Dear LMU Community,
I’m pleased to invite you all to the 14th Annual LMU Undergraduate Research Symposium this Saturday, March 19th from 10am-4pm on Alumni Mall and in St. Robert’s Hall on LMU’s main campus. For over a decade, this event has been a campus-wide tradition celebrating the very best in faculty-mentored undergraduate research and creative projects at LMU. Please feel free to invite colleagues, friends, and others from the community to hear your students’ presentations.
For more information or the program of the event, please visit our website at www.lmu.edu/symposium. All external guests are also asked to register here in receive a campus-access placard and link to the LMU Lion Health check required for guest campus access.
This year’s Symposium returns in-person as a celebration not only of student research and the fantastic faculty-student partnerships that have come to define an LMU education, but also of the resilience and commitment of the many people that make up the LMU community. After two years of fantastic virtual Symposiums, we come back together on our beautiful campus to celebrate a LMU tradition that never stopped, or even paused: Loyola Marymount’s unwavering commitment to academic excellence both inside and outside of the classroom. To this end, please engage with the over 110 posters lined up and down Alumni Mall, listen to and participate in the more than 85 oral presentations, panels, and arts showcase presentations in St. Robert’s Hall, and share a meal or some coffee with friends, family, and fellow presenters on St. Robert’s Grass.
We are pleased to feature student work from all five undergraduate colleges and schools. The diverse presentations will be intellectually stimulating for all. Among these sessions, students wrestle with complex issues, including changing perceptions of climate change depending on generation, media and the need for free speech, and the history of the California Justice System. They explore issues of domestic and foreign policy, benefits of dance for senior citizens, and concepts of gender and sexuality in the media. Finally, student discussions range from the connection between migration and trauma, risk preferences in the wake of COVID-19, attachment styles and responses to relationships, a smart menstrual cup initiative, and the characterization of black holes.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium provides an excellent opportunity for students, faculty, staff, parents, and members of the LMU community to actively engage with students who have been immersed in thought-provoking questions and global issues. In an increasingly complex world, it is important for students to take learning to a deeper and more integrated level. The work showcased today is evidence of this learning process.
Again, thank you for your tremendous support! I look forward to seeing some of you at the Symposium next weekend.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Wimberly-Young, M.F.A.
Associate Director, Office of Research & Creative Arts
