INSIDE LOYOLA NEWS FOR FACULTY AND STAFF · APRIL 2011 GET YOUR DAILY NEWS AND TOOLS AT LUC.EDU/ INSIDELOYOLA The Feed The fourth annual North Lake Shore Earth Day celebration will be held on Saturday, April 16 at the Lake Shore Campus. Loyola is again teaming up with north side organizations and activists this year to teach Chicagoans about “Saving Green Together.” This free, all-day event is part of Loyola’s Weekend of Excellence and will feature workshops, art proj- ects, and interactive programs for adults and children. » LUC.edu/earthday Rambler Bucks (RBux) can now be used at select off- campus restaurants, giving students, faculty, and staff enhanced meal choices. So far, four restaurants near the Lake Shore Campus are currently accepting RBux: Five Guys, Metropolis Coffee, Shabuka Indian Grill, and Subway. Pete’s Pizza and Red Mango, two new businesses that will be opening soon under The Morgan, have also agreed to accept RBux. Use Rambler Bucks at restaurants Community- based Earth Day event at LSC O n March 3, the new Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics opened its doors for business following a spirited ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony attended by several hundred mem- bers of the Loyola community, includ- ing Father Garanzini, student develop- ment vice president Robert Kelly, PhD, new athletics director M. Grace Cal- houn, a number of student-athletes, and of course Allan and Alfie Norville and many of their guests. The highly anticipated three-story facility, named in honor of former Loyola basketball star and current Board of Trustee member Allan Nor- ville, along with his wife Alfie, offers a number of modern amenities crucial to the success of a university athlet- ics program, including an improved strength and conditioning center, a sports medicine facility, a student- athlete academic center, spacious locker rooms, student-athlete meeting and activity spaces, and administrative offices for athletics personnel. The new Norville Center is only the beginning of progress at Loyola. This step is the first in the University’s reimagine campaign, a five-phase plan to enhance student life. The next phase of the campaign includes access to arena seating at the newly renamed Gentile Arena (completed fall 2011). » LUC.edu/reimagine Norville opens to rave reviews Allan and Alfie Norville chat with student-athletes at the opening of the Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics. “I believe our glory days are really still ahead of us. Today, Alfie and I couldn’t be more pleased to lend our name to this exciting new facility.” —ALLAN NORVILLE (BS ’60) Say goodbye to Alumni Gym After nearly 90 years of service to Loyola and the wider community, Alumni Gym will close its doors in May 2011 to make way for a new state-of-the-art student union. Admirers of the “big brown box that rocks” will have one final opportunity to say goodbye to this storied structure on Saturday, May 7. » LUC.edu/alumnigym State-of-the-art workout facility CHECK THE FEED DAILY » LUC.edu/insideloyola WEEKEND OF EXCELLENCE
Transcript
INSIDE LOYOLAN E W S F O R F A C U L T Y A N D S T A F F A P R I L 2 0 1 1
GET YOUR DAILY NEWS AND TOOLS
AT LUCEDUINSIDELOYOLA
The Feed
The fourth annual North Lake Shore earth Day celebration will be held on Saturday April 16 at the Lake Shore Campus Loyola is again teaming up with north side organizations and activists this year to teach Chicagoans about ldquoSaving Green Togetherrdquo This free all-day event is part of Loyolarsquos Weekend of excellence and will feature workshops art proj-ects and interactive programs for adults and children
raquo LUCeduearthday
Rambler Bucks (RBux) can now be used at select off-campus restaurants giving students faculty and staff enhanced meal choices So far four restaurants near the Lake Shore Campus are currently accepting RBux Five Guys Metropolis Coffee Shabuka Indian Grill and Subway Petersquos Pizza and Red Mango two new businesses that will be opening soon under The Morgan have also agreed to accept RBux
Use Rambler Bucks at restaurants
Community-based Earth Day event at LSC
On March 3 the new Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics opened its doors for
business following a spirited ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony attended by several hundred mem-bers of the Loyola community includ-ing Father Garanzini student develop-ment vice president Robert Kelly PhD new athletics director M Grace Cal-houn a number of student-athletes and of course Allan and Alfie Norville and many of their guests
