August 13, 2022     |      PDT

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From Laker Girl to Presidential Appointee – An Alumna Reflects on her LMU Experience

Lee Avila ’81 was among the first in her family to graduate from college. She has served under three presidential administrations. She was also one of the original Laker Girls – the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles basketball team. All this, and more, she credits to her experience as a student at Loyola Marymount University. That’s why she has pledged a $400,000 bequest to create an endowment for the Gonzalez Family Scholarship, which will support generations of Latina students at LMU.

A Matching Challenge Gift Celebrates 20 Years of Student Investment Fund

When Robert Lu ’03 proposed a matching gift challenge of $100,000 in support of the Student Investment Fund (SIF) at the LMU College of Business Administration (CBA), the challenge was met by former CBA Dean John Wholihan, Ph.D., who inaugurated the SIF two decades ago. The fund gives CBA students the chance to gain practical experience of investing, and now that opportunity will be opened to students from across the university.

LMU Alumni Unite to Create the Brandon Farmer Memorial Scholarship

Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity have joined together to mark the memory of their fraternity brother who passed shortly after graduating from LMU in 2011. The cohort of brothers have committed a total of $30,000 to the scholarship intended to support a student who will play an active role in The Learning Community (TLC) – a program that was central to Brandon Farmer’s years at LMU.  

LMU Wins First Place in Deloitte Audit Innovation Challenge

An interdisciplinary team from LMU won first place in the 2021-2022 Deloitte Audit Innovation Campus Challenge, an annual competition where student teams demonstrate how innovative ideas and cutting-edge technologies could be applied to a…