March/April 2014 Marquette Matters

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MARQUETTE S TATE OF THE

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UNIV E RS IT Y A D D RES S

By Lynn Sheka

Callahan also addressed budgeting decisions for fiscal year 2015, sharing that this year, the university piloted the use of new metrics to develop the capital budget. The new approach helped leadership reach sound decisions while promoting greater transparency and better understanding across colleges and operating units regarding how funds are allocated and which investments get funded. “We must do this in order to keep a Marquette education affordable for our students and their families,” Callahan said. “This is the most compelling and important purpose for our work.”

Father Wild discussed progress on the goals in the university’s strategic plan, Beyond Boundaries, including that the university’s 2013 research and development activity reached $20.9 million, Marquette’s highest figure ever, and that patent activity continues to grow. The Task Force on Community Engagement continues to work on preparing an application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.

One of the major initiatives of the task force is to build a database that will facilitate tracking and assessment of community engagement activities.

An interdisciplinary team is working to build the structure of that database to be both effective and user-friendly.

Callahan shared news of a comprehensive diversity plan being spearheaded by Dr. William Welburn, associate provost for diversity and inclusion. The plan will be developed collaboratively with faculty, staff and students, with early steps including the implementation of a bias reporting tool for students, a climate study on diversity during the 2014–15 academic year, and additional diversity education and programming through the Division of Student Affairs. “I urge you to lend your minds and hearts to this ­essential universitywide effort,” Callahan said.

To close the address, Father Wild shared that the university is exploring whether to convert the Department of Public Safety to a commissioned police force. “Whatever our decision, the mission of DPS will not change; it will continue to be student-centered,” Father Wild said. He also emphasized the need for input on the decision from the Marquette community and neighborhood stakeholders, including the Milwaukee Police Department.

Before facilitating questions from the audience, Dr. Marilyn Frenn, chair of University

Academic Senate and professor of nursing, thanked Father Wild and Callahan for promoting shared governance and instituting the strong provost model.

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In his first Presidential Address since returning as interim president, Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., was joined by Interim Provost Margaret Faut Callahan for a dialogue on major topics and initiatives taking place at Marquette.

Father Wild kicked off the State of the University Address by announcing that an additional $5 million had been raised for a new on-campus Jesuit Residence. The gift, which came from Ray and Kay Eckstein through their charitable trust, is the second major gift toward the $15 million Jesuit Residence fundraising effort. In May 2007, the Ecksteins donated $51 million toward the construction of a new Law School facility, one of the largest gifts ever to a U.S. law school.

Father Wild continued by sharing additional positive news related to fundraising, noting that since July 2013, donors have contributed $41.5 million to Marquette, well ahead of year-to-date numbers for the past five years, and surpassing University Advancement’s $40.7 million projection for the year. More than $14.5 million of those funds are for student scholarships. “When alumni ask me the most important thing they can do to help Marquette, I say scholarships,” Father Wild said. “That support is going to make a difference in students’ lives in ways we can only imagine.”

Callahan then addressed the ways that innovative academic initiatives are helping to grow revenues and advance the academic reputation of Marquette. “I’ve been extremely pleased that deans have been the driving force behind these efforts,” she said, specifically noting momentum in highdemand areas, including: the School of Dentistry’s addition and expansion of its first-year class size by 20 students; the College of Health Sciences adding targeted faculty in highly rated physical therapy and physician assistant programs; the College of Nursing’s $5 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which will allow it to increase its class size by 40 students; the College of Engineering’s cross-disciplinary Visualization Lab; and the Diederich College of Communication’s innovative O’Brien Fellowship for public service journalism.

Emphasizing the need to “look at enrollment in a comprehensive way,” going beyond a target number of traditional freshman, Callahan gave an update on the work being done by nine separate committees on an enrollment strategy, which will be presented to the Board of Trustees later this year.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell elected first lay president of Marquette Dr. Michael R. Lovell was unanimously elected Marquette University’s 24th president by the Board of Trustees on March 26. President-elect Lovell will be Marquette’s first lay president when he officially begins his role Aug. 1.

A devout Catholic and a man of deep faith, President-elect Lovell, who currently serves as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee, said at the news conference announcing his election, “My faith has always served as a cornerstone in my life and having the ability to openly practice my religious beliefs in my professional career is something that I’ve always wanted to do.”