The highly anticipated three-story facility named in honor of former Loyola basketball star and current Board of Trustee member Allan Nor-ville along with his wife Alfie offers a number of modern amenities crucial to the success of a university athlet-ics program including an improved strength and conditioning center a sports medicine facility a student-athlete academic center spacious locker rooms student-athlete meeting and activity spaces and administrative offices for athletics personnel
The new Norville Center is only the beginning of progress at Loyola This step is the first in the Universityrsquos reimagine campaign a five-phase plan to enhance student life The next phase of the campaign includes access to arena seating at the newly renamed Gentile Arena (completed fall 2011)
raquo LUCedureimagine
norville opens to rave reviewsAllan and Alfie Norville chat with student-athletes at the opening of the Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics
ldquoI believe our glory days are really still ahead of us Today Alfie and I couldnrsquot be more pleased to lend our name to this exciting new facilityrdquo
mdashA L L A N N O R V I L L e ( B S rsquo6 0 )
Say goodbye to Alumni GymAfter nearly 90 years of service to Loyola and the wider community Alumni Gym will close its doors in May 2011 to make way for a new state-of-the-art student union Admirers of the ldquobig brown box that rocksrdquo will have one final opportunity to say goodbye to this storied structure on Saturday May 7 raquo LUCedualumnigym
State-of-the-art workout facilityCHECK THE FEED DAILYraquo LUCeduinsideloyola
weeKend OfeXCeLLenCe
On March 4 Loyola University Chicago and Trinity Health (Novi Mich) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) that could lead to the consolidation of Trinity Health and the Loyola University Health System (LUHS) The LOI provides a framework for the partnership and kicked off the formal process of creating the operating model for consolidating the two orga-nizations
As part of the agreement Loyola University Chicago would maintain ownership of both the Stritch School of Medicine and the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
raquo LUCeduloi
Former Chicago police officer and current criminal justice professor Robert Lombardo thinks the best way to get studentsrsquo attention in the
classroom is to engage them And that is exactly what hersquos done with his criminal justice course focused on gang activity and control
The course a first of its kind at Loyola requires students to divide into groups and write a paper on one specific gang Students are provided with a lab day each Friday where they work on a paper a 50-page report that includes five sectionsmdasha history of the gang the gangrsquos current activities theoretical explanations pictures and videos and interviews of members
The classrsquos unique angle comes from Lombardorsquos partnership with the Metro-politan Area Group for Igniting Civiliza-tion (MAGIC) Teen Reach program at the University of Chicago an after-school program serving youth from some of Chicagorsquos most severely under-resourced neighborhoods Through MAGIC students are given access to interview both current and former gang members
ldquoI teach this class because I want to bring more awareness of the problems that gang members face every dayrdquo says Lombardo ldquoThis class brings a different perspective to students on gang mem-bers their lifestyle and how andor why theoretically individuals in these neigh-borhoods become gang members as many donrsquot see any other options for themselvesrdquo
On March 1 Loyola celebrated its first-ever Wolf and Kettle Day a strategic outreach program to inform students about how donors positively impact their educational experiences
According to Stephanie Tomakowski the annual giving officer who worked to put together Wolf and Kettle Day the event was a great success What surprised many stu-dents who stopped by the booths in CFSU and the Terry Student Center was the fact that only 71 percent of their tuition is actu-ally covered by what they pay The other 29
percent is provided by donors Driving home the message the festivities were held on March 1 which actually represents the day in which each studentrsquos tuition money runs out and donor money takes over financing their education each academic year
In addition to learning about our gener-ous donors students received free bags of kettle corn and coupons to use at a number of different businesses on both campuses
raquo LUCeduwolf+kettle
While itrsquos true that women accomplish great things every day March is the month of the year when we give special recognition to their many wonderful accomplishments And during the Ann F Baum Women and Leadership Speaker Series on March 24 in the Mundelein Center Auditorium four spectacular alderwomen were honored for their many years of public service
