Carl Brans, Emeritus Professor of Physics, has been elected to a Fellowship in the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions to physics, in particular "for developing the Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor gravitational theory alternative to Einstein's general relativity".
Patrick Garrity, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded a research grant from the Louisiana Space Consortium LaSPACE. The grant will fund the Aerospace Catalyst Experience for Students (ACES) project which will begin in the spring semester of 2012.
Dario El-Badry '09 recently accepted a job teaching English and Reading to children in Bangkok.
It's a circus out there. SMC professor and award-winning journalist . S.L. Alexander's new book Courtroom Carnival is a fascinating "who's who" tour of Louisiana politics.
Recent SMC public relations graduate Dominique Webb '11 and current students Rebecca Molyneux, Kelsey Pabst, Kelsey Morris and Janece Bell received a PRSA Award of Merit entry for their 2011 Bateman campaign.
The CAREER Program offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Wadner Pierre, a 28-year-old Loyola student at the School of Mass Communications was named by alternative newsweekly Gambit as one of 40 New Orleanians under 40 who are making a difference in the Crescent City.
Languages and Cultures alumnus, Timothy J. Prosser ’87, Esq. served as chair of the 2011 National Conference on Philanthropic Planning, held in San Antonio on October 4 – 6, 2011.
The chapter will be featured alongside other winners in Chemical & Engineering News and inChemistry, the student member magazine. In addition, the chapter will be honored at the 249th ACS national meeting in Denver, CO in March.
Dr. Catherine Wessinger, the Reverend H. James Yamauchi, S. J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans has edited the just-released Oxford Handbook of Millenialism.