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Les Aspin Center for Government

Director: Rev. Timothy J. O'Brien
Phone: (202) 544-6140
Fax: (202) 544-6265
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Through conferences, symposia, publications and the direct participation of its students, the center provides:

Dynamic, rigorous educational experience for Marquette students and others from around the country
Genuine and direct contribution to our nation's ongoing experiment in representative democracy
Unique laboratory for policy examination and the promotion of democratic values by examining how public policy emerges in a modern democratic society and how individual citizens can make themselves heard
Prepares young people to serve the public effectively and ethically, and to counter the growing cynicism toward the processes of representative government.

The center presents the Les Aspin Democracy Award to a person who has made extraordinary efforts to foster democratic values and demonstrated a high level of public service. Another award, the Les Aspin Distinguished Public Service Award, recognizes a Wisconsin person who, like the late Les Aspin, has epitomized public service in the state and whose efforts have also influenced national policy. The center is named for the late Les Aspin, who served as an assistant professor of economics at Marquette from 1969 to 1971 before beginning a political career in Congress and the White House cabinet that spanned two decades. The center was renamed to honor Aspin after his death in 1995.

Center for Dispute Resolution Education

Director: Eva M. Soeka, associate professor of law
Phone: (414) 288-5535
Fax: (414) 288-7537
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This center combines the fields of law, business, psychology, sociology, political science, health sciences, education and communication in order to develop programs that better address today's multifaceted issues in resolving disputes.

Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship

Director: Alex Stewart, Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship and
associate professor of management
Phone: (414) 288-0670
Fax: (414) 288-1965
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The Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship's activities support new venture creation by Marquette students, faculty, -alumni and friends; out-reach to the inner city business -community; the local entrepreneurial culture; and research on entrepreneurship. The center also hosts the Golden Angels Network, a select group of Marquette alumni and friends with experience and interests in the entrepreneurial endeavors who nourish new venture development by the Marquette community.

The center hosts an annual Business Plan Competition that offers an opportunity for students, faculty, alumni and businesses to compete for cash prizes while improving their new venture business plans. Through these efforts, the Kohler Center channels the energies of Marquette students, alumni and friends into the advancement of entre-preneurship and into the creation of wealth by students, alumni and selected entrepreneurs with extremely high potential or in distressed communities. It aims to create a leading-edge learning environment based on focused coursework and hands-on experiences that -leverage its core strength: an outstanding network of -successful entrepreneurs.

Integrative Neuroscience Research Center

Director: William E. Cullinan, Ph.D.
Phone: 414-288-6764
Fax: 414-288-6564
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The Integrative Neuroscience Research Center (INRC) serves to promote the exchange of ideas among Marquette neuroscience research faculty, thereby increasing opportunities for collaborative research, attraction of high quality faculty and students, acquisition of resources, and strengthening of educational offerings in this area. The INRC is comprised of over 25 faculty members from eight academic units, and meets twice monthly around a seminar series. It serves Marquette students and faculty by providing a rich neuroscience environment, and by providing summer research apprenticeships within laboratories of center members. The INRC enables Marquette University to use its collective strength in neuroscience to establish a reputation for excellence in this exciting and expanding field.

Orthopaedic & Rehabilitation Engineering Center (OREC)

Director: Gerald F. Harris, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 414-288-0698
Fax: 414-288-0713
Contact via email: gerald.harris@marquette.edu
Website: orec.org

The Orthopaedic & Rehabilitation Engineering Center (OREC) is designed to promote
and encourage significant advances in clinical research through coordinated
endeavors between Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
These opportunities are afforded to faculty and students at Marquette University
and to faculty, fellows, and residents in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery,
and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
OREC builds upon prior successful collaborations in the fields of orthopaedic
biomechanics, biomaterials, rehabilitation engineering, and human motion analysis.

Thermofluid Science and Energy Research Center

Director: Hyunjae Park, research associate professor
Phone: (414) 288-6716
Fax: (414) 288-7790
Contact via e-mail

The center is an organization linking Marquette engineering with industrial communities. The goal of the center is to create more efficient and economical operations of energy conversion systems and heat/mass exchange equipment.

