FROM THE PRESIDENT From Rogers Park to Rome
I ’D LIKE TO SHARE with you some of the many exciting things going on at Loyola, both on our campuses and through our programs around the world. In this issue, we take you from Sheridan Road to
Vietnam and back again. We’ll start in Rome, where much progress
is being made through the Insieme per il futuro campaign. We have a brilliant architectural team working on a number of projects at the John Felice Rome Center, including a new building, chapel, and mensa (see page 9 for more). There is development on the academic side in Rome as well. At the graduate level, our Prolaw program, which trains young lawyers from around the world in democracy and sustainability projects, got off the ground this year and is at capacity. On the other end of the academic spectrum, a cohort of European students are spending their freshman year at the JFRC, after which they will attend Loyola in Chicago for the remainder of their college careers. In another part of the world, a group of nurses
from Vietnam and Indonesia are taking e-learning courses at Loyola in order to become certified to train other nurses in their home countries, where nursing and medical education have not kept up with improvements in health conditions (see page 22). Our Executive Education department
is designing executive-style training for busi- ness professionals in Vietnam, and, of course, our Loyola students studying abroad in Vietnam continue to have great experiences. A three-year research project looking at where
the Church and various forms of democracy in- tersect is underway in Peru, Indonesia, Lithuania, and the United States (see page 24). After the culmination of this project this summer in Rome, we’ll start a related project in which we’ll invite people from Jesuit universities on different conti- nents to come together to talk about internation- al collaboration on environmental sustainability. Closer to home, over 1,000 Loyolans participat-
ed in this year’s Homecoming, which kicked off with a spirit-filled Midnight Madness celebrating a renaissance of Rambler athletics. In October, we hosted a conference on the theological ground- ing of the writer Flannery O’Connor at the Water Tower Campus. Over 60 papers were presented, and the conference will, we hope, result in a film for PBS about her life and her theological roots (see page 20). I hope you enjoy reading about our many and
varied endeavors. Whether in the classroom or on the quad, in Chicago or Vilnius, we remain com- mitted to discovery, growth, and service. Thank you for reading.
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. President and CEO
The vanishing
17 » Professor Elizabeth Coffman discusses her documentary film on the disappearing Louisiana coastline.
The Duck stops here
18 » Amy Le (BA ‘03) starts her own
business: a Chicago-based food truck.
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