The special subtitle for this yearrsquos meet-ing ldquoAll Politics is Local Public Service for the Common Goodrdquo was chosen specifi-cally because of the amazing coincidence
that the four alderwomen were retiring from City Council all in the same year ldquoThey are phenomenal models of the importance of public servicerdquo says Janet Sisler the director of the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership
The day of the event also marked the formal opening of the Mary Ann Smith Collection a group of her personal and political civic papers that are now open to the public for research They are available in the Gannon Centerrsquos Women and Leadership archives
Loyola Trinity Health sign LOI
Criminal justice course takes to the streets
Student volunteers at Wolf and Kettle Day talk to their fellow students about the importance of donors and giving back
Students celebrate generosityldquoI saw a lot of that wide-eyed open-mouthed response Students would say lsquoAre you kidding So the school year would end today if it werenrsquot for donorsrsquordquo
mdash S T e P H A N I e
T O M A K O W S K I
Public service for the common goodTHe fOUR aLdeRwOmen HOnORed (pictured left to right)
Vi DaleyndashLincoln Park 43rd Ward
Virginia ldquoGingerrdquo RugaindashBeverly 19th Ward (unable to attend event)
Helen ShillerndashUptown 46th Ward
Mary Ann SmithndashEdgewater 48th Ward
Recently rec-ognized with a National Science Foundation CAReeR award Jacob Ciszek Phd an assistant professor of
chemistry research is in the middle of an important study on Photochro-mic (Switching) Molecular Adsor-bates The study examines molecular photochromophores (switches) on surfaces and more specifically the study analyzes whether we can con-trol the surface properties of a metal via external stimulimdashindirectly Photochromic lenses which are clear indoors and darken automatically in response to sunlight outdoors are a similar example of this technology applied What is different about Cis-zekrsquos research is that his study looks at controlling electronic surfaces
Two years into the research with two published articles the study is ongoing Ciszek and his current research group which consists of three graduate and six undergradu-ate students hope that the ongoing research which will include at least seven to ten more studies and arti-cles informs the public and ignites more research and discussion within the science community
raquo homepageslucedu~jciszek
ReSeaRCH SPOTLIGHT
Prof earns nSf CaReeR award
PROfILe
M Grace CalhounLoyolarsquos New Director of Athletics
After a nationwide search Indiana University Associate Athletic Director M Grace Calhoun PhD has been named
the Director of Athletics at Loyola At Indiana Calhoun worked to improve academic and student achievement She
served on numerous NCAA and Big Ten committees and in 2009 she was presented with the NACWAA Nell Jackson
Administrator of the Year Award
bull bull bull what attracted you to Loyola Thatrsquos an easy one I have long known about Loyola and Irsquove admired from afar what the University has done to educate its students That was the key attraction When I got to campus meeting people and seeing the excitement and pride that they all took in working with students and ensuring their development it did nothing but confirm what I knew about the Jesuit style of education Beyond that I felt a strong sense that the athletics program can be more successful in the future with the proper energy and commit-ment and attention and I really felt those commitments from Father Garanzini and Rob Kelly [VP of Stu-dent Development]
bull bull bull at Indiana you were the associ-ate athletic director for aca-demic and Student engagement How will you bring those skills and experiences to Loyola First of all working directly with student-athletes on their overall development nicely translates into Loyolarsquos mission I care very much about the educational value of the sport and ensuring that athletics are an important co-curricular activity not just for the student-athletes but for the whole student
community I also bring knowledge of how to partner with the campus so that the athletics department is suc-cessful and that the campus benefits as well Itrsquos really bringing that two-way partnership Third I have plenty of experience raising the visibility of athletics programs and I plan to use that experience to engage not only the Loyola community but to work toward increased visibility in the Chicago area Irsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athlet-ics programs back to the national stage and to become more competitive
