Dr. Leonard Kahn, assistant professor of Philosophy, presented a paper titled "Robophobia: Military Robots and the Ethics of Armed Conflict" the annual conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) in Reston, Virginia on February 19, 2016 and at the conference for the Humanities and Education Research Association (HERA) in New Orleans, LA on March 25, 2016.
Erica Saccucci-Price (B.A., Classical Studies, 2003) has recently become an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. Erica has taught Christian Theology and Women and Religion as an adjunct for several years at Loyola University Chicago. Her interests are Christian Ethics, specifically in the areas of Reproductive Ethics and Technologies, and Religious Filmography.
John Makarewicz (B.A., Classical Studies, '05) earned an MA degree in Classical Studies from the University of Missouri in St. Louis. He has been teaching Latin at Charminade College Prep School for several years. He also coaches football and lacrosse.
Bridget Thomas (Classical Studies major, '16) is assisting the curator of the Hermann-Grima House as the staff moves everything out this Spring in preparation for the installment of a new AC and humidity machine. Her duties include archiving the family's book collection which has over 900 volumes that need to be sorted. Moreover, she will be determining which books were printed prior to 1830. As she helps pack the artifacts properly, she will be keeping a log of the artifacts as they go into storage.
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.
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.
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.