Dr. Rosenbecker presented her paper, "Two-a-Day: American Vaudeville and Greek Old Comedy", at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Williamsburg, Virgina (March 16-19, 2016).
Dr. Rosenbecker's adaptation of Aristophanes' Wealth (performed by the Theater department in Spring 2013) will appear in the Spring 2016 edition of "The Mercurian", a journal dedicated to discussion of translation and adaptation of plays, and their performances.
Michael Kammer (Physics'12) has received a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. His thesis title is "Characterizing Aptamer-Small Molecule Interactions with Backscattering interferometry". He is also a co-author of two articles recently published in The Analyst and in PNAS Plus.
Philosophy students Brittney Esie, Thanh Mai, and Emily Polvado presented their paper "Regenerative Medicine and the Environment" at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio on April 9, 2016.
Alexandra Thayer, a finance and management double major with a mathematics minor, was awarded a teaching assistantship in the Department of Statistics, Florida State University for the 2016 academic year. The assistantship includes a tuition waiver for 9 credits and a stipend for the fall and spring semesters.
On March 2, 2016, Dr. Kahn participated in a panel titled "Why We Need Feminism Today in America” as part of the first annual Loyola University New Orleans Feminist Festival.
Studying abroad in Belize and Guatemala with Loyola’s Tropical Ecology and Tropical Communications courses reinvigorated Environmental Science graduate Jenny Simon’s (BS ’14) love for adventure and international travel. After graduation, Jenny moved to Key Largo, Florida and became a scuba diving instructor, dive master, and underwater naturalist. Jenny and some friends then spent five months traveling through Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala in order to learn more about the cultures and natural landscapes of Central America.
Kelsey Van Dam, a Biological Sciences major at Loyola University New Orleans, was awarded $2,500 from the Louisiana Sea Grant Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program to conduct collaborative research with Professor Frank Jordan. Kelsey will study how the recently constructed Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lake Borgne Surge Barrier affects recruitment of larval blue crabs into the Lake Pontchartrain estuary.
On March 3, 2016, Dr. Trevor Boffone presented "The Panza Monologues: Latin@ Theatre in the US, Comedy, and Social Consciousness" to an audience of students and professors of Latin American Studies and Spanish, as well as others from the Loyola community. The talk included dramatic readings of two scenes from The Panza Monologues, performed by senior Spanish major Akeem Biggs.
This event was sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Languages
Bridget Thomas (Classical Studies major, '16) has been accepted into Tulane University's School of Architecture where she will pursue a master's degree in Preservation Studies.