Awards and Honors
Student wins national
humanitarian award
 Kummer takes service to heart
A Jesuit education teaches service to others — and going wherever the need is greatest to do it. Marquette students adopt that philosophy pretty quickly, and senior Tim Kummer really took it to heart. He went to Africa to witness the HIV/AIDS pandemic and then returned to campus and, with friends, founded a student organization committed to gathering books and building a library in Kenya. He changed his major to nursing so that he could participate in the health care of suffering people. Last spring he led a group of 22 Marquette students working on disaster relief in New Orleans.
His commitment was honored with a Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award presented by Campus Contact, a national coalition of university presidents dedicated to fostering civic responsibility and community engagement.
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