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Family Weekend is October 5-7

Family Weekend is a special time for Marquette families to rejoin their students and share in the Marquette experience together. We’ve planned a whole weekend of events and activities on the Marquette campus for you and your family to enjoy. Get a sneak peek into the life of your MU student and mingle with fellow Marquette families.

Invitations to Family Weekend were mailed in August. You may register via mail using the reply card in your invitation, or register online.

CheckMarq Guest Access: Staying on top of Marquette finances

With busy schedules, you can't always connect with your student to ask financial aid and tuition bill questions. That's where Guest Access to CheckMarq can help. Guest access is an online way for students to let parents in on the financials they receive from Marquette. Since its launch last March, the CheckMarq guest access site has served parents and guests across the nation — from Camarillo, Calif., to Washington, D.C.

There is one catch: because of federal privacy laws, your student is the one who must set up the guest access user name and password for you to use. Your student checks off what you will see in guest access: the bursar account and/or the financial aid account.

If you have bursar account access, you can view the current tuition balance. You'll also find links to pay tuition via credit card or e-payment. With financial aid access, you can see what aid was offered and whether or not your student has accepted it.

For more information, visit the guest access Web site.

Encourage your student to update personal contact information

All students are strongly encouraged to update their personal contact information via CheckMarq. Students should log on to CheckMarq and scroll to the “Personal Information” section. The university needs an updated address and telephone number (preferably a mobile number) for all students. This information is used by university staff to contact students in emergencies and for vital university business.

Fall Career Fair connects students with potential employers

Is your son or daughter seeking an internship? A full-time position upon graduation this year?

Encourage them to attend the Marquette University Career Fair from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 26–27 in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballroom. The fair offers students and alums an opportunity to talk to more than 160 companies and organizations. Students should dress professionally and bring their resumes.

For a list of participating companies, a guide on “How to Make the Most of a Career Fair” and other information, see the Career Services Center’s Web site at www.marquette.edu/csc.

Career Services Center offers open house and parent’s guide

The Marquette University Career Services Center is hosting an open house from noon to 2 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 20. The event includes tours of the Career Services Center, free food, prizes and an introduction to the range of services available to undergraduate and graduate students. The open house is a great opportunity for students to learn how the Career Services Center can help them achieve their career goals. Please encourage your son or daughter to attend.

With the help of the Career Services Center, students can:

Select a career path based on interests, skills and values
Explore and research career options based on majors
Gain skills through career-related experiences such as internships, co-ops, part-time or summer jobs, volunteer activities and service learning
Develop job search materials and a plan to pursue career goals

For year-by-year steps in the career development process, take a look at a publication we created just for you: Career Development: A parent’s guide to helping sons and daughters.

The Career Services Center is located on the first floor of Holthusen Hall and on the Web at www.marquette.edu/csc. Contact us by phone at (414) 288-7423 and by e-mail at career.services@marquette.edu.

Marquette receives top grades

U.S. News & World Report ranks Marquette University 82nd among the top national universities in its 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges. In other rankings news, Marquette is number 48 in the nation for its tangible contributions to the public interest in Washington Monthly’s annual college guide, and among the 15 percent of U.S. colleges and universities named in The Princeton Review’s Best 366 Colleges.

For more on these and other Marquette rankings and recognitions, click here.

Businessman gives $30 million to Law School as part of $50 million gift

Joseph J. Zilber, Milwaukee philanthropist, real estate developer and chairman of the board of Zilber Ltd., a real estate holding company, recently announced that he was giving a gift $30 million to the Marquette University Law School as part of a $50 million commitment to charities, organizations and institutions in Milwaukee. Zilber is an alumnus of the Marquette University College of Business Administration, Class of 1939, as well as the Marquette University Law School, Class of 1941.

See the complete story in online in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Marquette Neighborhood Health Center serves Milwaukee community

In another example of serving the health needs of Milwaukee residents, Marquette University's College of Nursing has opened the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center, located just two blocks west of campus. The health center serves children, adults and families while providing clinical experience for faculty-supervised graduate and undergraduate nursing students.

