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LMU Awarded 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award
Loyola Marymount University has been named a recipient of the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. “I’m honored…
LMU President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., Announces Plans to Retire at the End of his Term
Loyola Marymount University President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., has announced his plan to retire on May 31, 2025, concluding an impactful and transformative 10-year tenure at the institution. Snyder, who became LMU’s 16th president…
Press Releases
LMU Welcomes New Trustees and Regents
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University welcomes 13 new members to its Board of Trustees and Board of Regents, embracing their leadership experience and diverse backgrounds to support LMU’s mission and commitment to academic…
The Nov. 5 Elections: LMU Experts Available for Media Interviews
LOS ANGELES — The 2024 presidential election is just three weeks away and Loyola Marymount University has faculty experts available to respond to media inquiries about the issues on voters’ minds, including the economy…
LMU Radio’s KXLU-FM Honors Latinx Heritage Month at Salsa Fest
LOS ANGELES — Salsa Fest, a daylong celebration of Latin music, dancing, food, and local vendors hosted by LMU’s Radio’s KXLU-FM, returns to Loyola Marymount University in its seventh year during Latinx Heritage Month….
LMU Receives $5 Million from W.M. Keck Foundation to Support New Engineering Innovation Complex
LOS ANGELES — Loyola Marymount University has received a $5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation in support of the new Engineering Innovation Complex (EIC), a planned capital expansion for LMU Frank R….
Campus News
National Grants Boost LMU’s HeadsUP Recovery Research
Riding a wave of grant funding, HeadsUP Labs in Loyola Marymount University’s Psychological Science Department now has six active grant projects totaling over $ 11 million, five of which have been awarded in the past year. The HeadsUp team, led by Joseph LaBrie, Ph.D., is engaged in exploring innovative approaches to address substance use issues, via parents, social media, and the gamification of social norms approaches with college students and underrepresented groups such as LBGTQ-identified women and with persons in recovery from a substance use disorder. “We are excited that NIH, and specifically NIAAA and NIDA, have determined that our proposed projects will have high impact on the various topics and with the populations we are studying,” said LaBrie, professor…
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Podcasts and Video
Cheryl Grills on Reparations
Cheryl Grills, professor in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, was appointed to the California state task force tasked with proposing reparations to the state’s Black descendants of enslaved people. She talks about the long-term harms of slavery and possible steps to repair the wrongs.
Ben Bolch on NIL impact
Name, image and likeness (NIL) payments represent a new, large cash flow into college athletics. Much will stream toward athletes through sponsorships and endorsements. But some scenarios are deeply troubling. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times staff writer, describes a new era that is changing college athletics.
Mary Agnes Erlandson on homelessness
Homelessness has many causes, and Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82 directs a social services center in Lennox that offers programs addressing many of them. She says focusing on people’s needs, especially housing, can change people’s lives for the better. She has seen it happen.
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
