship community.
60-second Marquette on Department of Physician Assistant Studies ‘pretend patients’
60-second Marquette is a documentary video series from the Office of University Relations focused on interesting Marquette people and stories, told in 60 seconds or less. The latest video features Mike and Carolyn, “pretend patients” in the standardized patient program for the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Mike and Carolyn pretend they have whatever ailment or…
Health Sciences faculty receive $3.02 million grant to study exercise limitations in the pre-diabetic population
Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science, and Dr. Christopher Sundberg, assistant professor of exercise science, both in the Department of Physical Therapy in the College of Health Sciences, have been awarded a $3.02 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institution on Aging to study the limitations of exercise in people…