Carey’s academic journey has included writing numerous historical studies on American Catholic thought and its leading thinkers. He was the first to gather and compile into a seven-volume, critical edition the earliest scattered writings of Orestes Brownson. In 2004 Carey published a biography of Brownson, entitled An American Religious Weathervane: Orestes A. Brownson, (Eerdmans, 2004), which won him a first-place Catholic Press Award. Dr. Carey is currently doing research for a biography of Avery Cardinal Dulles.

Dr. Wilkie’s research is focused on fire retardancy and polymer degradation.

Plastics are found in many environments in which fires occur.  In some cases, they are used as fire retardant coatings, which eventually burn.  His research makes it harder for the plastics to burn. This is accomplished by cross-linking and increasing the number of chemical bonds that have to be broken in combustion. A variety of techniques have been used to achieve this cross-linking, including additives, gamma irradiation, thermal cross-linking, and initiator assisted cross-linking. He then studies the materials structure and its relationship to fire and temperature stability.

Dr. Wilkie was a Fulbright scholar at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1991-92.  He is a member of the editorial board and a contributing editor of Polymer News and has been involved in the organization of the annual polymer additives conference for several years. He has taught a number of short courses on fire retardancy.

Dr. Buchanan is a neurophysiologist with an international reputation in the motor control of locomotion and computational neuroscience.  To study locomotion, he uses the lamprey spinal cord.  It is his belief that by understanding the cellular mechanisms underlying spinal cord function during locomotion, we may be able to develop rational therapies for disease, degradation and injury to the spinal cord.  Since coming to Marquette he has received funding from the National Institutes of Health of more than $1.8 million to support his research.

He has trained many postdoctoral scientists and thus established fruitful collaborations with colleagues in Poland, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom.  In the summer of 1994, he visited the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Rennes, France as Professuer Invite.  In 1998, he won a Prestigious Fogarty International Senior Fellowship to spend a sabbatical in St. Andrews, Scotland, to study with Dr. Keith Sillar, a noted neurobiologist.

Dr. Buchanan has an impressive list of publications.  He is frequently asked to write state-of-the-art reviews for prestigious neurobiological journals.  He has also served as a panel member on the NIH Neurobiology Study Section and for the NSF Advisory Panel for Behavior and Computational Neuroscience.

Dr. Tran is an exceptional researcher, well-known for his innovative design of new instrumentation for use in fundamental studies in analytical chemistry and materials science. His pioneering work has resulted in the design of novel spectrometers based on thermal lensing effects and use of acoustic optical tunable filters which can be used for ultrasensitive detection of a wide variety of chemical substances. His development of multispectral imaging techniques has further led to the ability to provide spatially-resolved characterization of physical and chemical properties.

Included among the many fundamental studies he has performed with his unique instrumentation are solvent purity determination and detection of biochemically-relevant species such as chlorophyll and nucleosides.

His work addresses critical issues in many frontier areas of modern chemical research including characterization of nanoscaled materials, development of high performance chemical and biochemical sensors, and the design of environmentally-benign chemical processes known as green chemistry.

Professor Tran has received numerous awards in recognition of his accomplishments including the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s Gold Medal Award, a Shannon Award from the National Institutes of Health, an Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, Marquette University’s Sigma Xi Chapter Award for Distinguished Scientific Research Achievement, and the American Chemical Society Milwaukee Section Award.

In addition to participation of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral associates in his research laboratory, Dr. Tran has established productive collaborations with several international scientists. His research program at Marquette has attracted more than $3 million in external support from federal, corporate, and foundation sources.

Harris, a leader in orthopedic and rehabilitation research, has a personal dedication to helping children and adults with crippling diseases. His work includes helping children with cerebral palsy, lower limb amputation and brittle bone syndrome.

Harris’s work has facilitated more effective surgical procedures that help children and adolescents. Through his interdisciplinary research with institutions such as the Medical College of Wisconsin and Chicago Shriner’s Hospital, Harris has not only helped numerous patients, but helped foster and develop future researchers, medical doctors and clinical personnel.
Harris has published and presented his scholarly work widely and has received $16 million in funding.

