Author: Anna Miller

Bee the Change, a non-profit organization based in Redeemer Lutheran Church, trains meal program participants to be beekeepers and increases awareness of the importance of having beehives in urban areas. Over 90,000 bees are busy at work making honey, carrying pollen, and building honeycombs on the rooftop of Redeemer Lutheran Church, located on 19th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, at the edge of Marquette University’s campus. The church stands between two worlds, one of poverty and the other of prosperity. The nonprofit Bee the Change bridges these economic opposites through the care of bees. The effort is run by volunteer...

The second annual HKE MKE raised money to support the Urban Ecology Center’s mission of environmental education and land stewardship. The Urban Ecology Center held the second annual HKE MKE (“Hike Milwaukee”) on September 18 at its Riverside location. The event attracted downtown and suburban Milwaukeeans alike, to enjoy the 15-acre arboretum along the Milwaukee River. The 2.5 mile hike raised over $35,000 for the Urban Ecology Center’s mission of land stewardship and education, especially of the city’s youth. “We really want kids who live in our surrounding neighborhoods to have a connection to the park,” said Jeff McAvoy,...

Women are statistically underrepresented in the field of philosophy. Two Marquette University philosophy professors weighed in on why this is gender-based situation. Philosophy, a discipline that champions feminist fundamentals such as knowledge, values, and reason, is unequal in when it comes to women in higher education. Many are surprised to learn that philosophy departments rank below most of the physical sciences in terms of the percentage of women holding tenure-track positions in the field. A quantitative analysis published in the American Society of Philosophy’s (APA) Committee on the Status of Women revealed that women represent only 25% of full...