Marquette launches Lovell Scholars

 

Marquette Announces the Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship Program

Marquette President Kimo Ah Yun announced that the university will launch the Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship program in fall 2025 in honor of the late president.

“An Ignatian leader to his core, President Lovell embodied a servant’s heart, a growth mindset and what it means to constantly strive for excellence,” President Ah Yun said. “This prestigious scholarship program was created in partnership with the Lovell family, who contributed a gift to make this program possible and offered guidance throughout its development.”

Give Marquette Day is March 4

 

Make Your Donation to Give Marquette Day

This Give Marquette Day, we invite you to join thousands of Marquette alumni in celebrating our shared legacy and supporting the next generation of Marquette students. Together, in just 24 hours, we can raise critical resources for students, faculty and programs across all of our colleges and professional schools. Thanks to several matches and challenges, your gift will have an even greater impact. Here are three ways you can participate:

• Visit mu.edu/gmd to learn more and preview our limited-edition thank-you gift for Give Marquette Day donors.
• Make a gift on March 4 to support an area that means the most to you. If you don’t want to wait, you can give early and be counted!
• Be an advocate and help spread the word about Give Marquette Day using #GiveMUDay.

 

Alumni National Awards

 

Alumni National Awards

Save the Date for April 23-25, 2025. 

We are excited to announce our 2025 All-University Alumni National Award recipients, highlighted by Alumni of the Year Award winners Mary Bruggeman Swift, Dent Hy ’83' and Christopher J. Swift, Bus Ad ’83. Visit marquette.edu/awards to view our complete list of recipients and events. These extraordinary alumni embody the university’s mission pillars of excellence, faith, leadership and service. Congratulations to all! 

 

2025 Commencement Speaker

 

President of James Foley Legacy Foundation Diane Foley to Serve as 2025 Commencement Speaker

Diane Foley, president of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, will serve as Marquette’s 2025 speaker for undergraduate Commencement taking place at Fiserv Forum May 10 or 11. As part of the university’s Commencement ceremonies, Foley will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

Dr. Anne Basting, emerita professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and founder of the award-winning nonprofit TimeSlips.org, will speak at the Graduate School and Graduate School of Management ceremony. Dr. Basting will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree.

 

Leadership

 

Leader of Marquette Women’s Hoops Puts H.E.A.R.T into Action

The Marquette women’s basketball team is exceeding expectations coming off two recent Big East wins against Villanova and Providence.

Although head basketball coach Cara Consuegra is new to the team, she’s not new to the game — or Marquette. She served as an assistant coach for the Marquette women’s basketball team from 2004-11. As a head coach, Coach Consuegra’s core values are broken down into five simple concepts: Heart, Effort, Accountability, Respect and Toughness. “These are the core values that guide our team and program.”

 

EXCELLENCE

 

Marquette Receives $2.4 Million Lilly Endowment Grant to Develop Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded Marquette University a $2.4 million grant to develop an exhibition and educational program that will provide fair, accurate and balanced portrayals of the role religion has played and continues to play in the U.S. and around the world.

 

Fostering Engineering Creativity and Innovation at the Discovery Learning Lab

The Stanley V. Jaskolski Discovery Learning Laboratory provides the tools to bring student ideas to their fullest potential. From bandsaws, drill presses and grinders to advanced 3D printers and lasers, the lab provides a fully equipped, on-site machine shop for the design and production of prototypes, test fixtures and complex objects — it’s where students learn the practical aspects of engineering firsthand.

 

Marquette Alum Ready to Become Newest Top Chef

Marquette alum Kat Turner is one of 15 “cheftestants” competing in Season 22 of Top Chef, set in Canada and premiering March 13. Turner is the granddaughter of alumnus, Haggerty Museum namesake and Texas Instruments co-founder Patrick Haggerty.

 

SERVICE

 

President Ah Yun Shines the Light on Marquette’s Mission of Service to “Engage and Transform People”

Marquette President Kimo Ah Yun’s “underdog” story captivated an audience of about 200 recently at a "Get to Know" program at Marquette Law School's Eckstein Hall. He made it clear to the students that getting an education so you can get a job is important, but that’s far from all Marquette wants its students to set as a goal. Jesuit education means “changing fundamentally who you are as a person and how you interface with the world.”

 

Faith

 

A Look Back on Mission Week 2025: Act with Care

This year's Mission Week events invited the campus community to think about how Marquette’s Catholic, Jesuit mission can be practiced here on campus, in the greater downtown Milwaukee community and wherever our journeys bring us.

Take a photo journey through this year’s Act with Care events.

 

Beyond MU

 

From the Beyond MU Archives: Seasonal Favorites

Celebrate two of the best parts of March – St. Patrick’s Day and basketball – with two seasonally relevant Beyond MU webinar recordings: St. Patrick’s Day: A History of Craic and Slainte Across the Globe (Dr. Timothy G. McMahon, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University) and Neuroscience of the Free Throw: Insights from Motor Control Theory (Dr. William Cullinan, PT '81, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Director of Marquette’s Integrative Neuroscience Research Center). Learn more and view each recording. Sláinte and Go Marquette!

 

Let's get social

 

Marquette Moments

The best way to revisit National Marquette Day is through some of the best moments caught on film. Check out this year's highlights in the National Marquette Day photo gallery.

 

Blue & Gold Social Spotlight

 

Reel Talk

 

How Does President Ah Yun’s Catholic Faith Ground Him and Guide Him?