Latinos Now the Dominant Ethnic Group in Los Angeles Politics
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2009 — In 1959, of the 100 most important elected positions in the Los Angeles metropolitan area only one was held by a Latino, one by an African American and…
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2009 — In 1959, of the 100 most important elected positions in the Los Angeles metropolitan area only one was held by a Latino, one by an African American and…
Sales were down 26 percent at the Cookies by Design franchise in Long Beach. Arrangements of freshly baked sugar, cinnamon, chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies weren’t selling like they used to so there were…
Garland Kirkpatrick, associate professor of design in Loyola Marymount University’s College of Communication and Fine Arts, was recently selected by the AIGA, formerly known as the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) as one…
What are “nonhuman persons?” Dolphins are, according to Tom White, the Hilton Professor of Business Ethics and director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University. White, the author of “In…
This spring, a new course, “Introduction to Virtual Worlds,” will be offered by the Department of Psychology and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Using the Internet-based virtual world Second Life as…
LMU Holiday Newsource This year’s holiday season comes wrapped in a shiny economic downturn with a red- hot recession on top. As retailers brace for a Dickensian sales season brought on by this year’s…
Verizon donated $50,000 to Loyola Marymount University’s literacy and reading intervention program, “The Bookworm Project.” Created by Judy Foy, a psychology professor, the program provides kindergarteners with intensive supplementary reading instruction in a fun…
Simple jumping exercises during one school year can cause increases in bone mineral density (BMD) for children, according to Hawley Almstedt, assistant professor of natural science at Loyola Marymount University. Almstedt and her team…
Attracting and educating research scientists is a tricky and expensive business, but Gary Kuleck, a biology professor at Loyola Marymount University, has found a way to make the job easier. Kuleck and his team…
The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (LCSLA) at Loyola Marymount University reported final results from its 2008 Presidential Election Exit Poll. More than 2,600 anonymous and self-administered surveys…