Dr. Cathy Rogers and Professor Valerie Andrews were honored with faculty awards at this year's College of Social Sciences Honors Convocation.
Alumna Judy Reese Morse was named First Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff for Mayor Landrieu.
Megan Vonk was awarded the Political Science Outstanding Achievement award for a minor at the 2010 College of Social Sciences Honors Convocation
Kevin W. Welsh was presented with the Political Science Outstanding Academic Achievement award at the 2010 College of Social Sciences Honors Convocation.

Dr. Nathan Henne, assistant professor of Latin American Literature and Spanish, won the Marquette to produce a translation of Guatemalan author and indigenous activist Luis de Lión’s 1975 novel El tiempo principia en Xibalba (Time Begins in Xibalba).
Prof. Andrew J. Douglas, visiting professor of political science, was awarded the Excellence in Teaching award at the 2010 College of Social Sciences Honor's Convocation.
Provost Distinguished Professor of History, Dr. Bernard Cook will present his paper, The Catholic Church in the United States and “Solidarity” at an International Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. The Conference is titled: The World towards “Solidarity” Movement 1980–1989.
Holly Gardner, Jonathan Lucio, Warner Sevin, and Jamal Lawson inducted to Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society

Lesley Lucas, Honors senior majoring in English/Writing, has received a position teaching English in France through L'académie de Poitiers. For the 2010-2011 academic year, she is participating in the Teaching Assistant Program in France sponsored by the French Ministry of Education.

Brett Bonin holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Philosophy and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola. He was elected to the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) in 2008, appointed to the Board of Directors of the Louisiana School Board Association (LSBA) in 2009, and is on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). He was appointed to District Attorny Leon Canizzaro's Transition Team and Mayor Elect Mitch Landrieu's Education Task Force. He is a practicing family law attorney, the Chair of the Louisiana Bar Association's Practice and Assistance Committee, and he moderated and taught the Bar Association's Ethics School. While a philosophy student at Loyola, he volunteered with the New Orleans Police Department Crisis Unit and Continued to serve for a total of nine years. He also volunteered with the Orleans Parish Civil Sheriff for eight years.