After Graduating from Loyola with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy, Deborah Drew received a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She works as an attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco, where she represents indigent petitioners in death penalty habeas corpus proceedings before the Supreme Court of California and the federal courts.
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.
Dr. Talukdar presents paper at the 73rd annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society April 21-24 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Emmanuel David, '03, recently received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado. and has accepted a teaching position at Villanova University.
Five Loyola University New Orleans public relations students won second-place in the 2010 Bateman Case Study Competition.
French alum, Katherine Karcher, prestigious grad program in French at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
U.S. Representative Anh “Joseph” Cao, J.D.’00, of Louisiana’s second congressional district, and the Rev. Mark Massa, S.J., Ph.D., the Karl Rahner Professor of Theology and director of the Curran Center for Catholic studies at Fordham University, will be on Loyola University New Orleans’ main campus Monday, April 19, to deliver talks on Ignatian spirituality and Catholicism. Both talks take place in the Danna Student Center St. Charles Room and are free and open to the public.
In April, 2010, political science students presented research findings to the City Council's Criminal Justice Committee at New Orleans City Hall.