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CAMPUS HAPPENINGS
APRIL 2013
Raynor Memorial Libraries to host Dorothy Day eventsOn Wednesday, April 24, Raynor Memorial Libraries will host an exhibit to commemorate the 80th anniversary of The Catholic Worker newspaper. Also April 24, Patrick Jordan, former managing editor of Commonweal magazine and Dorothy Day’s friend, will speak about her from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Prucha Archives Reading Room. On Friday, April 26, a documentary about Day’s life, Dorothy Day: Don’t Call Me a Saint, will be played in the Libraries’ Beaumier Suite A at 2:30 p.m. Please respond to [email protected] by April 22.
ESPN analyst to speak at Axthelm Lecture The Diederich College of Communication’s annual Axthelm Lecture will be held Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. It will feature ESPN’s Adam Schefter, known for his appearances on NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown and SportsCenter.
Casper Lecture to focus on Haitian Revolution The annual Casper Lecture will take place Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Beaumier Suites. Dr. Rebecca Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of law at the University of Michigan, will present, “She Had Always Enjoyed Her Freedom: Re-enslavement and the Law in the Era of the Haitian Revolution.” The Casper Lecture is part of Marquette’s year-long Freedom Project.
Engineering professor recognized by BlackMoney.com Dr. Andrew Williams, professor and John P. Raynor Distinguished Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized as one of the “50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology” by BlackMoney.com. Williams has worked extensively in education, recruiting, retaining, and motivating underrep-resented and female students to pursue degrees in computing and engineering.
MARQUETTEDr. Fabien Josse honored with Haggerty research awardWork with sensors could help detect contamination and bioterrorism By Andy Brodzeller
Contaminated drinking wells. Deep sea oil
spills. Homeland security threats. These are a
few examples of how Dr. Fabien Josse, professor
of electrical and computer engineering and the
2013 recipient of the Lawrence G. Haggerty
Faculty Award for Research Excellence, is using
his skills to contribute to finding answers to
some of the world’s most pressing problems.
With support from Marquette’s Microsensor
Research Lab team, Josse is investigating and
developing novel sensors and sensor systems
that can be used in liquid applications. Josse and
his team have developed microacoustic wave-
based sensors and microcantilevers to detect fuel
and oil contamination, as well as contaminates
such as organophosphate pesticides, which are
used in agricultural production and can leak
into groundwater, causing harm when ingested
or absorbed through the skin.
In addition to designing new sensors to detect
these harmful chemicals in real time, he and his
colleagues are working to develop models that
predict and optimize sensor responses. Current
monitoring and testing techniques for liquids
are time-consuming, expensive and often require
field collection, transportation to a lab and then
analysis. Josse says the goal of his research is
“to build sensors to accelerate remediation by
rapidly identifying and quantifying harmful
contaminants and pollutants.”
During his 30 years on campus, Josse has
secured more than $5.6 million in funding and
is widely recognized for his contributions to
the field of liquid-based sensors. Less than a
year after completing his doctorate and begin-
ning his career at Marquette, Josse applied for
his first National Science Foundation grant.
With feedback and guidance from his mentor
and doctoral adviser at the University of Maine,
Dr. John Vetelino, Josse was awarded the pres-
tigious Research Initiation Grant, now known
as a Career Grant. He was the first to receive
such a grant in the College of Engineering and
has since been awarded six additional grants
from the NSF.
“The example and support provided by
my mentor are qualities I’ve tried to emulate
throughout my career,” says Josse, who has
helped 17 Ph.D. students reach graduation,
and continues to review and provide feedback
on their current grant proposals. He is also
a firm believer in the teacher-scholar model,
typically taking on four courses each academic
year while still managing to produce more than
165 publications during his Marquette tenure.
He has presented his research to cutting-edge
corporations and government entities, including
Chevron, Rockwell Automation, the Army and
Naval Research Labs, the NATO Advanced Study
Institute on Smart Sensors and the National
Institutes of Health.
Josse is respected for his ability to collaborate
not only on campus, but throughout the
country and world. “Fabien is actively contrib-
uting to solving important global issues, such
as monitoring the health of drinking water,”
says Dr. Robert H. Bishop, Opus Dean of the
College of Engineering. “He has built impressive
international collaborations while also reaching
across Marquette’s campus to further not only
his research, but the research of others as well.”
