Michele Frawley ’01 says issues about long-term care and health are why Veteran’s Smile Day was organized in the first place: to bring another element of veterans’ health care to the attention of society’s leaders and lawmakers.
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M-School’s Jackets for Homeless People
In August, students in the M-School’s New World Branding and Advertising class received their assignment: identify a problem within the community and execute a creative solution. Baker, Wudrick, Truong and Velasquez created Seco Jackets — a campaign to keep L.A.’s homeless dry.
Europe’s Lessons of History
Europe has taken center stage in the eyes of much of the world in recent months as it deals with refugees and migrants. But its past may be just as useful for lessons about political and economic turmoil there and in the United States today. We spoke about the lessons of history with Professor Elizabeth Drummond, associate professor of modern Central European history in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
LMU and World Policy Institute Launch Joint Project
When four former U.S. ambassadors convene on campus Feb. 9 to discuss American foreign policy and the 2016 election, their visit will mark the first step in a landmark collaboration established this past year between LMU and the World Policy Institute.
The Faces of Social Justice
Latino painter Salvador Barajas discusses his mural created for the School of Education.
Philippine President Receives Honorary Degree
Loyola Marymount University welcomed a head of state to campus on Feb. 17 when Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D.
Shackled While Pregnant
It sounds like something from the Middle Ages or the Salem witch trials: Incarcerated women being shackled during labor and childbirth to keep them from fleeing. But the practice does not exist in the distant past.
Spring Break Immersion in the Dominican Republic
For a group of LMU students, spring break 2016 was spent speaking with migrant workers forced to cross a border and leave the only place most have ever known as home. In this case, the border was that between the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which those nations share, not the border between the United States and Mexico.
Party Control
Richard Fox, professor of political science in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, teaches and researches courses on the U.S. Congress, elections, media and politics, and gender politics. He has published in professional journals including the American Journal of Political Science, and has written op-eds for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
Beach-Bluff Synergy
“At LMU, we are more than located in the heart of Silicon Beach,” Snyder said. “We are the university of Silicon Beach.”