The Lawrence G. Haggerty Faculty Award for Excellence in Research has been awarded to a faculty member every year since 1998. The award has been made possible by a generous gift from the Haggerty family and includes a $5,000 stipend for the award winner. Harris has decided to place the stipend into a new account to benefit students in his laboratory.

Rev. Roland J.Teske, S.J. is quite simply one of the most respected and prolific scholars in Medieval Philosophy today. His curriculum vitae shows that he has produced a truly prodigious output of internationally distinguished books and scholarly articles, including seven books currently in press.

He has assumed leadership in his field from his scholarship, his editorial work, and his membership in six professional societies.

The inaugural Donald J. Schuenke Professor of Philosophy at Marquette, he has also held distinguished visiting chairs at three other universities.

Fr. Teske has brought the full range of his scholarship to bear in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, in specialized courses and in the core philosophy courses required of all Marquette undergraduates. St.Thomas Aquinas once wrote that “among all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful and more full of joy.” Fr.Teske’s life has been devoted to the pursuit of wisdom. Through his scholarship and teaching, he has communicated and shared this wisdom with his colleagues and students, and, through them the world.

More recently, he has established himself, by virtue of his assiduous research and prolific publication, as one of a handful of highly respected and highly sought experts on the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. analyses are often cited by other scholars, and his commentary is often sought by both national and international media.

Moreover, his work is of public significance. As a Jesuit university, Marquette has made social justice a centerpiece of its public identity. Dr.Theoharis epitomizes this by combining his careful, accurate, and fair scholarship with a deep commitment to civil liberties and social justice.

His work informs our understanding of public policy. It stimulates us to think about the nature and purpose of our policy. It advocates a public commitment to justice and strong respect for all people.

Thus Dr. Theoharis’s scholarship serves as a model for his colleagues and students alike. A respected teacher, a trusted colleague, and an impressive researcher, Professor Athan Theoharis brings honor and international renown to Marquette University.

Professor Fitts’ research has provided leadership in sports medicine, geriatrics and long-term care, as well as the NASA space program.

His research lab, which has garnered more than $4.7 million of extramural funding, has produced the publication of more than 73 refereed journal articles, 18 book chapters, 90 abstracts, and more than 105 conference presentations.

Professor Fitts has served his discipline as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Physiology since 1983, as a member of the Editorial Board of Gerontology Journal: Biological Sciences since 1993, as a member of the Grants Review Board of the American Heart Association Wisconsin Affiliate, and a member of NIH Geriatrics and Rehabilitative Medicine Study Section Reviewer for the NIH Reserve Board.

Awards include NIH Fellow 1972 - 1975, MDA Fellow 1975 – 1976, NIH Career Development Award 1980 – 1986, NIG Senior Research Fellowship 1986-87, Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine 1999, Marquette Chapter of Sigma XI Award 1995 and the Wehr Distinguished Professor of Biology from 1997 to the present. He has served as research mentor for 10 Ph.D. students and 2 M.S. students, and all of his doctoral and postdoctoral students have secured positions in academic institutions.

He is a popular teacher, and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars come to Marquette specifically to work with him. Professor Fitts is the consummate scholar-teacher, and he brings a world-class reputation in exercise physiology to Marquette University.

Professor Kincaid is one of Marquette University’s most prolific and talented researchers.

Since arriving at Marquette in 1984 and establishing his laboratory here, he has garnered more than $3 million of extramural research funding from a dozen research projects, published 88 journal articles which have been cited more than 2400 times by other researchers, and served as research mentor for 11 Ph.D. students, 10 M.S. students, 5 undergraduates and 11 postdoctoral fellows.

Professor Kincaid’s area of research is in spectroscopic techniques of resonance Raman and timeresolved Raman spectroscopy. His work with zeolites show great promise in resolving significant issues of “back-electron transfer” which have hindered solar energy research in the past. His findings, published in Nature, have gained him international acclaim and promise to open the door to significant breakthroughs in energy research.

His zeolite research also holds promise for new areas of research in the biological sciences as well. Professor Kincaid has received numerous honors for his research including the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (1975-1978), the Wehr Professor of Chemistry Chair at Marquette from 1993 –1998, and the Milwaukee Section Award from the American Chemical Society in 1998.

He has served his discipline as an NIH peer reviewer since 1981. Professor Kincaid has served his Marquette students, and his discipline with his research, publication, service and teaching.