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Marquette bookshelf: ‘Push the Tarp: A story about fostering authentic leadership and great teams’
By Tim McMahon, vice president for university advancement “Push The Tarp” is a novel about a 20-year-old who is faced with adversity, and through a fortunate turn of events learns from an unlikely mentor who teaches him a proven approach to authentic leadership and building great teams. In this truly heartwarming and relatable journey, Tim…
Marquette Bookshelf: “Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six”
By Maya Payne Smart, affiliated faculty in educational policy and leadership, College of Education “Reading for Our Lives” challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through…
Marquette Bookshelf: The Trinity in History Vol. 3: Redeeming History
With this volume, Rev. Robert Doran completes his three-volume work The Trinity in History.
Marquette Bookshelf: Biomedical Engineering Design
By Dr. Jay Goldberg, professor of practice in biomedical engineering, Opus College of Engineering “Biomedical Engineering Design” presents the design processes and practices used in academic and industry medical device design projects. The first two chapters are an overview of the design process, project management and working on technical teams. Further chapters follow the general order…
Marquette Bookshelf: ‘A Man Walks Into a Barn: Navigating Fatherhood in the Flawed and Fascinating World of Horses’
By Chad Oldfather, professor of law, Marquette University Law School A book for parents, whatever their children’s interests, and for equestrians, who know what it’s like “on the inside” (but maybe not what it’s like on the outside, looking in), A Man Walks into a Barn is a wise, witty, and, at times, critical look at both…
Submissions wanted for Marquette Bookshelf
The Office of Marketing and Communication has developed a new feature for Marquette Today, highlighting books written by Marquette faculty and staff. If you wrote a book that has been recently published, or will be published soon, please consider submitting for inclusion in the Marquette Bookshelf feature. Books that will be considered are: Traditionally published…
Marquette receives $1 million gift in honor of late alumnus, friend and trustee Harvey J. Anderson II
President Kimo Ah Yun announced today that the university has received a $1 million gift from Denelle Dixon, wife of Harvey J. Anderson II.
Marquette Bookshelf: Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945
Co-edited by Dr. Sergio González, assistant professor of Latinx Studies in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the post–World War II era. It shows that the religious…
Compass in hand: President Kimo Ah Yun’s remarkable pathway in life and higher education
Find your compass. The phrase has been visible on campus this spring, featured on websites and printed in thousands of programs for the inauguration of Dr. Kimo Ah Yun as the 25th president of Marquette. Before it became part of the theme for the event — Open Your Heart. Find Your Compass. Change the World…
Engineering team brings distinct Marquette spirit to NASA lunar robot competition
Just days after celebrating Marquette’s Commencement weekend, a team of engineering students set out to face a challenge that could test even the world’s top engineers: piloting their own robot across a simulated lunar surface while being assessed by NASA. At the invitation of NASA, it was an opportunity to showcase the team’s work on…