Marquette Wire

Meeting with provost covers Gender and Sexuality Resource Center struggles, Assata Shakur mural removal

Sophia Boyd, Student Government & Politics Reporter • September 15, 2015

The meeting, which was scheduled to last an hour but ended after two-and-a-half hours, included emotional dialogue about the recent struggles endured by the GSRC and its employees.

Police block off 16th St. after off-campus shooting of non-student

Natalie Wickman, Executive News Editor • September 13, 2015

The 700 block of 16th St. was taped off Sunday evening after a non-student was shot on the south side and drove onto campus while wounded, Marquette Police Department confirmed.

The Wire Explains: PrintWise Problems

Devi Shastri • September 12, 2015

It is easy to underestimate the value of a working printer until you're furiously typing away at your paper’s conclusion 20 minutes before class starts, desperate to prove your professor wrong about...

Marquette, business, engineering rank on U.S. News and World Reports’ best colleges lists

Kathleen Baert, Assistant News Editor • September 11, 2015

Marquette is ranked No. 86 by U.S. News and World Reports, down 10 spots from last year’s ranking of 76. The College of Engineering is No. 124 for Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, down 15 spots from No. 109 last year. The College of Business Administration is ranked No. 93 for the second year in the list of Best Undergraduate Business Programs. Business specialties have been ranked as follows:

Hillary Clinton talks women’s rights, minimum wage at UW-Milwaukee

Laura Litwin, General Assignment Reporter • September 11, 2015

Around 500 people attended to hear Clinton speak about issues at the forefront of the 2016 presidential election, including the rising student loan debt, wage inequality and income inequality.

Biomedical sciences professor receives $1.7 million grant

, Assistant News Editor • September 11, 2015

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $1.7 million research grant to Jennifer Evans, a professor in the College of Health Sciences, according to a university news brief. The grant will fund research...

Engineering professors greatly aided by grant for water research

Dana Warren, General Assignment Reporter • September 10, 2015

A National Science Foundation program called the Fundamental Research Program which allows researchers to focus on more fundamental mechanisms funds the grant. With the grant, Mayer said she is able to bring in much needed help to the project.

Marquette offers resources to combat rising student stress

Maredithe Meyer, Health Reporter • September 10, 2015

On a 10-point scale, millennials rated their stress levels at 5.5. Level 10 is the highest, and it identifies a “great deal of stress.”

Wing in O’Donnell, other residence hall rooms vacant due to freshman class size

Thomas Salinas, Beat Reporter • September 10, 2015

O’Donnell Hall will have a vacant wing this year after the university received a smaller freshman class than it aimed for.

Students take sixth place in Chinese RoboCup league

Jennifer Walter, Science & Technology Reporter • September 10, 2015

The HEIR Lab’s team of five competed in the TeenSize humanoid league, using their robots to play bot-to-bot soccer with students from around the world. They finished in sixth place out of seven teams in a tie with Germany's NimbRo team.

Evans Scholar Shalonda Jones learned golf, life skills in pursuit of scholarship

Sophia Boyd, Student Government & Politics Reporter • September 10, 2015

Jones, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, is from an all-girls private high school in Lake Forest, Illinois called Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart. It introduced her to the scholarship program, which awards free college tuition and housing to golf caddies.

Mendy restaurant opens in The Marq, Bro-Yo hasn’t extended hours

Jennifer Walter, Science & Technology Reporter • September 10, 2015

The closure led to plans of extended hours for Bro-Yo Campustown, a similar breakfast and brunch restaurant. Its hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday.