Loyola Magazine

I was Homeless but not Hopeless

I was Homeless but not Hopeless

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 2:39 pm under Around Campus

This is an excerpt of the remarks Christopher Roque Mateo, ’19, delivered at the 2018 Business Leader of the Year event, where Thomas Bozzuto of The Bozzuto Group was honored. Imagine being born into one of the poorest cities in America, where abandoned homes—stretching blocks—are the norm; individuals experiencing homeless and hardship, crime, and trauma […]

President’s Message: Building Community Beyond Campus

President’s Message: Building Community Beyond Campus

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 2:38 pm under From the President

During Baltimore’s last major snowstorm, cars parked along Cold Spring Lane were buried under the snow. Several of our students bundled up and came out to shovel out the vehicles, even though they didn’t know the cars’ owners. It was a beautiful, generous gesture, and I was proud to see our students recognizing a need and stepping up to help without being […]

What’s new in innovation and entrepreneurship at Loyola?

What’s new in innovation and entrepreneurship at Loyola?

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 2:37 pm under Academics

With the launch of Loyola’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CI&E), the University is expanding the innovation that has already been underway on campus. “We want to give students the tools and practice to become change agents. Innovation is a strategy to solve problems in order to better the lives of people across the city, […]

An Eye on the Future

An Eye on the Future

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 9:41 am under Academics

As a high school student growing up just outside Baltimore, Jim Forbes, ’80, knew Loyola as a small school with a ﬁne academic reputation. He came to Loyola, graduated with a degree in business administration, and started his career in ﬁnance in New York City. Now Vice Chairman for UBS Group Americas, Forbes and his […]

Overcoming adversity in Baltimore, one painted door at a time

Overcoming adversity in Baltimore, one painted door at a time

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 9:36 am under Academics

A gallon of white paint spills on the ﬂoor, and students race to clean it up. The students are busy creating windows and doors to spruce up abandoned homes in Baltimore’s Harwood neighborhood. They don’t want to lose the paint they will need to complete the project; luckily, they manage to salvage most of it. […]

Northern Lights on Northern Radio Waves

Northern Lights on Northern Radio Waves

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 9:35 am under Alumni

The idea of moving across the country to accept a volunteer fellowship at KNOM Radio in Nome, Alaska, was daunting. “It was Alaska, after all—so far away and dark and freezing cold and unknown,” said Katie Kazmierski, ’18. She found herself turning to Loyola’s Jesuit values for inspiration to face her fears. “Loyola taught me […]

Broadcasting service through Baltimore

Broadcasting service through Baltimore

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 9:35 am under Alumni

Late every August, students who are involved in WLOY travel into downtown Baltimore to help run the People’s Barbecue for the Homeless, held near St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. The People’s Barbecue for the Homeless is an annual event co-founded by WLOY and supported by more than 25 organizations from around the city, including […]

Making Haiti a better place one smile at a time

Making Haiti a better place one smile at a time

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 9:33 am under Alumni

Meet three dentists: Barry Murphy, ’72, DDS, James Taneyhill, ’69, DDS, and Lew Libby, ’72, DDS, who are Loyola alumni and travel to Haiti two to three times a year to provide dental care to Haitian school children. “The qualifications for the trip are, you must have good clinical skills, be easy company, and a […]

Apprentice House Press offers real-world experience in publishing industry

Apprentice House Press offers real-world experience in publishing industry

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 at 10:54 am under Academics

Karl Dehmelt, ’18, already had a 100,000-word novel well underway when he landed at Loyola University Maryland as a freshman in 2014. A fictionalized account of events surrounding the trauma and loss his family endured during his mother’s battle with terminal cancer, the manuscript had consumed more than a year of the young Pennsylvanian’s life. […]

Restoring Faith in Policing

Restoring Faith in Policing

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 at 1:30 pm under Alumni

Police officers see people at their worst. Kevin Dowling, ’90, Ed.D., knows. He has spent most of his professional life in law enforcement, both as an officer and educator. “What always strikes me about those employed in emergency services is their humanity,” said Dowling, 50. “These are the people who run toward gunfire. If you […]

Learn, Lead, Serve, and Educate

Learn, Lead, Serve, and Educate

Posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 1:06 pm under Alumni

The mark of a Loyola University Maryland education is how graduates share their education with others. For the dozens of Loyola alumni in the Jesuit Schools Network—the network of North American Jesuit secondary and presecondary schools—that means providing the gift of a Jesuit education to new generations of students. Loyola magazine reached out to a […]

Black History Month Reflections from Fr. Brown: Green Book

Black History Month Reflections from Fr. Brown: Green Book

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 at 9:25 pm under

Green Book won the Academy award for Best Picture this year. To appreciate the history of the Green Book, it is worth reading the transcript excerpted here from the landmark Supreme Court case Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 1964. The New York Times editorial gives us the context for the decision and the […]

Black History Month Reflections from Fr. Brown: Knowing Christ Crucified

Black History Month Reflections from Fr. Brown: Knowing Christ Crucified

Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2019 at 3:48 pm under

Knowing Christ Crucified—The Witness of African American Religious Experience by M. Shawn Copeland is a stunning account of African American spiritual history. I recommend it. Reading this extraordinary book of essays became, for me, a contemplative prayer experience. I began to follow this slave history as I would follow the Stations of the Cross. By […]

Message in a bottle thrown to sea creates lifelong bond to Loyola

Message in a bottle thrown to sea creates lifelong bond to Loyola

Posted on Friday, February 22nd, 2019 at 10:26 am under Beyond Loyola

In 2016, David Folley, a French artist, was walking on the beach with his two sons on Tariec Island near Landéda, in northwestern France, when he found a green glass bottle that had washed ashore during high tide. Folley, who creates art pieces with the treasures he finds on the beach, opened the bottle to […]

Combining service and entrepreneurship

Combining service and entrepreneurship

Posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2019 at 1:30 pm under

Bill Romani, Ph.D., started his career as a physical therapist at Cornell University, where he earned his master’s degree in Health Policy Administration. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Romani, who is originally from Ithaca, N.Y., moved to Baltimore in 1998 and joined the faculty at the University of […]