For more on this story, click here.

Engineering professor receives significant grants for research

Dan Zitomer, Ph.D., associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Marquette, received a $39,000 grant from the state of Wisconsin for his research in renewable energy and waste management. A $250,000 grant from WE Energies, a Wisconsin-based provider of electric power and natural gas utilities, provides additional support for Zitomer’s research. Read more.

AIM program goes international

The undergraduate Applied Investment Management program in the College of Business Administration is taking on an international component starting in January. Dr. David Krause, director of the AIM Program, and Dr. Jamshid Hosseini, director of International Business Studies, are interviewing students this fall for six spots in the International AIM Program. “We are hearing from investment firms that they need graduates who are familiar with global investments,” says Krause. To learn more about the IAIM Program, click here.

2007-08 Helfaer Theatre season opens during Family Weekend

Marquette’s Department of Performing Arts kicks off its new season at the Helfaer Theatre during Family Weekend with the musical comedy She Loves Me. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, through Saturday, Oct. 6, and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday the 7th. The rest of the Helfaer Theatre season includes a play for children, an Arthur Miller play, some Shakespeare and a very special U.S. première. For ticket prices and more information, go to www.marquette.edu/theatre/

Current & upcoming exhibitions at Haggerty Museum of Art

Several exhibitions are wrapping up at the end of this month at the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, and a new one opens early next month.

Through Sept. 23
India Poems: The Photographs of Milwaukee Artist Waswo X Waswo
Celebrating Eschweiler's Architectural Heritage at Marquette University

Through Sept. 30
Queens and Vagabonds: Paintings by Gina Litherland
Louise Bourgeois, Recent Projects

Coming Oct. 11

Wifredo Lam in North America
6 p.m. Lecture, Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, executive director, Studio Museum of Harlem
7 p.m. Reception

For more on these and upcoming 2008 exhibitions, visit the Haggerty Museum of Art.

Best Buy CEO keynote speaker at upcoming Business Leaders Forum

Best Buy CEO Richard Schulze is set to speak on “Forty Years of Lessons Learned — A Retail Journey” at Marquette’s annual Business Leaders Forum luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Established in 1999, the Business Leaders Forum is a speaker series sponsored by the College of Business Administration. The event is open to the public; to register call (414) 288-7431.

For more information about the Business Leaders Forum at Marquette, click here.

Simmons Lecture welcomes Jesuit scholar from Georgetown

The Dr. Edward D. Simmons Lecture on Society and Human Values presents Rev. John C. Haughey, S.J., a senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center, who will speak on “An Ignatian Approach to Ethics.” The lecture is at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Auditorium on the Marquette campus. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call University Special Events at (414) 288-7431.

Human Rights Initiative hosting first conference

The Human Rights Initiative's first conference, “America, Human Rights and the World,” takes place Sept. 27–29 on the Marquette campus. Opening the conference at 6 p.m. on the 27th is keynote speaker Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University, and founding executive director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Power’s book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

This event is free and open to the public. For a conference schedule, visit the Initiative's Web site. For other questions, e-mail Marquette's Institute for Human Rights Leadership, or call (414) 288-7907.

Get ready for Marquette Athletics

With basketball season right around the corner, tickets are going fast. Both full season and five game mini-packs are now on sale, starting at just $9 a game. Call 414-288-GOMU, or log on to gomarquette.com/tickets for more information.

The MU men’s and women’s soccer seasons are also heating up. Markus Roeders’ nationally ranked women’s squad is gearing up for the Big East Conference season, which begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, against USF at Valley Fields. It’s also $1 day at the Valley—tickets, hot dogs and soda cost just a dollar apiece.

Friday, Sept. 28, is another special night at Valley Fields, as the men’s and women’s teams hold a reunion of their highly successful Soccer Mom Camp in a doubleheader kicking off at 6 p.m.

Following strong showings in its MU Kick-off and MU Challenge Tournaments, Coach Pati Rolf’s women’s volleyball team is poised to make a run through the Big East. The Golden Eagles face Rutgers at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, and return home for Georgetown at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5.

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