If the San Fernando Valley has been disparaged by many, including Angelenos, then its art has been even less regarded.
Joseph Wakelee-Lynch
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A Conversation With Joseph Reichenberger
Joseph Reichenberger, a professor of civil engineering in the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering, specializes in water quality management and wastewater treatment system design. He has worked and consulted extensively on local water issues and policy. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, he served as vice president and regional manager for Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. in Pasadena. Reichenberger also serves as a director of the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and formerly was a commissioner on the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority. Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch interviewed him about the current statewide drought.
A Conversation With Caroline Sauvage
Caroline Sauvage is an assistant professor of classics and archaeology in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She received her B.A. in art history and archaeology as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology of the Ancient World from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research interests include trade and maritime exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as the development and use of textile tools during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Her research focuses on exchanges, the status of objects, and their representations and use as identity markers across the eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of “Routes maritimes et Systèmes D’échanges Internationaux au Bronze Récent en Méditerranée Orientale” (2012). Sauvage was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
Regular Exorcise With William Friedkin
Academy Award-winner William Friedkin has directed several seminal films, including “The Exorcist,” “To Live and Die in L.A.” and “The French Connection.” Friedkin spoke on campus in late March as part of the School of Film and Television’s “The Hollywood Masters” series. Vanessa Newell, associate professor of film production in SFTV, spoke to him about his work and the film industry.
“Frozen” Gives Lions A Shot at Oscar Credit
If Disney’s “Frozen” takes the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, one of its two nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, a few SFTV alumni will deserve some of the “cold” credit.
Shouldering the Mantle
When I was growing up in a mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood of Philadelphia, my best friend and I practiced saying Mass in his basement. We not only imagined ourselves as priests, we talked about someday becoming saints. My calling to…
Operation Huck Finn
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is both a simple and profound story of a journey: The novel depicts Huck and Jim’s rafting trip down the Mississippi River, and Huck’s journey into self-understanding as well. In 1959, six Loyola undergraduates decided to re-create Huck’s fictional journey. This is their story.—The Editor.
You can see a slide show of images from the Mississippi journey of Loyola students in August 1959 here.
Lisa Taylor ’11 Rocks Her Physics Classroom
Lisa Taylor ’11 teaches physics to students at Huntington Beach High School and loves it.
Seamus Heaney, Rest in Peace with Your Father and His Fathers
One of the great Irish singers died today. Seamus Heaney passed away today in Dublin at the age of 74. Heaney was one of the world’s great poets, of course, and a winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995. He…