bull bull bull How do you see Loyola as fitting into Chicago Loyolarsquos plan is to become the premier undergraduate experience in Chicago I feel that enhancing the
athletics goes hand-in-hand with that goal We need to continue to make investments in facilities and staff to better support the student-athletes The existing high-quality educational experience and a really progressive student-athlete experi-ence in tandem create that unique niche for Loyola that other schools arenrsquot occupying Wersquoll create a stronger internal program and then go out and work with alums and the community to get that vis-ibility out there to encourage them to further support it Thatrsquos how we do something special and get Chi-cago to take notice
611
2011 fOUndeRSrsquo dInneR
LSC
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Loyolarsquos Foundersrsquo Dinner The event benefits the presidential schol-arship fund and will be held on the Lake Shore Campus For a chance to win two free tickets RSVP now
RSVP raquo 8002569652 or LUCedufounders
Events
LAKE SHORE
412
THIS I BELIEVE PaneL
530ndash630 pm bull Simpson Multipurpose Room
Join fellow faculty staff and students in a panel discussion of this yearrsquos common reading This I Believe The program is an opportunity to discuss shared values beliefs and motiva-tions engage in great discus-sion and enjoy a free meal
raquo mike mcKeon mmckeon1lucedu
WATER TOWER
414
LIBRaRY SPeaKeR SeRIeSmdashSCOTT STanTIS
6ndash8 pm bull Regents Hall 16th Floor Lewis Towers
Scott Stantis politi-cal cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune is the featured guest of this monthrsquos Library Speaker Series Join him as he discusses ldquoWhatrsquos Hap-pening in Chicagorsquos Politicsrdquo
raquo Cathy miesse cmiesselucedu
415ndash17
weeKend Of eXCeLLenCe
WTC and LSC
This weekend-long celebration will feature the schol-arly and civic work of our students and allow them
the opportunity to share it with the Loyola community family friends and neighbors The festivities kick off April 15 and a number of events and performances are scheduled throughout the weekend
raquo LUCeduexcellenceweekend
ldquoIrsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athletics programs back to the national stagerdquo
weeKend OfeXCeLLenCe
SAVE
THE
DATESAVE
820 N Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60611
Pre-SortedNon Profit Org
US PostagePaId
Permit No 5539Chicago IL
Inside Loyola is published by Loyola University Chicago Division of University Marketing and Communication 820 N Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 It is published the first week of the fall semester and the first Tuesday of each month from September through May (excluding January) and is posted on its Loyola website by 5 pm the Friday after the day of publication
VP University marketing and Communication
Kelly Shannon
director of Communication Maeve Kiley
Photography Mark Beane
Contributors Annie Busiek Tammy Chase Steve Christensen
Commencement 2011Loyolarsquos 141st annual Commencement will be May 12ndash14 and May 21 on the Lake Shore Campus This year the University has again gathered an impressive array of speakers for its ceremonies including John McDonough president of the Chicago Blackhawks who will speak to the graduates of the School of Communication Stritch School of Medicine speaker Bryan A Stevenson founder and executive director of the equal Justice Initiative and social work speaker Monsignor Michael Boland administrator president and CeO of Catholic Charities raquo LUCeducommencement
512
Graduate School and Institute of Pastoral Studies
Noon bull Gentile Arena Speaker Margaret Daniels Tyler
School of education
4 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Terry Mazany
College of arts and Sciences Honors Convocation
8 pm bull Gentile Arena
513
College of arts and Sciences (arts)
10 am bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Jian Ping
Baccalaureate mass
1230 pm bull Gentile Arena
College of arts and Sciences (Sciences)
4 pm bull Gentile ArenaSpeaker Thomas J Dart
School of Communication
7 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker John McDonough
Noon bull Navy Pier Grand Ballroom bull Speaker Bryan A Stevenson
On March 4 Loyola University Chicago and Trinity Health (Novi Mich) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) that could lead to the consolidation of Trinity Health and the Loyola University Health System (LUHS) The LOI provides a framework for the partnership and kicked off the formal process of creating the operating model for consolidating the two orga-nizations
As part of the agreement Loyola University Chicago would maintain ownership of both the Stritch School of Medicine and the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
