Dr. Parham was contacted by WWL news and asked to provide some background on the situation in Haiti. A news team interviewed her on campus and a part of that interview was used for the evening news on Friday January 15, 2010.
Sean Cain, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, was awarded a Marquette New Faculty Fellowship Award for the summer of 2010.
Jayna Jenson has been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
David Hershberg ('05) finished his Peace Corps assignment in Costa Rica and will begin the prestigious program at Brandeis University School of Sustainable International Development.
Annick Mégie won the Sigma Delta Pi Scholarship for summer language study at the Universidad Internacional: The Center for Linguistic & Multicultural Studies in Cuernavaca Mexico
Jayna Jenson was accepted into the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. She was granted both the Benjamin Gilman Scholarship and the IFSA Louisiana scholarship to pay for the trip and program!
Hiram Mechling (Pre-Engineering '04) was nominated to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Jackson Stephens '03 is a base prosecutor for Naval Station Great Lakes, where 50,000 sailors attend boot camp every year.
Thomas Reding, '04 alumnus of the Pre-Engineering program, got a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College.
Melissa Smith, a New Orleans-based archivist, historian, and sportswriter, runs a blog www.chicksinthehuddle.com that was recently picked up as a regular feature for the Huffington Post.