Fall 2025: Spaces that Say Stay Awhile

Inside the issue

Cover Story

Spaces across campus are welcoming people, in ways they rarely have before. It's social, in some cases. It's sacred, in others. It's campus improved by design.

Unshakable

Relationships. Growth. Victory. Marquette and Coach Shaka Smart are showing college basketball a different way to win on and off the court.

Neighborhood hub

The Near West Side's Concordia 27 brims with Marquette and community connections, plus affordable rentals, co-working spaces, health services and more.

Long way home

Soccer standout turned culture coach James Nortey counsels his students to keep dreaming big — after his own journey led to a dream job back in Ghana.

Found and lost

A professor lost a piece of herself when the diamond fell from her engagement ring into the vast expanse of campus. Then a community started searching.

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