Spring 2007 > The Magazine of Marquette University

College of Engineering’s GasDay project helps utilities turn up the heat. Like most people in New Mexico, Pat O’Connell is not accustomed to freezing temperatures — not even in the dead of winter. But as senior gas supply planner for the state’s largest utility, he has to be ready for whatever the weather brings. More

Enrollment boom
WWII vets help push enrollment to the highest point yet, in 1948. Our final 125th anniversary special feature.

Teeth as evidence
How a dental database developed here may help identify crime suspects.

Justice that heals
Marquette’s first International Restorative Justice Conference explored the dichotomy of revenge and regret.

Katrina on her mind
Hurricane Katrina may have rerouted Stephanie Treffert, but it’s unlikely that anything could derail her.

ALUMNI PROFILES
This player's got history Seventy-six years later Francis Zummach still can’t pinpoint why Marquette’s basketball coach looked at this walk-on player and told him to suit-up.
Digital journalist Lindsay Morris, Comm ’00, is used to pioneering new journalism technology. She edited the CD-ROM version of Marquette’s Hilltop.
There's no substitute for "Sme" It’s not always easy to be a substitute teacher. But don’t tell that to Sister Mary Ellen Paulson, OP.

Big East Coach of the Year

Mitchell owns more wins, has a better winning percentage, and has taken her teams to more post season action than any previous Marquette women’s basketball coach.

Pre-season All-American Candidate Dominic James

• Mission Week's challenge
• Scholarly publication launched
• Two donors, $30 million
• For military protection
• Project runway
• Dublin curtain call
• Thrift shops get help
• DVD offers 125 years of history
• Studying James Bond
• Big East Coach of the year
• What keeps campus humming
• Law School's addition
• Engage the world
• Some Jottings: A God for our time

From President Robert Wild, S.J.
Around the nation the topic of immigration has been a subject of intense debate. Because this is not simply a legislative issue but an ethical decision intimately concerned with human dignity and freedom, the Catholic Church has weighed in. More

Students run to the lake after Marquette wins the NCAA Championship.