Marquette president dies: Wisconsin university pres. Michael Lovell dies in Rome after battle with sarcoma cancer [Video]

MILWAUKEE — Marquette University President Michael Lovell died Sunday in Rome after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 57.

University officials said in a news release posted on X, the social medial platform formerly known as Twitter, that Lovell had been suffering from sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that develops in the bones and soft tissues. Lovell and his wife, Amy, were in Rome on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage when he fell ill and was taken to a hospital, according to the news release.

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“When you don’t know how much time you have left, you want your days to be impactful and you want to do things that you love,” Lovell said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2022. “And so you ask me, why do I want to work? Well, you know, there are days that …