In June, English alumna Claire Keegan was awarded the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award.
In 2001, Skelly McCay, double major in Philosophy and English, was awarded a British Marshall Scholarship. In Fall 2001 Mr. McCay entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Currently, Skelly is entering his third year at Tulane Law School.
Florence Bourg is the author of "Where Two or Three Are Gathered: Christian Families as Domestic Churches" and writes book reviews for Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality.
Physics faculty Armin Kargol published a paper "Test of nonequilibrium kinetic focusing of ion channels" (with K. Kabza) in journal "Physical Biology".
Judge Tiffany Gautier Chase was elected to Division A of Orleans Parish Civil District Court in May 2007. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Loyola University and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University School of Law.
Six years after his graduation from Loyola University New Orleans, Chemist Gregory R. Choppin '49 and three other chemists discovered chemical element 101, which they named Mendelevium.
Alison Cernich, Ph.D., graduated from Loyola in 1997. She is currently the Director of Neuropsychology at the VA Maryland Health Care System. She is also an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Michael Juge graduated with a specialization in World Religions. He has completed his M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas.
Martin Pousson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Writing from Loyola University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing from Columbia University. He has taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey, at Columbia University in New York, and at Loyola University in New Orleans.