Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games, the first genre study of first-person videogames, concludes with an essay by Loyola University New Orleans assistant professor Timothy Welsh, Ph.D.
Climbing Kilimanjaro for the Physics of Tomorrow is a fundraiser organized by a Physics student, Douglas Alexander, and designed to purchase and distribute physics demonstrations to public high schools in the New Orleans area.
Jonathan Lucio(Physics/Pre Engineering 13') spent the past summer working as a intern at a geothermal power plant in Northern California.
The Religious Studies Department made awards to two top majors at the Spring 2012 Awards Convocation.
The Rev. Sandra Bastone Barnes ’86 (religious studies) was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Armin Kargol, Assoc. Professor in Physics has received an NSF grant for a project titled "Towards wireless nano-electrostimulation of ion channels in mammalian cells". His research will be done in collaboration with Dr. Leszek Malkinski from the Advanced Materials Research Institute at UNO.
Michael Kammer (Phys'12) has received a "Best Presentation" award for his research titled "Study of Macromolecular Complexes" done at the South Bohemia University Institute of Nanotechnology and Structural Biology in the Nove Hrady, Czech Republic.
Dr. Patricia Dorn, Professor of Biological Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans, was awarded a 5-year NSF/NIH Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease grant "Modeling disease transmission using spatial mapping of vector-parasite genetics and vector feeding patterns" for $568,343.
Tom Gibbs ’09 (history), special projects historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, La., has traveled around the country interviewing the remaining World War II veterans and then taking those oral histories and implementing them in various capacities at the museum.
The Rev. James J. Pillar, O.M.I., Distinguished Professorship in History was established in honor of Fr. James Pillar, a history professor at Loyola.