February 2, 2023
MILWAUKEE – As a part of Marquette College’s annual Mission Week, Feb. 5-11, college students, college, workers and neighborhood members are invited to take part in every week of occasions that features Mass, inspirational talks, distinctive alternatives for reflection and extra.
The theme of this 12 months’s Missions Week is “Acts of Kindness”.
A full schedule of Mission Week occasions and registration is accessible on-line. Registration is free for all occasions, together with:
Sunday, February 5
18:00: Missions Week celebrations might be celebrated with a school-wide Mass at Gesu Church.
Monday, February 6
midday: Award-winning creator and novelist Sarah Dahmen will converse on the Marquette Girls’s Reception. Dahmen, an alumnus of Diederich School of Communication, can be a coppersmith and entrepreneur. Her specialty is classic and modern cookware; she makes stable steel cookware for her firm, Home Copper & Cookware, out of her Wisconsin storage.As a contributing editor to varied commerce journals, she has revealed greater than 100 articles for edible and root + bone, amongst others, and spoke at TEDx Speedy Metropolis. Her historic fiction collection is revealed because the “Flats Junction Collection” (Promontory Press Inc.) and is in improvement for tv, with “Tinsmith 1865” and “Widow 1881” being the primary two books.
7pm: Molly Burhans, founding father of GoodLands, a corporation that mobilizes the Catholic Church to make use of its lands for environmental and social justice functions, would be the keynote speaker for the Ignatian Peace Lecture. Burhans was lead cartographer of the primary ever unified digital world map of the Catholic Church, which debuted on the Vatican in 2016. She was awarded the Younger Champions of the Earth Award by the United Nations in 2019 and is considered one of Encyclopedia Britannica’s 2022 inductees 20 Beneath 40 Youth Shapers of the Future. In 2021, Molly is listed as Nationwide Geographic as an rising explorer.
Wednesday 8 February
midday: Burhans may also be a featured visitor on the Soup with Substance occasion, the place she is going to share her journey to map all the Church’s land around the globe with the purpose of making conversations across the moral and sustainable use of this land.
Thursday, February 9
7:45 am.: Todd Adams, vice chair of the Marquette College Board of Trustees, might be a particular visitor on the “Beginning a Fireplace” males’s breakfast. Adams is Chairman of the Board and Chief Govt Officer of Zurn Elkay Water Options. He has been chairman of the corporate since 2020 and chief govt officer since 2009. He joined the corporate (previously Rexnord Company) in 2004. Adams will share varied experiences and elements of his life and journey, whereas inviting attendees to replicate on their very own journey on a deeper stage, pausing to ponder residing a extra healthful life.
7pm: Marquette alumnus and IndiJ Public CEO Karen Lincoln Michel will ship a keynote handle and be awarded an honorary diploma from the College. IndiJ Public is a not-for-profit information group that operates via digital information websites, weekday newscasts and ICT Information (earlier than rural india immediately). She has served as writer and editor madison journalas former editor every day advertiser in Lafayette, Louisiana and inexperienced bay press launch. Michelle begins working on the newspaper La Crosse Grandstand in Wisconsin, later as a workers author dallas morning paper. As a contract author, she has written extensively on Native American points and is a New York Occasions Syndicate.
Media eager about attending any of those occasions or for extra data ought to contact Kevin Conway, Affiliate Director of College Communications at kevin.m.conway@marquette.edu or (414) 288-4745.
About Marquette College
Marquette College, a Catholic Jesuit college situated close to downtown Milwaukee, affords a full vary of majors at 11 nationally and internationally acknowledged faculties and faculties. Via the formation of hearts and minds, Marquette prepares our 11,100 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral {and professional} college students to steer, excel and turn into brokers of optimistic change. And, we ship outcomes. Ranked within the high 20 p.c of universities nationwide, Marquette College has been acknowledged because the sixth greatest employable college within the nation for its undergraduate instructing, innovation and profession preparation. Our concentrate on pupil success and an immersive, customized studying expertise encourages college students to suppose critically and have interaction with the world round them. When college students graduate with a Marquette diploma, they’re really ready and identified to be totally different.
About Kevin Conway
Kevin is the Affiliate Director of College Communications within the Workplace of College Relations. Contact Kevin at (414) 288-4745 or kevin.m.conway@marquette.edu.
