LMU Conference Focuses on the Role of Race in American Comics
What are the roles and responsibilities of America’s comic book artists in portraying diversity, racial discrimination, ethnic images and stereotypes on the pages of the comic books and graphic novels...
View ArticleLMU Campaign Exceeds $400 Million with Gift from Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange
Loyola Marymount University’s capital campaign has raised more than $400 million, exceeding its campaign goal by greater than $20 million, the university announced today. The campaign was put over the...
View ArticleStudents Wooed to Teaching by NSF Grant
The Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, which gives grants to train gifted college math and science students to teach in under-served school districts, has awarded $1.2 million to Loyola Marymount...
View ArticleLMU Hosts Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration
The Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Jewish Studies Program holds its annual Kristallnacht Commemoration Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. with a lecture by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author and senior associate...
View ArticleIcons and Images Take Center Stage at Ecumenical Symposium
The living tradition of the iconography and sacred art of the Orthodox and Catholic churches will be explored in a two-day symposium at Loyola Marymount University on Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb....
View ArticleScholar Offers Clear-eyed Look at the Nexus of Sport, Gender and Media
Why is it, more than 40 years after Title IX – and with some women gaining high profiles as sport reporters and commentators – that coverage and sports departments are still dominated by men, and...
View ArticleInaugural Milligan Lecture Features Renowned Woman Catholic Scholar
Sister Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M, a leading authority on women and Catholicism will address “The Resurrection: Did It Really Happen and Why Does That Matter?” at the inaugural Mary Milligan, R.S.H.M....
View ArticleHolocaust Survivor film, ‘Children Without A Shadow,’ Has West Coast Premiere...
The West Coast premiere of “Children Without A Shadow,” a stirring documentary about young Holocaust survivors, will be screened for the public on April 7 by the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola...
View ArticleSymposium Focuses on Storytelling as Teaching Tool
IISSAM, the premier gathering of teaching and learning scholars, will meet at Loyola Marymount University May 30 – June 2, 2013. This year’s theme, “storytelling”, will focus on the role of stories in...
View ArticleConference Targets New Approach to Education
Top scholars in education, philosophy, and psychology will gather at Loyola Marymount University for the first-of-its-kind conference on the importance of teaching intellectual character and...
View ArticleFuturistic View of African-Americans Explored at LMU Astro-Blackness Colloquium
African-American comic book, graphic novel, film and science fiction writers, critics and their followers gathered at Loyola Marymount University last week for a two-day colloquium, “Astro-Blackness:...
View ArticleLMU Creates Binational Partnership With Mexico City’s Instituto Tecnológico...
An innovative program to educate undergraduates on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border will get under way this summer, thanks to a new partnership between Loyola Marymount University and the Instituto...
View ArticleNot One More Death: LMU Stands in Solidarity with the Students of Ayotzinapa
Since the disappearance of 43 first-year teacher’s college students near Iguala, Guerrero on September 26, Mexico has been engulfed in its greatest human rights and political crisis in perhaps a...
View ArticleWorld Policy Institute Expands to LMU
The World Policy Institute, in partnership with Loyola Marymount University’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, announces the creation of the World Policy Institute at LMU, a first of its kind...
View ArticleCurator and Art Scholar Pratapaditya Pal Receives LMU’s Doshi Family...
Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, an art scholar and former curator at LACMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, will be given the annual Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award in a...
View ArticleProfessor Honored for Her Commitment to Community Psychology
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View ArticleGina D’Alesandro ’11 Talks Climate Change
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View ArticleAmbassadors Gather for Forum on Democracy, Foreign Policy at WPI@LMU Launch
Four former U.S. ambassadors will discuss the greatest foreign policy challenges facing democracies today in a panel to be held Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 5 p.m. at Loyola Marymount University. The event...
View ArticleWomen’s Studies Professor Honored with Graves Award
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View ArticleU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Receive Honorary Degree from LMU
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Loyola Marymount University on Wednesday, April 6, at 10:45 a.m., in an invitation-only...
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