After the press conference, President-elect Lovell met with students in the AMU Brew Bayou, shaking hands and taking multiple “selfies” with students that were shared throughout social media. Later in the afternoon, he attended a reception at Engineering Hall with the University Leadership Council, University Academic Senate, and representatives from Faculty Council, Staff Assembly, MUSG, Parents Council and the Marquette University Alumni Association National Board. Afterward, the Jesuit community welcomed Presidentelect Lovell and his wife, Amy, to the Jesuit Residence for Mass and dinner, which capped a historic day for Marquette.

Learn more at marquette.edu/president-elect.

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New Visualization Lab provides collaborative space to create immersive environments

By Andy Brodzeller

A group of freshmen grabbed their 3D glasses and took a seat before the lights were turned down and the screen in front of them came to life. For the next hour, these students weren’t captivated by the latest blockbuster at the local movie theatre, but were transported inside a human artery in Engineering Hall’s state-of-theart Visualization Laboratory as an extension of a laboratory exercise. Powered by six highend computers and 10 projectors, the new lab provides immersive experiences for students, researchers and industry collaborators.

The lab is the result of more than five years of planning led by Dr. John LaDisa, associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Visualization Lab. “The process was deliberatively open and collaborative, to ensure the equipment and space meets the needs of faculty across campus,” LaDisa says.

The lab has two distinct spaces, a Content Development Lounge with five high-end computer stations that allow researchers and

students to develop content for the large display area, known as the CAVE™. The lounge was designed as a flexible space that allows it to be used as a general meeting area for collaborators, or for individuals to work independently on different projects. “We really wanted this to be a welcoming and enriching space that people looked forward to coming to,” LaDisa says.

The real showcase of the space is the CAVE™, or versatile large-scale immersive environment.

The projection area is ten feet tall, ten feet deep and more than 18 feet long, and has space for 30 people. According to LaDisa, having a space for that size group is unique for a visualization lab. “We deliberately made this choice so that the lab could be leveraged not only for research, but also instruction and public events,” he says.

While the lab just opened in December 2013, its collaborative nature and flexibility are already being put to use. The Department of Digital Media and Performing Arts put on a two-man show, Zoo Story, in April, with the

CAVE™ providing the scenery and special effects.

Chester Loeffler-Bell, artistic assistant professor of performing arts, is working with the lab on the set design. Moving forward, Loeffler-Bell hopes to use the lab to virtually design sets before physically building them to reduce costs.

Other university contributors include Dr. Martin St. Maurice, assistant professor of biological sciences, who will use the Visualization Lab to study the structure and function of enzymes that are potential targets for the treatment of diabetes, cancer and microbial infection. The College of Nursing is also working with the lab to create a virtual medical surgical unit to test nursing students on specific skills.

In the coming months, LaDisa will schedule tours and presentations of the space so additional faculty can learn how the space may benefit their research or teaching.

Way Klingler Sabbatical Award winner studying patterns of trade and migration in 16th century Central America

By Lynn Sheka

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Dr. Laura Matthew, associate professor of history in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, is the 2014–15 Way Klingler Sabbatical Award recipient. She will spend her yearlong sabbatical working on her next book, Circulations: Death and Opportunity on the Mesoamerican Pacific Coast, 1450–1660, including conducting research in Guatemala and Mexico. Circulations asks how — or whether — indigenous patterns of trade and migration along the Pacific Coast of Central America were transformed as a result of European conquest.

“This work is important because the Pacific Coast is notoriously ignored in Guatemalan history,” Matthew says. “Many of the region’s contemporary inhabitants trace their history to pre-colonial times yet they have not been incorporated into larger national conversations about ethnicity, identity and civil rights.”

Her latest book will build upon her prize-winning monograph, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala, which received the prestigious 2013 Howard F. Cline Award from the Conference on Latin American History, awarded to the best book published in the last two years about the history of the indigenous people of Latin America.

It also received the 2013 Murdo MacLeod Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the best book in Latin American and Caribbean history.

Matthew also plans to continue her work with a linguistic anthropologist from the University of Texas at Austin on a project analyzing the historical evolution of Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec empire, in Central America.

The Sabbatical Review Committee selects the Way Klingler Sabbatical Award winner.

The recipient receives their full salary, plus two additional months of summer pay and $10,000 to fund travel and expenses related to research conducted during the year-long sabbatical.

