Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack and Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Ellen Brostrom are the next featured guests for “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” at Marquette University Law School.

‘Washington Week’ moderator’s speech is part of Centennial Celebration of Women

Political journalist Gwen Ifill will deliver the annual Nieman Lecture at Marquette University Thursday, Feb. 4. The author and Washington Week moderator and managing editor will address “Politics, Policy and Reality: What’s Really Going on in Washington” at 4 p.m. in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Auditorium, 1506 W. Wisconsin Ave. The speech is free and open to the public, and a book signing will follow the lecture. No registration or tickets are required.

Vincent Lyles, president of M&I Community Development Corporation, will be the next guest for “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” at Marquette University Law School Wednesday, Jan. 27. The event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in room 325 of Sensenbrenner Hall, 1103 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Management consultant and writer Margaret Wheatley will lead the Milwaukee Community Leadership Conference, Tuesday, Jan. 26, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Marquette University’s Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Seven of the nine members of the Little Rock Nine are expected to be present for the awards ceremony. They are: Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Minnijean Brown Trickey. Health concerns prevent Melba Pattillo Beals and Thelma Mothershed Wair from attending.

This is only the fifth time Marquette has presented the Discovery Award, which was created in 1969 as part of the Tercentenary Celebration of the exploration and discoveries of Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, in America. The award honors those who achieve an extraordinary breakthrough that adds to human knowledge or the advancement of humanity. Previous recipients include the crew of Apollo 11, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin and Michael Collins, in 1969; German theologian Rev. Karl Rahner, S.J., in 1979; Mother Teresa of India in 1981; and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa in 2003.

Former professional football player Robert W. Turner will deliver “Not for Long: An Examination of Life in the NFL,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, in the Beaumier Conference Center of the John P. Raynor, S.J., Library, 1355 W. Wisconsin Ave. As Marquette University’s 2009/2010 Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellow, Turner will speak about his research on the transition to life after the NFL. The program is free and open to the public. 

Turner is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the City University of New York working to complete his dissertation. Turner played professional football for four years during the late 1980s in the United States Football League, Canadian Football League and the National Football League.