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Achievements

This year (2015-16) Robert Verchick a faculty member in the Environment Program has written and published a variety of works on Environmental Law. Robert has also spoke on many important environmental topics here in the US and internationally. See more detailed information here.

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.

Tropical Ecology Program

Loyola’s Tropical Ecology study abroad program combines lectures and discussions on campus with field trips to Central America.

Take a look at the video of what our Tropical Ecology class did this May ’16.

Loyola’s Environment Program’s Presence at the 1st Network Meeting of the International Association for Plant UV Research (UV4Plants) at Pécs, Hungary

 

Loyola professor and students teach children about invertebrates at BASIN (Building Active Stewardship In New Orleans)

 

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

 

Destiny Karash-Givens was given the environmental major for excellence in service award this year at Loyola’s Honors Convocation.

Destiny has been involved in all of these service activities during her time at Loyola. These activities have included:

This award is presented to a staff member who demonstrates outstanding service above and beyond what is required and expected.  Mark has and continues to do outstanding work in the Loyola greenhouse. 

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.

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