Health Sciences
A lesson in cultural humility and global citizenship
The students affectionately called him “Mr. Gabriel.” Each day for a week last spring, the former architect traveled hours through his native Belize to a clinic where a team of Marquette Occupational Therapy students aided in his recovery following a stroke he suffered months prior. Mr. Gabriel’s story is not unique in Belize or anywhere…
The competitor: the champion triathlete-professor conducting the first major study of the health challenges of former college athletes
Dr. Jacob Capin was finishing up his usual morning bicycle ride, zooming up from the lake toward the Marquette campus and thinking about his research as an assistant professor of physical therapy, when a large black pickup truck blew through a red light and plowed into him. “It launched me up into the air, and…
A message from College of Health Sciences Dean William E. Cullinan
Dear alumni and friends of Marquette’s College of Health Sciences, I hope you have enjoyed the summer months. Here in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette, we are thrilled to welcome more than 370 new students and show them what it means to put into practice magis — to do more in terms of…
AHPRC announces 2025-26 Pilot Award winners
The AHPRC Pilot Award program is designed to facilitate and foster collaborative health and performance-related research.
Professor receives $2.7 million grant from NIH to improve independent breathing function following cervical spinal cord injury
Dr. Kristi Streeter is an assistant professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences.
OT adaptive sports camp fulfills need in Milwaukee community
For the past few years, Adela Villanueva Perez has been frustrated by how difficult it is to find fun and social activities for her son Carlos. Carlos was diagnosed with autism at four years old and solely because of his diagnosis, he hasn’t been allowed to participate in programming for kids his age. “In the…
2025 Explorer Challenge winners announced
The Explorer Challenge 2.0, Marquette’s long-running seed funding program, selected three projects to support.
Fast facts on first-year graduate, professional students
This fall, more than 1,200 students arrived on campus to pursue graduate and professional degrees at Marquette.
College of Health Sciences student awarded $60K NIH grant
Doctoral student Bridgitte Côté has been awarded a $67,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of chronic stress on the brain as part of her research with mentors Dr. Matthew Hearing and Dr. Robert Wheeler. Côté is pursuing her Ph.D. in neuroscience after completing her undergraduate degree at Arizona State…
Physical Therapy professor awarded Department of Defense research grant
Dr. Kristi Streeter, assistant professor of physical therapy, is expanding her research on breathing after spinal cord injuries with a new grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. Streeter’s new grant is worth $436,808 and focuses on whether combining two therapies leads to tangible improvement in patients’ health. “Leveraging our previous research into breathing therapies,…