Center for Transnational Justice

Director: H. Richard Friman, Eliot Fitch Chair for International Studies and professor of political pcience
Phone: (414) 288-5991
Fax: (414) 288-3360
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The center is intended to facilitate greater understanding of the challenges and paths to achieving justice in economic, political, and social relations that extend beyond national borders.

Transportation Research Center

Director: James A. Crovetti, associate professor
Phone: (414) 288-1727
Fax: (414) 288-7521
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The Transportation Research Center, formerly entitled the Center of Highway and Traffic Engineering, was established to conduct research, perform testing and provide training in the areas of highway maintenance and operations, traffic engineering, highway pavements, materials and construction.

Research is conducted in the following areas:

Traffic engineering
Traffic control devices
Traffic safety
Highway snow and ice control
Highway design
Highway materials
Highway pavements
Concrete and asphalt technology
Highway structures
Non-destructive pavement testing
Pavement drainage systems

Materials testing is available for most highway materials, which include:

Asphalt
Concrete
Steel
Wood
Aggregates

Credit and non-credit course work and seminars are provided in:

Highway planning and design
Transportation demand management
Traffic engineering,
Pavement and bridge design
Asphalt concrete and aggregate materials and public works administration

Center for Intelligent Systems, Controls and Signal Processing

Co-director: Ron Brown, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering
Phone: (414) 288-3501
Fax: (414) 288-5579
Contact via e-mail
Co-director: James A. Heinen, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering
Phone: (414) 288-3501
Fax: (414) 288-5579
Contact via e-mail

Encourages and enhances collaboration between faculty and student researchers involved in intelligent systems, controls, and signal processing in the College of Engineering and in industry.

Activities include:

Prediction of daily natural gas usage for the Gas Research Institute and several gas utilities
System identification and control using artificial neural networks with applications to electric machines
Development of a speech processing database

Center for Mass Media Research

Director: Robert Griffin, professor of journalism
Phone: (414) 288-3453
Fax: (414) 288-3099
Contact via e-mail

The center conducts research into the roles, uses, processes and effects of mass communication.

Most Projects Involve:

Communication about health
Environment, and science
Environmental and health risks

Studies, funded by government agencies, include, the role of communication in public reactions to: health risks from consuming Great Lakes fish and tap water; risks to the environmental quality of the Great Lakes; and, flooding and ecological quality of urban watersheds.

Projects include:

Study of news media coverage of health risks from local environmental contamination
Examining the teaching of statistical reasoning in university journalism programs nationally

Center for Materials Science and Technology

Director: Martin A. Seitz, professor of electrical and computer engineering
Phone: (414) 288-5659
Fax: (414) 288-5579
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The center serves as a valuable contact point for industry, research agencies and other educational institutions to link up with the faculty talent, information base and equipment at Marquette to stimulate a more rapid transfer of new knowledge into usable technology.

Research specializes in the electrical and mechanical behavior of solids in a variety of areas of importance to the electrical and biomedical industries, including:

Biomaterials
Electronic ceramics
Solid state sensors
Structural and electrical composites

Center for Supply Chain Management

Co-director: Bharatendu Srivastava, associate professor of management
Fax: (414) 288-5754
Phone: (414) 288-3408
Contact via e-mail

The center is an industry-university collaborative venture for education, research and information sharing of supply chain management strategies, concepts, business practices and solution systems for manufacturing and service firms in the Midwest.

The Center's Goals:

to enhance the education of students in supply chain management areas
conduct research on emerging supply chain management strategies
organize multicompany projects to assess business models and successful business practices

Center for Water Quality

Director: Daniel H. Zitomer, associate professor, civil and environmental engineering
Phone: (414) 288-5733
Fax: (414) 288-7521
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Web site

The Center's Goals:

Addresses major water quality problems and issues related to both surface waters and groundwaters
Conducts water and wastewater analyses
Pilot plant studies and research projects