Welcome to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) is Marquette University's central point of coordination for sponsored projects and the legally authorized representative for grants, contracts and assurances. ORSP represents the sum of Marquette's experience with extramural sponsors and partners over time, through the entire Project Lifecycle. 

  • An award's Project Lifecycle primarily consists of three phases: 
  • Pre Award - Project Idea, Funding, Development, Submission 
  • Award - Setting Up  
  • Post Award - Managing, Closeout 

  • ORSP helps faculty and staff build bridges between Marquette and extramural sponsors and other institutions to advance the university's mission, and it fosters excellence in sponsored projects by promoting best practices, policies and procedures that ensure consistency and efficiency in our transactions with sponsors and partners.

  • ORSP's Internal Submission Deadline is to have a near-final draft of the narrative and the FINAL budget submitted to our office no less than three (3) business days prior to sponsor deadline.
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2024 Forward Thinking Research Symposium   

Each year, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) showcases the exciting research being done at Marquette. In celebrating research across campus, the ORSP Forward Thinking Research Symposium provides opportunities to learn more about work being done in other disciplines and fosters professional skills for students. Unlike traditional conferences, where researchers convey the results of work that has been completed, the Forward Thinking presentations focus on projects that will take place in the next 6–12 months.  

MU Faculty, Staff and Students came together for year's event, on Tuesday Dec. 3rd.  

Thank you to all who participated and/or attended this year! A total of 32 research teams gave five-minute oral presentations of their projects and 11 of those had posters displayed. Overall, more than 70 people were involved from 15 departments representing seven Colleges/Schools. 

 

The following three oral presentations will receive $500 awards for their work: 

The award sponsored by the Office of Research and Innovation is:

Building Wellness Pathways for Black Milwaukeeans: A Development, Feasibility, and Implementation Study​

Students:  Joia Wesley, Jenna Rugzie, Kennedi Luckett

Faculty:  Nakia Gordon, Psychology

Black Milwaukeeans are in dire need of investment in their biopsychosocial wellbeing. In a study examining residential segregation, income, economic mobility, employment, educational attainment, mass incarceration, and health outcomes in 50 metropolitan cities in the US, Milwaukee performed poorly across the board. This study aims to create a wellness program for Black Milwaukeean's using a three-phase study. In the initial phases, we will assess wellness strengths and needs for Black Milwaukeeans. We will test the program during focus groups. Then, we will develop and implement a wellness program.

 

The award sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership is:

Improve diagnostics for Female Genital Schistosomiasis

Student:  Delaina Frederick

Faculty:  Nilanjan Lodh, Medical Laboratory Science

This project discusses what organism species causes this disease, and more so it's prevalence in underserved communities and how the disease's impact brings up the matter of women's rights. Further, the project expands on the needs that our research addresses, the overall goals and specific aims of our work. Moreover, we touch base on the diagnostic element itself, how samples are obtained and the methodology we employ to determine positive and negative presence of the parasite S. haematobium.

 

The award sponsored by the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society is:

Electronic Monitoring in the Juvenile Justice System

Student:  Jack Lynch

Faculty:  Robert Smith, History, Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO)

This presentation explores the existing literature on electronic monitoring and the gaps that the CURTO EM Milwaukee team is well suited to address. Through the use of qualitative data analysis CURTO has the opportunity to center the voices of youth and families directly impacted by electronic monitoring, and area that is seriously lacking in existing literature.

 

Representatives from some of Marquette's Centers and Institutes, listed below, were on-site to share information about the work they're doing. Be sure to check out their websites!

 

If you have any questions, please contact Project Planning and Development in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

 

 

 

Training and Events

Our current semester schedule of events and trainings is posted on our Training and Events webpage. Be sure to check it out and register for those upcoming events you’re interested in.  You can also view previously recorded sessions on that page. 

This semester includes such offerings as:

  • - One Thing Led to Another 
  • - Guidance for Projects Involving International Components
  • - Forward Thinking Research Symposium
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COVID-19 Funding Opportunities