CAM PU S H A P P E N I N GS New locations for Honors Program; Klingler College of Arts and Sciences’ main office, Advising Center As part of ongoing renovations to Marquette’s historic core — Johnston Hall, Marquette Hall and Sensenbrenner Hall — the main office of the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences is now located on the first floor of newly renovated Sensenbrenner Hall. The Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Advising Center is now located in ground-level suite 005 in Sensenbrenner Hall, and the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Records Department is now located in ground-level suite 004 in Sensenbrenner Hall. The University Honors Program is now located in ground-level suite 002 in Sensenbrenner Hall. Renovations will continue on the upper floors of Sensenbrenner Hall, with the Department of History expected to move to its permanent location in Sensenbrenner in May 2014.

Commencement will be held Sunday, May 18 Marquette’s Commencement ceremony will be held Sunday, May, 18, at 9:30 a.m. at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Rev. James Martin, S.J., will be the Commencement speaker and will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree. Father Martin’s most recent book, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, explores the human emotions and divine activities of the life of Jesus. His books Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor and Laughter are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life; The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; and Together on Retreat, are New York Times best sellers. Father Martin is a frequent commentator in national and international media, and is known as The Colbert Report’s official chaplain.

By Christopher Stolarski

Museum as classroom

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Teaching Enhancement Award winners will use Haggerty in pilot project

“Student-centered, interdisciplinary and adaptable…” That’s how the Committee on Teaching described the proposed project “Clear Picture: Looking at Communities from an Art Museum,” winner of this year’s Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award. The project leaders, Dr. Eugenia Afinoguenova, associate professor of Spanish in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences; and Dr. Pamela Hill Nettleton, assistant professor of journalism and media studies in the Diederich College of Communication, will receive $20,000 to fund the project.

The idea was presented to the professors by Haggerty Museum of Art leaders, who had been seeking ways in which they could become a creative alternative to a classroom. In conjunction with the museum’s 2014–15 Blue Room Redux exhibition, Afinoguenova and Nettleton will teach courses dedicated to language, literature, and writing about the arts that use the Haggerty and its exhibits as a learning laboratory. Their students will help develop the exhibition as curators, writers and guides.

“Recent research on student museum-going has found a strong correlation between visiting art collections and developing critical thinking skills, building up social tolerance and showing greater historical empathy,” Afinoguenova says. “We plan to test some of these hypotheses and write an article together about it.”

Nettleton, who has written about dance, classical music, opera and dining for the past 20 years, added: “It’s so important for a critic to see art from many perspectives and through fresh eyes, and I’m excited for my students to get to experience the Haggerty alongside students studying another major and students who are bilingual.”

Both professors are effusive in their praise for the Haggerty’s leadership and willingness to open itself up and allow professors and students to co-create an exhibition.

For any museum, this is unprecedented,” Afinoguenova says. “Yet, under Director Wally Mason’s leadership, the Haggerty has demonstrated a unique vision: turn the museum into a learning laboratory.”

According to the professors, the project is designed as a pilot — not just for Spanish and journalism, but also for other departments to use the Haggerty in cross-disciplinary ways.

Dr. Eugenia Afinoguenova, (left) associate professor of Spanish in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences; and Dr. Pamela Hill Nettleton, assistant professor of journalism and media studies in the Diederich College of Communication, at the Haggerty Museum of Art.

On the Side

Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom – sailor

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By Laura Moderhock

During harsh Milwaukee winters, Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom, an avid sailor, dreams of warmer days on Lake Michigan. van Den Kieboom, assistant professor of educational policy and leadership, has been sailing with her husband for more than 31 years.

“Spending countless hours on the boat with my husband and two sons has provided our family with the opportunity to engage in adventures together,” she says. van den Kieboom and her husband, along with Marquette students who help crew their ship Nighthawk, compete during the summer in various distance races, which last from 24 to 74 hours.

She has found that sailing offers her the chance to disconnect from the fast pace of an electronic society and connect with other people and the water. van Den Kieboom has also found valuable synergies between her love for sailing and her work at Marquette.

“As a researcher, sailing reminds me to stay the course and be patient in gathering and analyzing data,” she says. “Sometimes the conditions favor a speedy process, and at other times the process is slow and tedious. I’ve learned to enjoy both.”

“On the Side” offers a glimpse of faculty and staff interests outside of Marquette. Email your story suggestions to m ­ arquettematters@marquette.edu.

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Way Klingler Fellowship recipients

Dr. Ryan Hanley, Department of Political Science, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Sandra Hunter, Department of Exercise Science, College of Health Sciences

“Pure love” and political philosophy: Exercise as medicine: reversing the the teachings of François Fénelon effects of Type 2 diabetes

By Jesse Lee

By Jesse Lee

The inauguration of Pope Francis and his subsequent teachings have focused on inclusion and introspection, asking the question, what is the role of the Catholic church in the world today? What obligations do we have to citizens of an increasingly complex political and economic climate?

