Allison Davis '16 receives the Most Outstanding Environment Major Research Award at Honors Convocation

Allison Davis was given the environmental major for excellence in research award this year at Loyola’s Honors Convocation.

Dr. Christopher Schaberg hosts a lecture on "Fracking and the Art of Subtext"

Dr. Kara Thompson is an assistant professor of English & American Studies at the College of William & Mary, and her work focuses on questions of indigeneity, national borders, and temporality. Her recent research interests have taken her into the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, and at Loyola Prof. Thompson will be presenting new work on how hydraulic fracturing relies on specific ways of reading the earth. Her talk at Loyola, “Fracking and the Art of Subtext,” shows how resource extraction depends on narrative structure.

Honors students Melanie Sferrazza '17 and Michael Pashkevich '17 study in the Everglades with Partners in the Park

Honors students Melanie Sferrazza '17, an environmental science junior, and Michael Pashkevich '17, a biological sciences senior, recently spent a week in Everglades National Park learning about invasive species threatening the health of our national parks.

Destiny Karash-Givens ’16 recently completed her research on how students responded to active learning rather than lecture

The purpose of this research was to learn how students in an introductory high school biology class responded to active learning rather than lecture. Active learning is a form of instruction that emphasizes interactions with peers and instructors and involves a cycle of activity and feedback where students are given consistent opportunities to apply their learning in the classroom. By doing this it allows the students to engage in real world experiences, gain constructive knowledge, and use the world around them as a learning environment.