Dr. Fabien Josse, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a world-class authority in the area of liquid-based sensors, a mentor to junior faculty within the College of Engineering and a dedicated teacher. During his 30 years at Marquette, he has developed seven new courses and received more than $5.6 million in grant funding.
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Way Klingler Young Scholar recipients By Lynn Sheka
Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards support promising young scholars in critical stages of their careers. The awards of up to $32,000 are intended to fund $2,000 in operating costs and to cover up to 50 percent of salary to afford the recipient a one-semester sabbatical.
Dr. James Hoelzle, assistant professor of psychology, studies how neuropsychological and personality instruments operate, primarily focusing on mild traumatic brain injuries and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder since they are the most frequent diagnostic conditions evaluated by neuropsychologists. His current research covers a broad scope: from how neuropsychological testing data correlates with anatomical brain connectivity in veterans to better assessment tools for diagnosing adult ADHD to identifying ways individuals inaccurately self-report symptoms in clinical settings.
“It’s worthwhile to consider the validity of tests, the manner in which data can be integrated with clinical theories and the degree to which the assessment process improves long-term patient outcomes,” Hoelzle says.
He hopes his research will increase the validity of assessment instruments and ultimately improve clinical outcomes for patients.
During his sabbatical, Dr. Chung Hoon Lee, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, hopes to develop a device that will allow suspension of a single molecule — or nanostructure — for study, and to develop new methods for the detection, identification and manipulation of single molecules based on a wide range of optical, electrical, mechanical and chemical interactions.
“To date, investigations of the properties of single molecules have been limited to methods that utilize only one of several possibly physical phenomena,” says Lee. “This research has the potential for a deeper under-standing of single molecule behavior.”
An expert in nanotechnology, Lee is leading the charge to develop a new nanotechnology lab in Engineering Hall, which will enhance the College of Engineering’s research and expertise in the area of smart sensor systems.
Dr. Krassimira Hristova, assistant professor of biological sciences, applies emerging trends in molecular and environmental microbiology to help under-stand and prevent the spread of contaminants. Her recent work focuses on methyl tertiary butyl, a gasoline additive that is one of the leading ground-water contaminants in the country.
“By better understanding the enzyme pathways and genetic regulation of the contaminant biodegradation, we can help develop more efficient bio remediation technologies for the cleanup of gasoline spills,” Hristova says.
She is currently researching the toxic effects of human exposure to metal nano -oxides, with the goal of engineering less toxic nanomaterials that reduce contamination of human cells, in addition to analyzing the spread of anti biotic resistance in the environment by anthropogenic — deriving from human —
activities. Both studies have enormous potential to improve the health and safety of people around the world.
Dr. Sameena Mulla, assistant professor of social and cultural sciences, will soon begin collecting data as one of two investigators on a National Science Foundation-funded study of sexual assault trials, which will involve ethnographic research of forensic evidence used at sexual assault trials in the Milwaukee County Court System.
“Victims of sexual assault are additionally burdened by the traumatic demands of making a police report and participating in the investigative and prosecutorial processes, often referred to as secondary victimization, which is what my research focuses on,” Mulla says.
During her sabbatical, Mulla plans to attend court trials every week for a nine-month period to analyze more than 30 sexual assault cases. Her research will mark a first for the field: there have not been any field-based studies of the process of sexual assault trials that analyze more than two entire cases.
Photos by Dan Johnson
By Tim Cigelske
For his first run after being diagnosed with cancer, Dr. Joe Daniels made it to the end of his neighbor’s driveway. It exhausted him.
“I felt terrible,” he says. Daniels, professor of economics in the College of
Business Administration, was 46 when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma in 2006. Today he is cancer free and determined to stay healthy by running.
“I want to stay in good shape, because if something like this happens again I’m healthy enough to fight it,” he explains.
Daniels’ condition was already advanced when he was diagnosed, so his doctor began aggressive treat-ment. Chemo shrunk him to skin and bones. It burned the skin off his hands so he had to wear protective gloves. He had no hair, not even eyelashes.
But Daniels, who has been decorated with teaching awards, continued to work through his treatment and kept fighting. Five years to the day he was diagnosed, Daniels was the keynote speaker and a runner at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s gathering of more than 1,000 participants at the Green Bay Half Marathon and Marathon.
