Videos

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian poet, novelist, playwright and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. After giving the 2014 Loyola Marymount Graduate Commencement keynote speech, he addressed the ongoing crisis in Nigeria involving kidnapped schoolgirls.

Commencement Speaker | James Lovell is one of the most-heralded U.S. astronauts for his role as commander of Apollo 13, a space mission that turned near failure into an inspiring rescue. Lovell delivered the 2014 undergraduate commencement address and advised...

We placed several cameras at the 2014 commencement exercises to get a multi-angle perspective for our time-lapse video of the ceremony. Take a look.

What’s On Your Forehead?: Lent, the liturgical season of penance and reflection that leads to, begins each year with the imposition of ashes. We asked members of the LMU community to tell us what ashes, Ash Wednesday and Lent mean...

Catch the action from Homecoming 2014, from before-the-match excitement on Alumni Mall to Gersten game-time mania during the men’s basketball game.

Dana Gioia, acclaimed poet, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, were keynote speaker for this year’s Mission Day on Tuesday, January...

Philip Dugan ’58 says he learned the importance of giving to others from his Jesuit education. Watch and listen as he describes his work in Tenn., where he has built regional cancer treatment centers that shorten the distance his patients...

The Animator’s Creation: Johnny Bravo, now-famous star of a cartoon show of the same name, was born in the mind of a student in an LMU animation class. We talked with Van Partible ’93 during his cover photo shoot about...

Watch Chris Bigley ’09 and Chance Turkmany, son of Chris Turkmany ’87, take batting practice with LMU great and former major leaguer Billy Bean ’86. Chris and Chance were winners in our Bracket Madness contest to choose the favorite thing...

The LMU bluff still amazes prospective students. When we asked alumni to vote for their favorite thing about LMU in our Bracket Madness game, the bluff won hands down. Watch our video of this spectacular geologic feature for a view...

From Behind the Plate | Colton Plaia ’13, star catcher for the LMU baseball team, was named the 2013 West Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year. In his senior season, he led all WCC catchers throwing out base runners...

Commencement 2013 | Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the connection she sees between storytelling and the work of a historian. Watch her undergraduate commencement address as she traces her historian’s path from recapping Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games for her father...