Ring out ahoya with fellow fans in your area at a local game-watching party when the Marquette men's basketball team takes on Xavier on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. CST.
In Milwaukee, join the Marquette community for the Pep Rally and Fireworks on campus on Feb. 17.
Consider commemorating the 100th anniversary of men's basketball at Marquette with a gift to the Blue & Gold Fund.
After highlighting a year’s worth of progress at Marquette and outlining key university initiatives for 2017 and beyond, Marquette President Michael R. Lovell saved a surprise for the end of this year’s Presidential Address. Read more.
Tragedy put Byron Riesch, Bus Ad '01, in the position of lending his name to a foundation to support spinal cord research; it also brought him and Dr. Murray Blackmore together. Read the full story.
Tim Mahone, Comm ’92, was named president of the UW-Parkside Foundation Board of Directors, on which he has served since 2006. He resides in Kenosha, Wis.
Tyler Bridges, Eng '10, Grad '14, and Emily (Zei) Bridges, Nurs '10, wed in Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colo., on Sept. 16, 2016. The couple lives in Seattle, where Tyler works as a program manager for Amazon and Emily works as an oncology nurse for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Megan (Everson) Tzanoukakis, Bus Ad '09, Grad '10, and Gregory Tzanoukakis, Bus Ad '08, welcomed son Colin Robert on Sept. 6, 2016. The family lives in Sussex, Wis.
Publication of the achievements of our alumni does not constitute endorsement by Marquette University.
ENHANCE YOUR CAREERCareer Services Center ready to serve Looking for a complete career change, interested in hiring Marquette talent or you could use some insight regarding your professional development? Marquette’s Career Services Center can help. Learn more. By Kristin Adler, Assistant Director, Employer and Campus Relations, Marquette University Career Services Center Get more insights from Marquette alumni through the Career Experts Network.
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Marquette students tutor local schoolchildren at 'Mathnasium'
By Geoff Bruce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Mathnasium opened in November with the goal of helping students of all ages in the Brookfield, Wis., area to build confidence and fill in learning gaps while getting extra assistance with their math classes and homework. "Our mission is to teach children math in a way that makes sense to them," Mathnasium director Ann Yurkowitz said. Read the full story.
Marquette Global Brigades group visits rural Nicaragua
By Christine Flores, CBS 58 News
A total of 86 people from Marquette traveled to rural parts of Nicaragua including Lindsey Wojciechowski, a local nurse practitioner and wife of Marquette men’s basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski, and Amy Lovell, a former pharmacist who is the wife of Marquette President Michael R. Lovell. The group worked on a
number of projects from sanitation to health care. Read the full story.
Men's lacrosse grows in leaps and bounds
Marquette University launched a Division I men’s lacrosse program in 2010 with a handful of under-recruited players and rose to national prominence in just five years under the guidance of first-time head coach Joe Amplo, who created a unique culture of love at the upstart program. Watch a student-produced video about the rise of Marquette Lacrosse and read an interview with the producers.
Marquette Engineer magazine: House of Rain
Like many of her senior engineering classmates last fall, Anne Grzywa, Eng ’16, longed to find a senior-year capstone design project that would bring out her best as a budding engineer and make a difference in the community.
In the BaseTern, she found such a project, and then some.
Grzywa and three other recent graduates spent much of their senior year designing, planning and troubleshooting BaseTern — a stormwater-storage solution employing an abandoned home basement as a cistern. Read the full story.
Let us know if you’ll be at the Boston Marathon on April 17
Do you plan to attend or participate in the Boston Marathon this year? Dr. Michael R. Lovell, Marquette University president, will run on April 17. Sign up to learn more about Marquette and the Boston Marathon.
Guess the Year
Members of the Avalanche Ski Club pose for their annual yearbook photo.
a. 1962
b. 1967
c. 1970
d. 1973
National Marquette Day has become a terrific tradition at Marquette. It dates back to the days when we couldn’t watch a lot of Marquette men’s basketball on television. Things have sure changed with the advent of cable television and internet viewing of sports. Still, there is something special about an occasion when we all set our focus on the same thing. 
