Features

Shelves of Selves

To Lynell George ’84, every book on her shelves is a window into who she was, is and will become. How to live when a treasured one goes missing?

Manual

Carve a Turkey

Carving the family Thanksgiving turkey is no amateur’s task. So, we went to an expert for advice: Amy Caton Polverini ’04, a surgeon with professional scalpel skills.

Conversations

A Conversation With Abby Wambach

Abby Wambach, who delivered the Commencement address at the 2022 Commencement Exercises, talks about Title IX, equal pay for women and misogyny.

Conversations

A Conversation With Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland was the first Black female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. She talks about her experience and struggles while breaking new ground.

Features

Big City Oil

Oil used to be big in Los Angeles. In fact, it still is, and the industry’s impact on the region’s populations is far from equitable.

Features

Disconnected

When the COVID-19 epidemic came to Yolo County, the disconnection between farmworkers and local government became its own health threat. Antonio De Loera-Brust ’17 describes what he witnessed.

Features

A Well-Aimed Rock

Blake Pickens MBA ’19, a Chickasaw film producer and stand-up comedian, uses film and jokes to change people’s minds about Native Americans and people in poverty.

The Full Story

LMU’s Inclusive History and Image Project will fill out the university’s past and shape its future.

Civics 101

Up in Arms

Evan Gerstmann, who teaches constitutional law, explains the origins of the Second Amendment and how its intent has been interpreted over time.

Letter From L.A.

Textbook Ethics

If you found your father’s 1929 Jesuit college textbook titled “Special Ethics” with his handwritten notes inside, would you recognize the man who raised you?

Conversations

A Conversation With Cristi Hegranes ’03

Cristi Hegranes ’15, who founded the Global Press Institute, talks about training women journalists around the world and the dangers they face by telling their stories.

Letter Milwaukee

Wisconsin Votes

Wisconsin again was a battleground state in the 2022 mid-term elections. Matt Brusky ’92, who works on voters’ issues in Milwaukee, says his political science courses have served him well.

Features

To Forgive Or Not

Perhaps no one has told a more moving tale of sin, forgiveness and absolution than the great “Catholic agnostic” novelist, Graham Greene. James T. Keane ’96 looks at the mystery of absolution.

Sports

Title IX at 50

Title IX changed the landscape of university athletics. LMU women who have played, coached or worked in sports administration tell us how a federal civil rights law has shaped their lives.

Object Lesson

The Kicks

Sneakers, for some of us, are an identity statement. Exclusive one are collectors’ items. To London James ’13, they are wondrous works of ceramic art.

My Take

Tar on the Wall

Thirty years after dropping out, Nina Louise M.A. ’20 returned to the classroom. But books accompanied her all the way to her Ph.D. program in Hawaii.

Features

AI — Fear Or Friend It?

AI — artificial intelligence — is not coming, it’s here, there and everywhere. Two law experts tell us where it may be going next, and why that worries them.

Love Story

Alone Together

Their relationship deepened so much while being apart that Jo Blankenship ’16 and Cassidy Brown ’21 wondered if it could survive while being together.

Conversations

A Conversation With Jonas Mureika

Jonas Mureika studies quantum physics — matter and energy at the level of atoms an subatomic particles. We don’t yet understand it, but he and others are in search of the “Holy Grail of physics.” Mureika talks about his quest.

The Pride

The Pride: Angelina Thomas ’15

In this new LMU Magazine department, The Pride, Angelina Thomas ’15 the path and networks that helped make her way in the working world.

News

Seaver’s Half Century

Seaver College celebrates 50 years of service to science and society.

Sports

The WCC Roadmap

Here’s your guide to the WCC opponents who will go head-to-head for conference honors with this season’s men’s basketball team.

Alumni

100 Years of Fitting Print

The Loyolan’s first issue, published in 1923, included a story of a student who accidentally shot himself in the jaw. The paper has been a must-read ever since.

Features

Moneyball

Name, image and likeness issues — and the money and deals involved — may reshuffle college athletics as thoroughly as Title IX. Here’s a look at a new competitive landscape.

Conversations

A Conversation With Madhu Viswanathan

Madhu Viswanathan, profess of marketing, says his Business for Good program challenges his entrepreneurial students to think about the needs of low-income, low-literacy consumers.

Sports

Aarika Hughes’ WCC Preview

Heading into her second season, Coach Aarika Hughes says her women’s basketball team will focus on defense and increase the tempo.

The Giveback

Beyond the Bluff

The LMU leadership team, including President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., is going on the road to bring alumni, parents, friends and donors across the country into closer dialogue with the university.

The Giveback

The Proof of Friendship

A friendship forged in the LMU Loyola Law School library led to a remarkable act of generosity.

The Giveback

Seaver College To Be Home to Aerospace Propulsion Laboratory

A gift from Tom Mueller M.S. ’92, founder of ImpulseSpace, will establish the Mueller Aerospace Propulsion Laboratory in the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering.

The Giveback