raquo LUCeduloi
Former Chicago police officer and current criminal justice professor Robert Lombardo thinks the best way to get studentsrsquo attention in the
classroom is to engage them And that is exactly what hersquos done with his criminal justice course focused on gang activity and control
The course a first of its kind at Loyola requires students to divide into groups and write a paper on one specific gang Students are provided with a lab day each Friday where they work on a paper a 50-page report that includes five sectionsmdasha history of the gang the gangrsquos current activities theoretical explanations pictures and videos and interviews of members
The classrsquos unique angle comes from Lombardorsquos partnership with the Metro-politan Area Group for Igniting Civiliza-tion (MAGIC) Teen Reach program at the University of Chicago an after-school program serving youth from some of Chicagorsquos most severely under-resourced neighborhoods Through MAGIC students are given access to interview both current and former gang members
ldquoI teach this class because I want to bring more awareness of the problems that gang members face every dayrdquo says Lombardo ldquoThis class brings a different perspective to students on gang mem-bers their lifestyle and how andor why theoretically individuals in these neigh-borhoods become gang members as many donrsquot see any other options for themselvesrdquo
On March 1 Loyola celebrated its first-ever Wolf and Kettle Day a strategic outreach program to inform students about how donors positively impact their educational experiences
According to Stephanie Tomakowski the annual giving officer who worked to put together Wolf and Kettle Day the event was a great success What surprised many stu-dents who stopped by the booths in CFSU and the Terry Student Center was the fact that only 71 percent of their tuition is actu-ally covered by what they pay The other 29
percent is provided by donors Driving home the message the festivities were held on March 1 which actually represents the day in which each studentrsquos tuition money runs out and donor money takes over financing their education each academic year
In addition to learning about our gener-ous donors students received free bags of kettle corn and coupons to use at a number of different businesses on both campuses
raquo LUCeduwolf+kettle
While itrsquos true that women accomplish great things every day March is the month of the year when we give special recognition to their many wonderful accomplishments And during the Ann F Baum Women and Leadership Speaker Series on March 24 in the Mundelein Center Auditorium four spectacular alderwomen were honored for their many years of public service
The special subtitle for this yearrsquos meet-ing ldquoAll Politics is Local Public Service for the Common Goodrdquo was chosen specifi-cally because of the amazing coincidence
that the four alderwomen were retiring from City Council all in the same year ldquoThey are phenomenal models of the importance of public servicerdquo says Janet Sisler the director of the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership
The day of the event also marked the formal opening of the Mary Ann Smith Collection a group of her personal and political civic papers that are now open to the public for research They are available in the Gannon Centerrsquos Women and Leadership archives
Loyola Trinity Health sign LOI
Criminal justice course takes to the streets
Student volunteers at Wolf and Kettle Day talk to their fellow students about the importance of donors and giving back
Students celebrate generosityldquoI saw a lot of that wide-eyed open-mouthed response Students would say lsquoAre you kidding So the school year would end today if it werenrsquot for donorsrsquordquo
mdash S T e P H A N I e
T O M A K O W S K I
Public service for the common goodTHe fOUR aLdeRwOmen HOnORed (pictured left to right)
Vi DaleyndashLincoln Park 43rd Ward
Virginia ldquoGingerrdquo RugaindashBeverly 19th Ward (unable to attend event)
Helen ShillerndashUptown 46th Ward
Mary Ann SmithndashEdgewater 48th Ward
Recently rec-ognized with a National Science Foundation CAReeR award Jacob Ciszek Phd an assistant professor of
chemistry research is in the middle of an important study on Photochro-mic (Switching) Molecular Adsor-bates The study examines molecular photochromophores (switches) on surfaces and more specifically the study analyzes whether we can con-trol the surface properties of a metal via external stimulimdashindirectly Photochromic lenses which are clear indoors and darken automatically in response to sunlight outdoors are a similar example of this technology applied What is different about Cis-zekrsquos research is that his study looks at controlling electronic surfaces
