September 02, 2025

Marquise named a Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania

After completing his Ph.D. at Rice University, Marquise is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He will be working in Prof. Kevin Turner’s research group to further develop applications for tunable adhesion in soft and wearable robotics!

April 23-26, 2025

Marquise Selected as a RoboSoft 2025 Rising Star

Aimed at junior and upcoming researchers in the field of soft robotics, Marquise was named a Rising Star for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). Marquise will present his research in a special session at RoboSoft 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland!

November 7-8, 2024

Marquise Selected as a Caltech EAS Trailblazer

After a competitive application process, Marquise was selected as one of the seven 2024 Caltech EAS Trailblazers. Marquise will participate in the future faculty workshop and deliver the Mechanical and Civil Engineering departmental seminar (link).

May 05, 2024

Notre Dame Future Faculty Workshop

Marquise was invited to the campus of Notre Dame University to attend the 2024 Future Faculty Workshop for senior-level graduate students and postdocs interested in academic careers in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines.

August 28, 2023

NextProf NEXUS 2023

Marquise was accepted to the NextProf NEXUS 2023 workshop hosted at Georgia Tech. This competitive workshop helps prepare a diverse group of highly talented graduate students and postdocs pursue academic faculty positions in engineering.

January 03, 2023

Institute of Physics (IOP) Best Presentation

After presenting in at the 2022 Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Marquise was awarded an Institute of Physics Best Presentation Award for his talk titled “A Heat-Based Self-Decontaminating Textile Material for Wearables.”

August 27, 2021

Marquise’s Accomplishments Highlighted in WFISD

Marquise’s recent accomplishments in graduate school were highlighted in the Wichita Falls Independent School District’s (WFISD) newsletter.

August 21, 2021

Marquise Named a NSTGRO Fellow

Marquise was awarded a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Fellowship! This fellowship will support the research of developing multifunctional textile materials to be integrated into space suits with the intent of lessening the weight and number of layers while increasing functionality.

May 14, 2021

Hirschi Men Can Scholarship

A group of five Hirschi High School graduates (Brandon Sheppard, c/o ’12, Zackary Brown, c/o ’12, Dominique Bobo, c/o ’13, Nathan Alexander III, c/o ’16, and Marquise Bell, c/o ’16) co-founded a $500 scholarship for minority men graduating from their alma mater.

September 03, 2020

Marquise Named a GEM Fellow

Marquise was named a 2020 GEM Associate Fellow through the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science. GEM’s mission is to enhance the value of the nation’s human capital by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups (African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanic Americans) at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science.

July 13, 2020

Marquise Joins the PI Lab

Marquise accepted a full-time PhD offer in Prof. Daniel Preston’s lab in mechanical engineering at Rice University. There, he plans to investigate the mechanical and thermal properties of soft wearable materials.

May 06, 2020

Marquise Graduates From Baylor University

Marquise Bell graduated from Baylor University in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s of Science in mechanical engineering and minors in both mathematics and computer science.