Biochemistry Senior to Train as NIH Researcher
When Mary Soliman ’22 entered Loyola Marymount University, research wasn’t part of the plan. “I was going to get my bachelor’s in biochemistry and then go to medical school and become a physician,” she…
After Senior-Year Experience, Biology Major Eyes Career in Research
It’s been less than a year since Madeleine King embarked on her first research experience, but that’s long enough for King, who graduated in May from the Loyola Marymount University, to know she’s found…
Vatican Observatory Director Explains Why Faith and Science Can — and Must — Coexist
Guy Consolmagno, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory and president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has described the mission of the observatory as, in part, convincing the world that faith and science coexist and…
Heather Tarleton, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Begins Term
Heather Tarleton, Ph.D., started her term as the inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion for the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in January 2021. “Seaver…
UNESCO Program Selects LMU Student to Lead Team Studying COVID-19
When something interests Lianlen Joy Go Distor, she calls it “sparkly.” And when the Loyola Marymount University junior learned she had been chosen out of a pool of more than 6,000 applicants from 128…
Interdisciplinary Innovation Key to Improving Health Care System
There’s much that works with our current health care system, but a lot that needs improvement. And according to Loyola Marymount University alumnus Stephen Speicher, the thing that’s going to improve the current system…
Senior’s NASA Internship Results in Published Paper
If there is one thing Loyola Marymount University chemistry major John Colin Richards learned from his summer 2019 internship in a NASA-sponsored program, it is that science in the real world is extremely difficult…