Dr. Ryan Hanley, associate professor of political science and recipient of this year’s Way Klingler Fellowship in the humanities, believes that some of the answers to these questions lie in the teachings of François Fénelon, a French Roman Catholic philosopher and writer. Next year marks the 300th anniversary of his death.

“Fénelon is an important, but largely forgotten, Catholic thinker,” Hanley says. “In the 18th century, his book Telemachus was the secondmost read book after the Bible itself. His contributions to both spirituality and political philosophy still hold great value today.”

Hanley will use his Fellowship award — $20,000 annually for three years — to research and publish the first English-language book on Fénelon’s political philosophy.

According to Hanley, Fénelon’s philosophy was rooted in the concept of “pure love” — love untainted by self-love — that aligns with the Jesuit principle of cura personalis.

“One of his main concerns was the politics of inequality, something very much on people’s minds today,” Hanley says. “Inequality in income; global inequality. To hear this Catholic voice describe the flourishing state in which inequality is reduced is likely to resonate with audiences today.”

Hanley is excited to bring this historically important and contemporarily relevant project to life, an opportunity he said he might not have had without the Way Klingler Fellowship.

“You don’t often find opportunities to address something that history missed,” he says. “It’s a perfect blend of my interests in the Enlightenment, political philosophy and my 10 years spent in the mission of Marquette.

It all comes together nicely.”

Dr. Sandra Hunter, associate professor of exercise science in the College of Health Sciences, is world-renowned for her research on age and sex differences in muscle fatigue. In addition to fielding requests for keynote addresses at international conferences, her work has been commissioned by NASA. When Hunter sets her sights on a new research opportunity, she does so with a nearly unparalleled tenacity and sense of purpose — qualities that helped make her the recipient of the 2014-15 Way Klingler Fellowship in science, an award that will provide $50,000 annually for three years.

“It’s a huge honor,” Hunter says. “Without this award, this new area of research would not happen.”

Her focus is on Type 2 diabetes, a disease that continues to gain attention as global obesity rates rise.

“Type 2 diabetes is a pandemic — the increase in instances of this disease is absurd,” she says. “That said, there is still not much understanding of the neuromuscular implications that come with it, the fatigue and impairments.”

Type 2 diabetes — the most common form of the disease — affects the body’s ability to properly regulate insulin. Typically thought of as an adult-onset disease, Type 2 diabetes has become an issue in children with rising incidences of childhood obesity.

Hunter’s research will focus on blood flow and fatigue in the central nervous system in non-insulin dependent patients with diabetes. Working with a clinical population will allow her to test her prediction of a blunted blood flow response and greater fatigue in the central nervous system, which she predicts will account for greater muscle fatigue in people with Type 2 diabetes.

Ultimately she hopes to determine how a strength training program can offset the neuromuscular fatigue that Type 2 diabetes patients suffer.

“Exercise can offset some of the effects of this disease,” Hunter says.

“It’s the cornerstone of treatment, but people have to want to do it.

This study will help understand the mechanisms involved.”

M A R Q U ET T E H AP P E NINGS Save the date for Excellence in University Service Awards Luncheon on June 3 Staff contributions to the university will be recognized at the Excellence in University Service Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, June 3. The luncheon will celebrate this year’s winners of the Excellence in University Service Awards, which recognize staff members who demonstrate the Ignatian ideal of care for others and who have made extraordinary contributions to the university.

Faculty teaching and research excellence will be honored at Père Marquette Dinner on May 1 All full-time faculty members are invited to the 56th annual Père Marquette Dinner, which will be held Thursday, May 1, in the AMU, with a reception at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Faculty members should RSVP to the email invitation they were sent. The night will honor this year’s Teaching Excellence Award winners, as well as the winners of the Lawrence G. Haggerty Award

for Research Excellence, the Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship Awards, the Way Klingler Sabbatical Award, the Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards and the Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award. The following groups also received an invitation to the event: deans; University Leadership Council members; Jesuits; professors emeriti; retired Teaching Excellence Award winners; and local Board of Trustees members; and select adjunct faculty and staff working closely with award recipients.

Axthelm Memorial Lecture to feature Sports Illustrated writer Seth Davis, a writer for Sports Illustrated, will deliver the Diederich College of Communication’s Axthelm Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. Davis, author of, Wooden: A Coach’s Life, will present, “Relationships Between Coaches and Players: Will There Ever Be Another John Wooden?” with a book signing to follow.