Press Releases
LMU Names Estela Zarate as Dean of LMU School of Education
LOS ANGELES — Estela Zarate, a nationally recognized higher education leader whose commitment to student success, anti-racism, equity, and civic engagement embodies the Loyola Marymount University mission, will be the next dean of LMU’s…
John Legend, Janelle Monáe to Speak at LMU Commencements
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University will welcome award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter John Legend as the keynote speaker for the 2024 undergraduate commencement exercises on Saturday, May 4; Janelle Monáe, acclaimed artist, author, actor, and…
LMU Law, Business, and Education Programs Again Ranked Among the Nation’s Best in 2024 U.S. News & World Report Grad School Rankings
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University graduate programs in law, business, and education are once again ranked among the best in the country in the newly released U.S. News & World Report 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings. “This…
LMU’s Center for the Study of L.A. to Release 2024 Angeleno Poll
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University’s Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) will release the results of its 2024 Angeleno Poll this month in a four-part webinar series….
Campus News
Students Honored With Annual Academic, Service, and Leadership Awards
A crowd of over 275 students, staff, faculty, family members, and supporters gathered on Friday, April 19, in Sacred Heart Chapel to celebrate more than 100 student award recipients during the 2024 Student Academic, Service, and Leadership Awards ceremony. 190 awards were presented to individual students and registered student organizations, ranging from first-year students to graduating seniors, as well as graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional academic excellence and leadership. These students embody the ideals of Jesuit and Marymount heritages. The event livestream can be viewed here. “You have demonstrated your commitment to interdisciplinary discourse by presenting your work in spaces such as the Undergraduate Research Symposium, the Engineering Design Showcase, or the Young Contemporaries Juried Exhibition,” said President Timothy…
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Podcasts and Video
Tara Pixley on Life By the Oil Fields
Oil drills and storage facilities are scattered across communities in the Los Angeles region. Tara Pixley, who teaches photojournalism in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, has produced photo essays of many of those communities. She describes the dangers experienced by people who live and work in proximity to L.A.’s oil industry.
Aarika Hughes on the Women’s Basketball 2022-23 Season
Aarika Hughes, in her second season as head coach of LMU women’s basketball, describes the strengths of the West Coast Conference competition and the discipline, defense and fast-paced play she intends to confront her opponents with.
Rebecca Delfino on the Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis, which has killed as many as 700,000 Americans in the past 20 years, has fallen off the nation’s radar. Rebecca Delfino, clinical law professor at the LMU Loyola Law School, describes an epidemic and the overprescription practices and misleading marketing that fuels it.
LMU Magazine
Winter 2023
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Joan Didion’s California
Curious About Crows
KXLU’s Alma Del Barrio
The Transfer Portal
A Conversation With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Fall 2022
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L.A.’s Oil Neighborhoods
Native Americans in Film
Yolo County’s COVID Outbreak
Athletes’ NIL Streams
A Conversation With Misty Copeland
Winter 2022
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Climate Chaos
Alvarado and 3rd
Driving Ambition
Mind Bridges
A Conversation With Holly Mitchell
Summer 2021
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Crowning Achievement
A Conversation With Vin Scully
The Dogs That Save Us
Amped Up
A Conversation With Nadia Kim
Western Waters
Winter 2020
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The System
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Nature Nurture
The Saintly Order
For Gilberto Ramos
Obama’s Mirror