Ella Hall (ENVB '19) and Abby Perez (BIOL '20), co-directors of Late Nights at Loyola, received the Loyola Strength in Diversity Grant to help fund Late Nights for this academic year. Late Nights at Loyola is a program where students come to campus twice a semester (Oct 23, Nov 27, Feb 19, Apr 9) to engage in hands-on learning activities that include both laboratory and field techniques taught by Loyola students, faculty and alumni. Programs like this are particularly important for African-American students who go to schools that are less likely to offer advanced science courses (In Nola schools that are predominantly African-American, only 23% offer Calculus and 59% Physics according to LDOE, 2017).