Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has traveled to some of the world's most dangerous places, documenting and battling human trafficking. In the course of his reporting, Bales began to notice a pattern emerging: Where slavery existed, so did massive, unchecked environmental destruction.
Aimée K. Thomas, Ph.D.
University Senate Award: Teaching
The Drs. Rachel and Stephen Kent Research Endowment for Science and Mathematics and Rev. John H. Mullahy, S.J., Research Endowment for the Sciences were established to support collaborative research by faculty and students. Linda Hexter received a $1000 grant to pay for the cost of publication and presentation of her research project with Dr. Michael Kelly in algebraic topology. She studied the Nielsen theory for functions of homotopy idempotents defined on a bouquet of circles, the space obtained by joining a finite number of circles at a single point.
Dr. Christopher Schaberg, Associate Professor of English
Marquette Award: "Liberal Arts at Work / After David Foster Wallace"
At Loyola over the past several years, I have found myself working on two
seemingly unrelated projects, which have recently come together in the form of
a new book project.
Grants were awarded to two professors of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry by the University Committee of Internal Grants. Dr. Qian Qin, first-year assistant professor, was awarded a Marquette Faculty Fellowship for summer 2016. She will explore, "Synthesis of Sulfur-containing Aromatic Compounds as Potential Organic Superconductors”. Dr. C.J. Stephenson, fifth-year assistant professor, received a Faculty Development Grant for his proposal entitled, "Formation and Testing of Novel Fluorescent Compounds for Sensing."
Congratulations to both professors.
The Loyola Ethics Bowl team competed for the first time in the 2015 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl competition, placing 8th out of 20 teams. The team traveled to San Antonio, where they competed against teams from various universities in Texas and Oklahoma. The team consists of students Laura Cordell, Brittney Esie, Kalyn Lueck, Thanh Mai, Tara Malay, and Liam Sheridan, with Dr. Joel MacClellan and Dr. Leonard Kahn as coaches.
Not every department gets hit by a hurricane, but not every department has a Karen Rosenbecker to help it rebuild. In the aftermath of Katrina, as Dr. Rosenbecker arrived to take up her assistant professorship at Loyola University New Orleans, Classics was struggling to deal with sharply declining college enrollments and a required merger with Modern Languages.
The University Honors Program named Melanie Sferrazza Student of the Month for her trip to the Everglades with Partners in the Parks as well as her countless hours dedicated to the building and running of urban farms in the New Orleans area.
The Drs. Rachel and Stephen Kent Research Endowment for Science and Mathematics and Rev. John H. Mullahy, S.J., Research Endowment for the Sciences were established to support collaborative research by faculty and students. This year out of six grants, three were awarded to Physics students.
My-Hanh Truong ("Structural Optimization of Amorphous Graphene" - advisor Dr. K. Schaefer), Andrew Eddins (“Innovative Physics Demonstrations for Student Outreach and Instructional Use” - advisor Dr. A. Kargol), and Richard Bustos (“Innovators at work – Projects for the Electronics Club” - advisor Dr. A. Kargol) all receive grants to support their research and educational projects.
In November, 2015, Mu Kappa initiated 6 new members into the national Spanish Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi:
Nydia Araya
Akeem Biggs
Kanda M. Borgognoni
Laura Givnish
Molly Eileen Helie
Sydney Young
¡Enhorabuena a tod@s!
After the initiation ceremony, everyone enjoyed the reception in honor of the new members.