Two years into the research with two published articles the study is ongoing Ciszek and his current research group which consists of three graduate and six undergradu-ate students hope that the ongoing research which will include at least seven to ten more studies and arti-cles informs the public and ignites more research and discussion within the science community
raquo homepageslucedu~jciszek
ReSeaRCH SPOTLIGHT
Prof earns nSf CaReeR award
PROfILe
M Grace CalhounLoyolarsquos New Director of Athletics
After a nationwide search Indiana University Associate Athletic Director M Grace Calhoun PhD has been named
the Director of Athletics at Loyola At Indiana Calhoun worked to improve academic and student achievement She
served on numerous NCAA and Big Ten committees and in 2009 she was presented with the NACWAA Nell Jackson
Administrator of the Year Award
bull bull bull what attracted you to Loyola Thatrsquos an easy one I have long known about Loyola and Irsquove admired from afar what the University has done to educate its students That was the key attraction When I got to campus meeting people and seeing the excitement and pride that they all took in working with students and ensuring their development it did nothing but confirm what I knew about the Jesuit style of education Beyond that I felt a strong sense that the athletics program can be more successful in the future with the proper energy and commit-ment and attention and I really felt those commitments from Father Garanzini and Rob Kelly [VP of Stu-dent Development]
bull bull bull at Indiana you were the associ-ate athletic director for aca-demic and Student engagement How will you bring those skills and experiences to Loyola First of all working directly with student-athletes on their overall development nicely translates into Loyolarsquos mission I care very much about the educational value of the sport and ensuring that athletics are an important co-curricular activity not just for the student-athletes but for the whole student
community I also bring knowledge of how to partner with the campus so that the athletics department is suc-cessful and that the campus benefits as well Itrsquos really bringing that two-way partnership Third I have plenty of experience raising the visibility of athletics programs and I plan to use that experience to engage not only the Loyola community but to work toward increased visibility in the Chicago area Irsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athlet-ics programs back to the national stage and to become more competitive
bull bull bull How do you see Loyola as fitting into Chicago Loyolarsquos plan is to become the premier undergraduate experience in Chicago I feel that enhancing the
athletics goes hand-in-hand with that goal We need to continue to make investments in facilities and staff to better support the student-athletes The existing high-quality educational experience and a really progressive student-athlete experi-ence in tandem create that unique niche for Loyola that other schools arenrsquot occupying Wersquoll create a stronger internal program and then go out and work with alums and the community to get that vis-ibility out there to encourage them to further support it Thatrsquos how we do something special and get Chi-cago to take notice
611
2011 fOUndeRSrsquo dInneR
LSC
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Loyolarsquos Foundersrsquo Dinner The event benefits the presidential schol-arship fund and will be held on the Lake Shore Campus For a chance to win two free tickets RSVP now
RSVP raquo 8002569652 or LUCedufounders
Events
LAKE SHORE
412
THIS I BELIEVE PaneL
530ndash630 pm bull Simpson Multipurpose Room
Join fellow faculty staff and students in a panel discussion of this yearrsquos common reading This I Believe The program is an opportunity to discuss shared values beliefs and motiva-tions engage in great discus-sion and enjoy a free meal
raquo mike mcKeon mmckeon1lucedu
WATER TOWER
414
LIBRaRY SPeaKeR SeRIeSmdashSCOTT STanTIS
6ndash8 pm bull Regents Hall 16th Floor Lewis Towers
Scott Stantis politi-cal cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune is the featured guest of this monthrsquos Library Speaker Series Join him as he discusses ldquoWhatrsquos Hap-pening in Chicagorsquos Politicsrdquo
raquo Cathy miesse cmiesselucedu
415ndash17
weeKend Of eXCeLLenCe
WTC and LSC
This weekend-long celebration will feature the schol-arly and civic work of our students and allow them
