Lauren Sieben

It’s a stroke of good fortune when a great meal is just stumbling distance from your hotel room. But some hotel restaurants are worth the trip even if you aren’t staying on-site. Whether you’re hungry for rooftop Peruvian fare, a seasonal prix fixe menu, or hot and gooey poutine on a patio, these restaurants rank among the best in the region—and they just so happen to be situated within hotels.
Idol Wolf
St. Louis
A former YMCA now houses the übercool 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis: part museum, ...

How executive education leads to lasting connections and tangible takeaways
When Erin Stanek, a senior vice president at Baird, learned about the Elevate program—a women’s leadership development series created in partnership between TEMPO and Marquette’s executive education program—she immediately signed up to join the first cohort.
“I was thinking it would be a good opportunity for personal and professional development,” Stanek says. “It could give me the tools and the skill set to do more i...

Well-honed curriculum and hands-on experiences in the Hartman Literacy and Learning Center give students expert preparation for phonics-based “science of reading” methods now mandated by law.
When the Wisconsin legislature passed Act 20 in 2023, it ushered in a statewide mandate for teachers to use a phonics-based approach when teaching elementary school students to read.
The law’s requirement to base literacy instruction on the “science of reading” left elementary schools across the state sc...

Even before he graduated from Marquette this spring, digital media major Collin Nawrocki already had an impressive resume as a video producer.
For three years, he interned for Marquette Athletics, creating photo and video content under fast-paced conditions for the men’s basketball team; he was a graphics intern at Plum Media, a Milwaukee-based video production and events company with a global reach; and he worked a summer job with Major League Baseball, capturing photos and videos at home Br...

Marquette Business students across all majors are learning to harness AI technology, including through a new course that introduces every undergraduate in the college to the practical — and ethical — use of AI in business.

Dave Wilcox’s industry expertise, empathetic style and approachability have helped to define advertising education at Marquette and create an enduring legacy.

Web-hosting company IONOS served a mix of audio and video ads for a full-funnel campaign on Spotify to drum up impressions and website traffic—all while making the most of their existing creative assets.

Milwaukee tends to surprise people, but to those of us who live here, the city’s charms are no secret—the rest of the world has been sleeping on us. The Cream City is on the map for a world-class culinary scene, renowned museums, major-league sports and, of course, beer. As a longtime Milwaukee resident and Midwest Living's Wisconsin scout, I'm well acquainted with the city's hottest spots and local favorites.
With Lake Michigan beaches that feel downright Caribbean in the summer and tree-lin...

From working on feature films to hosting the 24-hour film race, students are contributing to Marquette’s vibrant film scene and using it as a springboard to exciting creative and career pursuits.
March 21, 2024
5 min. read
The two-minute trailer for “Diffraction” might give you goose bumps. The tension builds in scenes spliced together to show a young university janitor discovering a professor’s dark secret: creating weapons for mercenaries.
The trailer is as polished as the previews you woul...

TikTok is full of videos demonstrating gua sha techniques, jade roller tips and facial massages that claim to promote “lymphatic drainage” — a process that reduces swelling from the lymph nodes that, according to some posts on social media, can cause facial puffiness.
For the uninitiated, gua sha is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that uses a smooth tool to scrape the skin in different parts of the body. Gua sha has been a mainstay of traditional Chinese medicine for centuries, and t...

Online French E-commerce platform, WETHENEW, offers an array of authentic, limited-edition sneakers and streetwear. In preparation for the highly anticipated 2022 holiday season, the company launched an engaging advertising campaign on Spotify to enhance brand visibility. Their goal was to expand their reach and establish the brand as the go-to platform for fashionable streetwear and sneakers in France.

Conventional wisdom says that you need a lot of cash to purchase a home—20 percent of the purchase price for the down payment, to be exact. But is that really true? Not necessarily.
It turns out there are several avenues to home ownership that don't require putting down 20 percent of the purchase price. This is good news for buyers since that kind of down payment can quickly amount to tens of thousands of dollars—or more. And not everyone has access to that kind of cash.
Wondering how to buy ...

If you're lucky, your retirement-age parents are well prepared for retirement, with plenty of money saved and plans in place for their assets as they age.
Unfortunately, not everyone near retirement is in such a good position. As the child of aging parents, you may be worried that your parents haven't saved enough. Or perhaps you're concerned that they haven't considered all the important questions that loom as retirement nears.
Here are a few ways you can help your parents plan for retiremen...