Loyola School of Mass Communication Senior Mary Staes is turning her multimedia training from SMC classes into opportunities for unique internships.
As part of activities marking the centennial of the publication of Albert Einstein’s groundbreaking work in General Relativity, the American Physical Society has put together a short list of the landmark papers published in APS journals these past one hundred years. Among the works authored by celebrated physicists such as Einstein himself, Stephen Hawking, Robert Oppenheimer, Roger Penrose etc. is a paper by our own Carl Brans (coauthored with Robert Dicke).
"The research provided important insights into the costs and benefits of UV-sunscreen protection in plants and has important implications for developing crop plants that can cope with altered UV conditions occurring as a result of climate change."
Dr. Sean Cain recently met with international visitors sent by the U.S. Department of State, International Visitor Leadership Program.
The American Historical Association has awarded the prestigious John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History to the History Department's Dr. Rian Thum for his book, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Prof. Robert M. Verchick was named President of the Center for Progressive Reform
String theory is widely believed to be the best candidate for a unified theory of all the four fundamental forces in nature. Recently, Dr. Biswas along with his collaborator, Dr. Okada, from University of Alabama investigated whether a particular "stringy" feature, "nonlocality", can be detected at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) run that is currently underway. LHC is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator consisting of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
Jose E. Lozano ('15) was accepted to graduate school at Loyola University Chicago, Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Wayne Mitchell ('14) was accepted to Applied Mathematics Graduate Program in the College of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
In October, Maria Estorino will join the History Miami Museum as the Vice President of Museum Collections. In this newly created position, Ms. Estorino will oversee both object and archival collections and the museum's research center with an emphasis on making such collections discoverable and accessible and activating them in support of the museum's mission to tell Miami's stories.
Dr. Young Soo Kim publishes article entitled: "World Health Organization and Early Global Response to HIV/AIDS: Emergence and Development of International Norms" in the Journal of International and Area Studies, Volume 22, Number 1, 2015, pp. 19-40.