the opportunity to share it with the Loyola community family friends and neighbors The festivities kick off April 15 and a number of events and performances are scheduled throughout the weekend
raquo LUCeduexcellenceweekend
ldquoIrsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athletics programs back to the national stagerdquo
weeKend OfeXCeLLenCe
SAVE
THE
DATESAVE
820 N Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60611
Pre-SortedNon Profit Org
US PostagePaId
Permit No 5539Chicago IL
Inside Loyola is published by Loyola University Chicago Division of University Marketing and Communication 820 N Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 It is published the first week of the fall semester and the first Tuesday of each month from September through May (excluding January) and is posted on its Loyola website by 5 pm the Friday after the day of publication
VP University marketing and Communication
Kelly Shannon
director of Communication Maeve Kiley
Photography Mark Beane
Contributors Annie Busiek Tammy Chase Steve Christensen
Commencement 2011Loyolarsquos 141st annual Commencement will be May 12ndash14 and May 21 on the Lake Shore Campus This year the University has again gathered an impressive array of speakers for its ceremonies including John McDonough president of the Chicago Blackhawks who will speak to the graduates of the School of Communication Stritch School of Medicine speaker Bryan A Stevenson founder and executive director of the equal Justice Initiative and social work speaker Monsignor Michael Boland administrator president and CeO of Catholic Charities raquo LUCeducommencement
512
Graduate School and Institute of Pastoral Studies
Noon bull Gentile Arena Speaker Margaret Daniels Tyler
School of education
4 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Terry Mazany
College of arts and Sciences Honors Convocation
8 pm bull Gentile Arena
513
College of arts and Sciences (arts)
10 am bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Jian Ping
Baccalaureate mass
1230 pm bull Gentile Arena
College of arts and Sciences (Sciences)
4 pm bull Gentile ArenaSpeaker Thomas J Dart
School of Communication
7 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker John McDonough
Noon bull Navy Pier Grand Ballroom bull Speaker Bryan A Stevenson
Recently rec-ognized with a National Science Foundation CAReeR award Jacob Ciszek Phd an assistant professor of
chemistry research is in the middle of an important study on Photochro-mic (Switching) Molecular Adsor-bates The study examines molecular photochromophores (switches) on surfaces and more specifically the study analyzes whether we can con-trol the surface properties of a metal via external stimulimdashindirectly Photochromic lenses which are clear indoors and darken automatically in response to sunlight outdoors are a similar example of this technology applied What is different about Cis-zekrsquos research is that his study looks at controlling electronic surfaces
Two years into the research with two published articles the study is ongoing Ciszek and his current research group which consists of three graduate and six undergradu-ate students hope that the ongoing research which will include at least seven to ten more studies and arti-cles informs the public and ignites more research and discussion within the science community
raquo homepageslucedu~jciszek
ReSeaRCH SPOTLIGHT
Prof earns nSf CaReeR award
PROfILe
M Grace CalhounLoyolarsquos New Director of Athletics
After a nationwide search Indiana University Associate Athletic Director M Grace Calhoun PhD has been named
the Director of Athletics at Loyola At Indiana Calhoun worked to improve academic and student achievement She
served on numerous NCAA and Big Ten committees and in 2009 she was presented with the NACWAA Nell Jackson
Administrator of the Year Award
bull bull bull what attracted you to Loyola Thatrsquos an easy one I have long known about Loyola and Irsquove admired from afar what the University has done to educate its students That was the key attraction When I got to campus meeting people and seeing the excitement and pride that they all took in working with students and ensuring their development it did nothing but confirm what I knew about the Jesuit style of education Beyond that I felt a strong sense that the athletics program can be more successful in the future with the proper energy and commit-ment and attention and I really felt those commitments from Father Garanzini and Rob Kelly [VP of Stu-dent Development]
