Dr. Connie Rodriguez received the Martha and Artemis Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award of the Archaeological Institute of America at the 146th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies in New Orleans. The award recognizes over 20 years of service to the AIA, including hosting three annual meetings in New Orleans, on January 9, 2015.
Rise Dicks (B.A., Classical Studies, '15) worked on the excavation of a Roman bath complex at the site of Carsulae with the Valdosta State University.
Ed Merritt (B.A., Classical Studies, '05) is part of the World Languages faculty at New Orleans’ Brother Martin High School. Ed is head of the Latin program which features beginning Latin through Latin III.
Jason Clay (Classical Studies major, '14) presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle-West and South. The paper, "The Blame Game: Helen of Troy as Rhetor," was a section of Jason's senior thesis, which was an extended study of the interplay of blame and shame in Homer's Iliad. Jason presented his work April 2014 in Waco, Texas.
The January 26, 2015 issue of the American Academy of Religion's Spotlight on Teaching, devoted to teaching about new religious movements, includes Professor Catherine Wessinger's essay "Integrating New Religions Scholarship into Religious Studies Courses." It is available at: http://rsn.aarweb.org/node/148
Tom Sevick (Environmental Biology '12) is now working on a graduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi where his research evaluates the value of major marsh habitats to fishes and crustaceans in coastal Mississippi. One of the ways he evaluates these habitats involves taking aerial picture of marsh, such as the one shown here.
Dr. Catherine Wessinger was featured in the American Academy of Religion's special January 2015 "Spotlight on Teaching" which focused on "Teaching New and Alternative Religious Movements".
Letter from Erin Little, English major, ‘15
Modern Language Association annual conference, January 2015
Vancouver, B.C.
I am a person who has come to define myself by how well I do in school. My education has constituted the major structure of my life up to this point, as is true among many of my peers in the senior class. Luckily, I ended up at a university among faculty whose chief goal is to guide students to real success.
Birdwhistell named recipient of the University's highest award for faculty members.
Members of the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences (HNS) were honored during the Loyola University New Orleans Faculty and Staff Convocation held on January 9, 2015.