“There’s that intimidation factor when you’re trying to get back in shape,” he says. “But if I can start over after cancer, anyone can get in shape.”
Marquette Matters is published monthly during the academic year, except for a combined issue in December/January, for Marquette University’s faculty and staff. Submit information to: Marquette Matters – Zilber Hall, 235; Phone: 8-7448; Fax: 8-7197Email: [email protected]
Editor: Lynn Sheka
Graphic design:Nick Schroeder
Copyright © 2013Marquette University
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Alumnus of the Year lives the Marquette mission By Nicole Sweeney Etter
“Take Five” is a brief list about an interesting aspect of Marquette life. Email your list suggestions to [email protected].
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Anyone who knows him will
tell you that Don Layden, Arts ’79,
Law ’82, lives the Marquette
mission. Whether it’s the pursuit
of excellence in his professional
life — he’s a partner at Quarles &
Brady and an operating partner
with Baird Venture Partners — or
how he and his wife, Mary Jo, Arts
’80, deepened their spirituality as
members of the Ignatian Associates
community or his leadership on
a diverse group of nonprofit boards, Layden
builds relationships and makes connections
that encourage the best in people.
In honor of his distinguished professional
achievement and leadership, service to Marquette
and the community, and loyalty to the ideals
of the university, he was named the 2013
Alumnus of the Year, the Marquette University
Alumni Association’s premier alumni honor.
He and 51 other outstanding alumni and
friends of the university will be honored during
Alumni National Awards weekend, April 25–27,
on campus.
After majoring in economics and political
science at Marquette, Layden went on to
Marquette University Law School, where he
received his juris doctor with honors and
served as an editor of the Law Review.
He then began his career at Quarles & Brady,
where he concentrated his practice in corporate
law and mergers and acquisitions and remains
a partner. He also has 20 years of operating
experience in managing technology-
enabled service businesses and
held senior management positions
at Fiserv, Marshall & llsley Corp.,
and Metavante.
“Most of what I do relates to my
role as a business person involved
in providing leadership to growing
businesses and setting strategy for
growth,” he says.
At Metavante, Layden was
president of the international group
and senior executive vice president of corporate
development and strategy, general counsel and
secretary. He was instrumental in structuring
the spin-off of Metavante from M&I in 2007.
Layden entered the private equity world in
October 2010 after successfully negotiating the
merger of Metavante Technologies into Fidelity
National Information Services. He served as an
adviser to Warburg Pincus, LLC, for two years
and then joined Baird’s private equity group.
Service is also a key part of Layden’s life.
He serves on the boards of the United Way
of Greater Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Area
Workforce Investment Board, the Milwaukee
Art Museum, Summerfest and Schools That
Can Milwaukee, among others, and has been
recognized for his leadership with several
awards, including the Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Vatican II Award for Service in Administration.
For more information about all 2013
Alumni National Award recipients, go to
marquette.edu/awards.
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The top five videos produced by Marquette University during the 2012–13 academic year receiving the most views:
1. Find your way home – 8,604
2. Freshmen move-in day – 6,724
3. Moving toward a vision for Marquette – 3,168
4. Amazing Grace – 1,995
5. National Marquette Day – 1,734
Visit youtube.com/user/MarquetteU to see all of Marquette’s videos.
New Intellectual Property Policy affects all employees By Lynn Sheka
A revised Marquette University Intellectual
Property Policy and corresponding prospective
assignment of designated intellectual property
rights has been reviewed and approved by
University Academic Senate, the Intellectual
Property Review Board, the Committee on
Research and the Office of the Provost.
While much of the policy remains the same,
beginning this month all current employees
and new hires will be asked to proactively
assign designated intellectual property rights
to Marquette University. Employees should
have received an email to their eMarq account
with a link to the updated policy and an online
Intellectual Property Policy Acknowledgement
form. The form will require individuals to log in
using their eMarq credentials, and then acknowl-
edge their agreement to assign their designated
intellectual property rights to the university by
typing their initials in a box.
“Requiring employees to assign designated
intellectual property rights to the university
at the time of hire rather than at the time
of invention disclosure meets current best
practices for university technology transfer
and intellectual property development,” says Dr.
Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice provost for research
and dean of the Graduate School. “This proactive
assignment of specific intellectual property rights
conforms with best practices and is used by
Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, the University of California system,
the University of Chicago, the University of
Dayton and many other research institutions.”
Email [email protected]
or visit marquette.edu/orsp/IntellectualProperty.
shtml with questions about the new policy.
Daniels (left) with former student Marc von der Ruhr at the 2012 Green Bay Half Marathon.
MARQUETTE HAPPENINGS
MARQUETTE MATTERS
Former Nineteenth-Century Literature editor to present Schwartz Lecture April 10Dr. Thomas Wortham, emeritus professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles and former editor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, will present “William Dean Howells’ Spiritual Quest(ioning) in a ‘World Come of Age’” at the Schwartz Lecture, Wednesday, April 10, at 4 p.m. in the AMU, Lunda Room. The lecture is sponsored by Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, a scholarly journal published at Marquette.
Marquette named to President’s Community Service Honor RollMarquette was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. Marquette undergraduate students perform approximately 455,000 hours of service to the community during each school year, with nearly 80 percent of undergraduate students participating in service activities.
Sensory overload: technology, cognitive workload and fatigueBy Alexa Porter
Most people assume technology helps make the workforce more
efficient. But are they overlooking the negative effects such advances
can have on the people operating that technology? Dr. Stephen Guastello,
professor of psychology, has been awarded the Way Klingler Fellowship
in the humanities — $20,000 annually for three years — for his research
addressing cognitive workload and fatigue in the context of group
coordination and leadership.
His current project aims to determine the demands on human operators
as the world becomes increasingly dependent on technology to perform
work functions. New technological systems are successful in automating
many types of work activities, but they generally produce greater demands
on human operators in the form of cognitive workload and fatigue.
Guastello uses nonlinear mathematical models to help predict outcomes.
He has been successful at separating the effects of workload, fatigue or
repeated tasks using two models for sudden changes in performance on
different tasks.
“I’m excited because I’ve been able to unravel some problems in
cognitive workload and fatigue that have perplexed psychologists for
years,” says Guastello. “Next, I want to focus on separating the effects of
workload versus fatigue in work teams and how the upper boundaries
of humans’ cognitive capacity to function while fatigued and overloaded
varies from person to person.”
In Guastello’s 30 years on campus, he has authored more than 100
journal articles, 42 book chapters and four books, plus another two books
he co-edited, mainly on chaos; complexity and catastrophe theory; work
motivation and performance; group and organizational behavior; and
employee turnover.
Way Klingler Fellowship recipients
Cura personalis and the brainBy Jesse Lee
For Dr. David Baker, professor and associate chair of the Department of
Biomedical Sciences in the College of Health Sciences, the Jesuit principle
of cura personalis begins in the brain. Not just in a cerebral, thought-
provoking sense, but in a literal sense, with the study of neurotransmitters
and their roles in diseases like schizophrenia and addiction.
“We’re developing cutting-edge genetic tools that will allow us to
rigorously evaluate a novel glutamate release mechanism in the brain,”
Baker says. “Put simply, this is an understudied mechanism that may
well be a key in understanding and developing treatments for multiple
neural disorders.”
He believes the Way Klingler Fellowship in science — $50,000 annually
for three years — will catalyze increased funding for his research.
“It’s wonderful that the university has this type of intramural support,”
Baker says. “When done correctly, an investment like this can be leveraged
into larger extramural grants, further accelerating the pace of discovery.
I’m optimistic that we can turn it around into a $1.5 million grant in the
next two years — a ten-time return within the life of the fellowship.”
As co-founder of Promentis Pharmaceuticals, a start-up company
dedicated to discovering pharmacological treatments for neuropsychiatric
diseases, Baker understands that it takes this level of funding commitment
when breaking new ground in neuroscience. When it comes to caring for
the whole person, the research is worth the investment.
“The statistics are staggering,” Baker says. “According to the National
Resource and Training center on Homelessness and Mental Illness,
25 percent of the single adult homeless population suffers from
some form of severe, persistent mental illness.”
“We’re going to improve patient care for people with schizophrenia
by understanding the underlying causes, with some of the most powerful
techniques used in neuroscience,” he says. “It’s research that’s rooted in
the mission of Marquette.”
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Dr. David Baker, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences Dr. Stephen Guastello, Department of Psychology, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences