Thirty years ago, Philippa Drennan joined her colleague John Waggoner in a study of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert. His initial research that concerned the distribution of Joshua trees within a range of altitudes in the remote desert became long-term monitoring of new growth and flowering of specific trees. Changes in climate and environment have...
Read MoreDana Gioia’s words have started arguments. His 1991 article, “Can Poetry Matter?”, sparked a...
Read MoreSouth Sudan’s independence in July 2011 was a moment of great hope in Africa. It followed an overwhelmingly popular referendum vote and seemed to promise an end to decades-long violence. Jok Madut Jok, LMU professor of history who was born in the village of Marol, has helped establish schools in Marol, written books about Sudan and...
Read MoreMelissa Blake ’95 says she chose to attend LMU partly because of its screenwriting...
Read MoreGoogling oneself is an exercise of quiet narcissism that many of us indulge in, I suspect. Google “Welsh Jesuit” — something I do occasionally — and there appears an engraving of a man with gaunt features and an enigmatic expression. Less ambiguous is the rope around his neck and the large knife sticking out of his...
Read MoreAna Ponce is chief executive officer of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles....
Read MoreEvery September, LMU gym rats congregate in Gersten Pavilion for a very serious basketball...
Read MoreThe woodcut illustration is from a volume of Chaucer’s works published in London in...
Read MoreAngela James, trained as a sociologist and demographer, is an associate professor of African...
Read MoreWhen Roger Crawford got the finger on his right hand stuck in a tennis racket, he realized he could play the game. He has a condition called ectrodactylism, the absence of fingers or toes.
Read MorePaul Salamunovich passed away on April 3, 2014. He was professor of music and...
Read MoreVictoria Graf, professor in the School of Education, is the former director of SOE’s...
Read MoreWhen I graduated, I left LMU with a triple major and no idea what...
Read MoreA flight east from Los Angeles will usually cross, miles above at a cool...
Read MoreDuring LMU’s centennial celebrations of 2011, Steve Brutocao ’86, owner and CEO of Brutocao...
Read MoreLesley Leighton ’84, who is a graduate of Westchester High School as well as...
Read MoreAcademy Award-winner William Friedkin has directed several seminal films, including “The Exorcist,” “To Live...
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