A partnership between Loyola School of Mass Communication students and a major news organization is bringing professional experience and awards to the SMC.
When biology professor David White, Ph.D., takes his students into the swamp, he likes to go after dark. The wetlands south of New Orleans that he leads his classes through in canoes are full of snakes, spiders, and insects, and he will periodically tell students where to point their flashlights so they can reflect constellations of red alligator eyes.
This special and very timely issue of American Behavioral Scientist, co-edited by Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper, brings together the work by preeminent disaster scholars from Loyola, Tulane, the University of New Orleans, Brown University and University of Colorado Boulder in an examination of long term disaster recovery in the United States.
Mr. Dougherty, who took his BA in History in 2014, was recently awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to teach English in Indonesia. When asked to reflect on his time at Loyola, he said, “Between its faculty and its student body, the humanities departments at Loyola University New Orleans provided me with a progressive community of thinkers and activists from which to grow intellectually and socially. More specifically, I can directly attribute my development as a writer and critical thinker to my history major courses.
Mara graduated with honors in 2015. In her final year at Loyola she racked up an impressive number of awards including a Fulbright U. S. Student Grant to teach English in Tajikistan. She received the Department of History's "Outstanding Graduate Award," and completed her three-year stint as editor-in-chief of the Loyola University Student Historical Journal. Mara's honors thesis "Woody Guthrie: Instrument of Change: Woody Guthrie as a Social Justices Advocate, Leader, and Enduring Inspiration" received the Constance Mui and John T. Sebastian Award for Outstanding Research in Honors.
Christopher Backes (Classical Studies minor, '15) received the Emmett M. Bienvenu Award for Excellence in Greek during the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Honors Convocation in May 2015.
Rose Dicks (B.A., Classical Studies, '15) received the Rev. Paul L. Callens, S.J. Award for Excellence in Latin during the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Honors Convocation in May 2015.
Rebecca McMillian (B.A., Classical Civilizations, '15) received the inaugural Thomas B. Lemann Award as the outstanding major in Classical Civilizations during the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Honors Convocation in May 2015.
Congratulations to the following students who received awards from the Department of Psychological Sciences at the 2015 Humanities and Natural Sciences Honors Convocation Ceremony:
Distinguished Student of Psychology Award
Ms. Jessica D. Williams
Dr. Gerald S. Clack Distinguished Professional Service Award
Mr. Samuel A. Golden
Mr. Brian G. Reaney, II
Dr. Paddy Ann Doll Senior Academic Achievement Award
Ms. Mara T. Steven
Outstanding Research Award
Kenneth Keulman, Provost Distinguished Professor, was an invited speaker and roundtable participant on European Identity Politics, at the 1989 Generation Initiative Conference on the Redefinition of the European Mission, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on June 26.