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Events and News

Upcoming Events

Apply for Research Mini-Grant
Rolling Basis

The Center for Peacemaking offers research grants of up to $300 for Marquette faculty to advance research on an aspect of nonviolent peacemaking. These funds can be used for faculty research expenses or to hire a student research assistant.

Poverty Research Initiative Networking Social
Thursday, June 16, 4:30-6pm

The Poverty Research Initiative is hosting a social networking event to build community partnerships on Thursday, June 16, from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the 707 Hub. Join faculty and staff from Marquette and UW-Milwaukee and engage students in focusing on the issue of poverty in our communities. Attendees will have the opportunity to share short presentations to the audience describing their area of expertise/research and how this impacts poverty. Light appetizers and drinks will be provided. Register here.

AMP Summer Social
Wednesday, June 22, 3:30pm

Join us for the AMP Summer Social on Wednesday, June 22 at 3:30 PM in the 707 Hub. Let's network over food and drinks with fellow colleagues conducting research. This will also be an opportunity for faculty/staff to review the grant lifecycle webpage content/format that was drafted by Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, Dr. Anita Manogaran, and Kathy Durben. This event is open to all Marquette faculty no matter the department, although seating is limited to 35 people. Mark your calendars, we hope to see you there!

Success Stories

President's Difference Makers: Kelsey Otero

This Difference Maker, Kelsey Otero, fosters entrepreneurial growth and servant leadership among all those whose lives she impacts as director of innovation at our 707 Hub. She helps shape new ideas into thriving businesses and nonprofits, and she accelerates positive change within our community in her work with the Near West Side Partners. Kelsey’s interdisciplinary curiosity and ambition are invaluable to our campus and to Milwaukee.

5 Years Later: How the 707 Hub continues to be an innovative force on campus and in Milwaukee

Engineering Professor Receives $550,000 NSF Career Grant

Marquette University physics professor receives NSF CAREER Award

Marquette engineering professor named Engineer of the Year by STEM Forward

Marquette awarded $3.8 million grant from Department of Defense for new 'In Defense of Water' program

Marquette doctoral candidate earns third place in The Science Coalition video challenge

Engineering professor partners with NSF center for phosphorus sustainability

Marquette University, Kohler Co. establish formal research partnership

Marquette, industry partners announce President's Challenge for COVID-10 response

AHPRC's Dr. Sandra Hunter on WUWM

Marquette's AHPRC featured on Swedish TV segment

‘Help families:’ Next Step Clinic, winner of Marquette’s first-ever ‘President’s Challenge’ opens

Marquette announces new inner-city mental health clinic as winner of Lovell's grant contest

Marquette University research team studies impact of exercise classes for parents of autistic children

Beyond Coworking: Homegrown Innovation Spaces Are Transforming Second Cities

Marquette’s Hub for Athletic Performance Opens

Hero of the Week: Dr. Kyana Young, Marquette University Strategic Innovation Fund

New Report Finds Milwaukee's Water Technology Cluster Spurs Innovation and Replenishes Regional Economy

Working as a team, Mike and Amy Lovell tackle Milwaukee's epidemic of psychological trauma

Marquette, WARF announce 2018 'Force for Positive Change' winners

Momentum building in Marquette president's call to tackle trauma epidemic in Milwaukee

Marquette highlights inventors at the Intellectual Property Showcase

Michael Schläppi interviewed about history making rice harvest

707 Hub leaders interviewed on We Are Marquette podcast

Kelsey Otero interviewed about Social Innovation in Wisconsin

Trying to give farmers a new option, MU prof harvests state's first commercial rice crop

Watermarks receives $146,000 federal grant for public art project

A Milwaukee project creates a live atlas of city’s water system

Community Partners Work to Make Fresh Food Accessible on Milwaukee's Near West Side

Whitefish Bay fitness studio offers new way to 'get into' working out with immersive technology

University News

Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp named ‘Woman of Influence’ by Milwaukee Business Journal

Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice president of research and innovation, has been named one of Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2020 Women of Influence, a list of 30 prominent business and community leaders from southeastern Wisconsin. Hossenlopp was one of three women in the “Innovation” category of the award.

Women of Influence are leaders within Milwaukee’s professional community. Whether they work in public policy, entrepreneurship, community engagement or research – these women have grown businesses, created products and made southeastern Wisconsin a great place to live and work.

To better serve the community

Beyond the buzzwords: Environment, Social and Corporate Governance has real impact

Alumna gives $2 million to bolster Marquette's distinctive Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C.

'It could help others not lose their sisters': When love, science collide

Creating better care for Milwaukee's diverse communities

Bringing home the gold: MU4Gold Scholars program graduates its first cohort of undergraduate researchers

2021 Marquette University/No Studios Filmmaker Fellowship recipients announced

Two projects chosen for President’s Challenge for Racial Justice and Equity Response funding

President’s Challenge for COVID-19 Response winners announced

Marquette Momentum: Three years of the Explorer Challenge — new report highlights innovation at Marquette

Marquette to build new home for Marquette Business and innovation leadership programs

Psychology professor receives Mental Health America award