Marquette’s University Honors Program is designed for intellectually curious, academically engaged students who want to learn in a close-knit community of their peers at the heart of a vibrant research university. Its broadly based, interdisciplinary curriculum addresses our most pressing contemporary challenges with cutting-edge knowledge and research and the wisdom of centuries of Jesuit values and pedagogy. Our Honors values and learning outcomes emphasize curiosity and open-mindedness, active listening and dialogue, breadth of learning and experience, and a commitment to equity, justice, and human rights.
The UHP offers two ways to participate in Honors: Core Honors, in which students follow an Honors version of the Marquette Core Curriculum throughout their undergraduate career; and Disciplinary Honors, in which students do Honors work in their majors. Students may participate in either program or both. Core Honors is open to incoming first-year students, who apply after being accepted to Marquette; students apply to Disciplinary Honors programs in their sophomore year. For more information on both programs, view our values and learning outcomes, browse our website, or contact us!
Congratulations to the 2025 Honors Undergraduate Summer Research Award Winners
The University Honors Program offers undergraduate summer fellowships to Honors students, in the amount of $3500 each, on a competitive basis for research or creative projects to be carried out June-August 2025. Award winners will present their research at the Honors Program Research Fair in Fall 2025. Here's a full listing of this year's recipients including their research titles and project mentors.
Honors Student Highlights
Ryan Smith was featured in Marquette Today for receiving the Fulbright Summer fellowship to study film and cinema at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom for a three-week film program. Read the full article here.
Victoria Zeisig, a Psychology and Criminology and Law Studies double major, has been named the recipient of the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences 2025 Outstanding Senior Award. A review committee selected Victoria based on her exceptional achievements in academics and service as well as the ways in which her Arts & Sciences education has shaped the person she is today. 
Pictured avove, Victoria Zeisig
Natalia Beans received the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship to aid in furthering her STEM endeavors. Read the full story here.
Madelyn Filer was featured in Marquette Today for winning the 2025 Student Employee of the Year award for her position as an undergraduate research assistant with the Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center Outreach Lab. Read the full story here.
Sophia Halick was accepted to the Wistar Institute on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus this summer. She’ll work in the Wistar labs doing genetics research with a focus on cancer research.
Sidor Clare, a first-year Biological Sciences major, will partipate in a summer program in data analytics at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University.
Skills Studio launching in Fall 2025
Looking for the perfect place to explore creative hobbies like crocheting, baking, painting, yoga, photography, pottery, and more—all for free? Supplies are provided, and no experience is needed. Each month, Skills Studio hosts a themed session open to everyone. Want to help lead the way? Board members meet twice a month toplan upcoming events, and new members are always welcome. For more information: Tashala Hubanks.
Congratulations to Honors Study Abroad Award Winners
The following students have been awarded $1000 each to support their study abroad experiences:
Eddie Kamm : Universidad Pontificia Comillas, fall; Carly Sampson, John Cabot University, summer; Ben Sherrill, University of Auckland, fall; Kate Sullivan, summer internship, Vienna.
Creative Writing Workshops
Do you have a passion for writing, or do you want to refine your skills? Honors will continuing with another semester of the Creative Writing Workshop Series in fall 2025. More details soon.
What Does an Honors LLC Look Like?
Check out this video to see a day in the life of an Honors LLC! Riley Condon is an Honors student with a minor in Digital Media. She created this video to give prospective students a snapshot into the day in the life of an Honors student at Marquette.
Honors Graduation Reception
Graduating seniors celebrated their honors experience at a reception on Friday, May 9, 2025, 11am-12pm in the AMU Ballrooms, 3rd Floor. 
Grading System Perceptions
Honors Director Amelia Zurcher and Honors junior Loriann Chávez are exploring students’ and professors’ perceptions and experiences with the traditional grading systems of both high school and Marquette. In Fall 2025 semester, students and faculty will be invited to dialogue about their findings and their personal perspectives.
PSYC 2050H Advanced Research Methods
In Fall 2025 Honors is offering PSYC 2050H, a small serminar-style class focusing on more in-depth research methods. It’s also great preparation for students interested in Disciplinary Honors in Psychology. For more information, please email.
Macaron Workshop
Honors student Riley Condon made traditional French macarons in the AMU Innovation Kitchen. It was an interactive, cultural experience with French flavors coming together for a culinary adventure. Riley is currently pursuing a triple major in Business, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and French with a minor in Digital Media. In summer 2024, she was awarded an Honors Summer Research Fellowship to experience and immerse herself in French culture. In her research proposal Riley said, “Everyone who has interacted with me knows one of two things about me. I am a French major, and I love to bake French macarons.”
Exotic Frog Excursion with
Rainforest Rick
In spring 2025 Honors hosted two excursions to Rainforest Rick Education Inc. in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. The sessions were experiential learning on sustainability, non-profits, science, education, and tropical frogs with Prof. Rick Boyd, Physics. Boyd has been cultivating frogs and other natural phenomena and shared his findings through this off-campus experience.
Goal Cards Available
Stop by the Honors Suite and fill out a Goal Card, then pin it to the goal wall. This is an opportunity to create goals for the semester and share them with other students. Fast forward to the end of the semester: return to the goal board to update your progress.
Honors Ball
The annual Honors Ball with an Enchanted Forest theme was held recently in the AMU Ballrooms. The event is open to Honors student and their guests and is an annual favorite.
New Honors Leadership Council
In October, the University Honors Program welcomed nine alumni to campus with the goal of furthering the mission of the program and to support positive alumni relations. Check out the new council here.
University Honors Program
Marquette University
Sensenbrenner Hall 002
P.O. Box 1881
1103 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 288-7516
Amelia Zurcher, PhD
Director
(414) 288-3475
Lindsay Daigle, PhD
Assistant Director
Karalee Surface, PhD
Advisor
414-288-5510
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