Lauren Sieben

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...

Carey was 22 weeks pregnant when a cyst was spotted on her baby’s neck during a routine ultrasound.
“Just hearing that is terrifying, so naturally you get on the computer and start doing your own research,” Carey says. “Which is even more terrifying, because you always go toward the worst-case scenario.”
Carey and her husband were referred to Children’s Wisconsin, where their baby was diagnosed with lymphatic malformation: A rare but benign mass of abnormal lymph vessels that can cause signif...

The Educational Studies program offers Marquette students a nontraditional pathway – one related to education, but beyond the classroom. Graduates of the program become guidance counselors, psychologists, nonprofit administrators — or often take the plunge into graduate school. Since the program started in 2017, it has grown from eight students to more than 40 majors and minors by fall 2022.
Illustration by David Vogin – Gwendolyn Lazenby, pictured
Gwendolyn Lazenby always knew she wanted to ...

We’ve been hooked on caffeine for ages — more than 3,000 years at least. The stimulant was first discovered in China around 1,000 BCE, according to our earliest records of people drinking a beverage made from Camellia sinensis leaves. Since then, tea, coffee and other caffeinated drinks have become an integral part of daily life in most cultures. More than 90 percent of the global population consumes caffeine every single day.
You’ve probably seen (and perhaps ignored) myriad scary headlines ...