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The Legacy of Philanthropy: In 1986, a Surprise Bequest Enabled LMU to Achieve a New Vision of Excellence
In 1986, Loyola Marymount University received an unexpected $44 million gift from Beverly Hills oil heiress Liliore Green Rains. Under the stewardship of President James N. Loughran, S.J. and a visionary academic administration committed to…
Press Releases
Janelle Monáe Tells LMU Graduates: “We Need a New Standard of Love”
LOS ANGELES — Janelle Monáe, acclaimed artist, author, actor, and fashion icon, told Loyola Marymount University master’s degree and doctoral candidates on Sunday that “we need a new standard of love in this world.”…
John Legend to LMU Grads: “I Cannot Wait to See How You Will Harness the Power of Love”
LOS ANGELES — Award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter John Legend told Loyola Marymount University’s Class of 2024 on Saturday that the history through which they’ve lived – a once-in-a-century pandemic, converging national and global crises –…
LMU Introduces Doctor of Business Administration Program
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University College of Business Administration is adding a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program in the fall. This part-time, hybrid program is designed for accomplished professionals eager to deepen…
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…
Campus News
LeBlanc Loo’s Dance Documentary “Can You Bring It” Wins 2024 Peabody Award
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, a documentary produced by dance professor and chair Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, and featuring performances by LMU Dance students, has won a 2024 Peabody Award in the Arts Category. LeBlanc Loo co-directed the film with the celebrated documentarian Tom Hurwitz, ASC. Peabody Awards honor excellence in storytelling that reflects the social issues and the emerging voices of our day. The ceremony will take place on June 9 in Los Angeles. Can You Bring It brings to life the creative process that culminated in choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones’s tour de force ballet D-Man in the Waters, one of the most important works of art to come out of the AIDS crisis. In 1989, D-Man in…
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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
FEATURED CONTENT
Joan Didion’s California
Curious About Crows
KXLU’s Alma Del Barrio
The Transfer Portal
A Conversation With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Fall 2022
FEATURED CONTENT
L.A.’s Oil Neighborhoods
Native Americans in Film
Yolo County’s COVID Outbreak
Athletes’ NIL Streams
A Conversation With Misty Copeland
Winter 2022
FEATURED CONTENT
Climate Chaos
Alvarado and 3rd
Driving Ambition
Mind Bridges
A Conversation With Holly Mitchell
Summer 2021
FEATURED CONTENT
Crowning Achievement
A Conversation With Vin Scully
The Dogs That Save Us
Amped Up
A Conversation With Nadia Kim
Western Waters
Winter 2020
FEATURED CONTENT
The System
The Unforgettable Run
Nature Nurture
The Saintly Order
For Gilberto Ramos
Obama’s Mirror
