Marquette’s Haggerty Museum of Art hosted NAACP conventioneers in July to celebrate Gwendolyn Magee, an artist who has stitched the experiences of African-Americans into incredible quilts.

She let God be the reason

“I was praying and as soon as I got up off my knees my mom said, ‘Marquette is on the phone.’”

Scholarship paves the way

All roads can lead to Marquette and now a new scholarship endowed by retired Milwaukee news anchor John McCullough and his wife, Sandy, will help talented students from Wisconsin’s big and small communities come to campus.

The indispensable RA

RAs let students know about all of the social activities available to them in the halls and on campus, including ministry, community service, recreational sports and student organizations.

Giving Hurricane Relief

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Marquette community demonstrated the Catholic, Jesuit mission of serving others in need by accepting nearly 100 students from universities affected by the storm and reaching out to employees with immediate families whose homes were destroyed.

Swift's classic has new home

Thanks to Dr. William Schull, Arts ’46 and Grad ’47, and Victoria Schull, a 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (better known as Gulliver’s Travels)  is now part of University Special Collections. Marquette is the only library in Wisconsin, and one of just 20 in North America, to own early editions of the classic.

On writing effectively

Dr. Rebecca Nowacek career as an assistant professor of English with a focus on teaching rhetoric and composition was recognized this year with the extreme honor of being named a Carnegie Scholar (one of just 21 faculty selected from more than 300 applicants worldwide) by the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The brain and alcohol

One glass of wine may help you relax, two may make you silly, and three may affect your judgment. Why? Dr. Robert W. Peoples may soon have the answer. He has been awarded a $1.34 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study the effect alcohol consumption has on the brain.

Scholars globe trot

Dr. Raju Thomas and Dr. Irfan Omar will call roll in classrooms far from campus this fall as Fulbright Scholars in residence at the University of Belgrade and Muhammadiyah Malang University in Indonesia, respectively.

Art, faith, justice intersect

The Department of Performing Arts has given this awesome task an artful twist, and with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts and Alverno College launched a year-long, city-wide festival and academic conference designed to engage students and the community in an exploration of art, faith and social justice.

It's about shaping moral character

The 2006 special edition of America’s Best Colleges produced by U.S. News commits three pages to Marquette under the banner headline “Learning to Serve.”

Symbols of friendship

They were once RAs busy planning icebreakers for O’Donnell Hall’s freshman women. In the experience of building a hall community, they built one among themselves.