Professor Anthony Ladd in the Environment Program has recently (2015-16) written many books and articles on the very important topic of Fracking. He has also presented, facilitated, and organized a variety of conferences sharing his findings on Fracking. Find out more here.
Parkway Partners Selects Wetlands Educator as 2016 Green Spirit Award Recipient
Dr. Bob Thomas to receive award
At Annual Feast Gala to Be Held Oct. 9
NEW ORLEANS (July 5, 2016) – Parkway Partners today announced that Dr. Bob Thomas will receive the organization’s annual Green Spirit Award at its Feast With Leah gala on Oct. 9, as two legends and a legendary event join forces.
Loyola’s Environment Program’s Presence at the 1st Network Meeting of the International Association for Plant UV Research (UV4Plants) at Pécs, Hungary
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.
Atlas of Science
April 14, 2016
Safely basking in the sun: Some plants apply sunscreen only when they need it
Dr. David White professor in the Environment Program and Biology department co-authored with Dr. Jenneke Visser from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette published a ground breaking study on the "Water quality change in the Mississippi River, including a warming river, explains decades of wetland plant biomass change within its Balize delta." Aquatic Botany 132 (2016) 5-11.
Dr. Christopher Schaberg’s new book The End of Airports was substantially cited in the New Yorker magazine.
Air Head
How aviation made the modern mind.
By Nathan Heller
February 2016
Dr. Christopher Schaberg, Associate Professor of English
Marquette Award: "Liberal Arts at Work / After David Foster Wallace"
At Loyola over the past several years, I have found myself working on two
seemingly unrelated projects, which have recently come together in the form of
a new book project.
Aimée K. Thomas, Ph.D.
University Senate Award: Teaching
Prof. Robert M. Verchick was named President of the Center for Progressive Reform