bull bull bull at Indiana you were the associ-ate athletic director for aca-demic and Student engagement How will you bring those skills and experiences to Loyola First of all working directly with student-athletes on their overall development nicely translates into Loyolarsquos mission I care very much about the educational value of the sport and ensuring that athletics are an important co-curricular activity not just for the student-athletes but for the whole student
community I also bring knowledge of how to partner with the campus so that the athletics department is suc-cessful and that the campus benefits as well Itrsquos really bringing that two-way partnership Third I have plenty of experience raising the visibility of athletics programs and I plan to use that experience to engage not only the Loyola community but to work toward increased visibility in the Chicago area Irsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athlet-ics programs back to the national stage and to become more competitive
bull bull bull How do you see Loyola as fitting into Chicago Loyolarsquos plan is to become the premier undergraduate experience in Chicago I feel that enhancing the
athletics goes hand-in-hand with that goal We need to continue to make investments in facilities and staff to better support the student-athletes The existing high-quality educational experience and a really progressive student-athlete experi-ence in tandem create that unique niche for Loyola that other schools arenrsquot occupying Wersquoll create a stronger internal program and then go out and work with alums and the community to get that vis-ibility out there to encourage them to further support it Thatrsquos how we do something special and get Chi-cago to take notice
611
2011 fOUndeRSrsquo dInneR
LSC
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Loyolarsquos Foundersrsquo Dinner The event benefits the presidential schol-arship fund and will be held on the Lake Shore Campus For a chance to win two free tickets RSVP now
RSVP raquo 8002569652 or LUCedufounders
Events
LAKE SHORE
412
THIS I BELIEVE PaneL
530ndash630 pm bull Simpson Multipurpose Room
Join fellow faculty staff and students in a panel discussion of this yearrsquos common reading This I Believe The program is an opportunity to discuss shared values beliefs and motiva-tions engage in great discus-sion and enjoy a free meal
raquo mike mcKeon mmckeon1lucedu
WATER TOWER
414
LIBRaRY SPeaKeR SeRIeSmdashSCOTT STanTIS
6ndash8 pm bull Regents Hall 16th Floor Lewis Towers
Scott Stantis politi-cal cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune is the featured guest of this monthrsquos Library Speaker Series Join him as he discusses ldquoWhatrsquos Hap-pening in Chicagorsquos Politicsrdquo
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weeKend Of eXCeLLenCe
WTC and LSC
This weekend-long celebration will feature the schol-arly and civic work of our students and allow them
the opportunity to share it with the Loyola community family friends and neighbors The festivities kick off April 15 and a number of events and performances are scheduled throughout the weekend
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ldquoIrsquoll do what I can to get Loyolarsquos athletics programs back to the national stagerdquo
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Inside Loyola is published by Loyola University Chicago Division of University Marketing and Communication 820 N Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 It is published the first week of the fall semester and the first Tuesday of each month from September through May (excluding January) and is posted on its Loyola website by 5 pm the Friday after the day of publication
VP University marketing and Communication
Kelly Shannon
director of Communication Maeve Kiley
Photography Mark Beane
Contributors Annie Busiek Tammy Chase Steve Christensen
Commencement 2011Loyolarsquos 141st annual Commencement will be May 12ndash14 and May 21 on the Lake Shore Campus This year the University has again gathered an impressive array of speakers for its ceremonies including John McDonough president of the Chicago Blackhawks who will speak to the graduates of the School of Communication Stritch School of Medicine speaker Bryan A Stevenson founder and executive director of the equal Justice Initiative and social work speaker Monsignor Michael Boland administrator president and CeO of Catholic Charities raquo LUCeducommencement
512
Graduate School and Institute of Pastoral Studies
Noon bull Gentile Arena Speaker Margaret Daniels Tyler
School of education
4 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Terry Mazany
College of arts and Sciences Honors Convocation
8 pm bull Gentile Arena
513
College of arts and Sciences (arts)
10 am bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Jian Ping
Baccalaureate mass
1230 pm bull Gentile Arena
College of arts and Sciences (Sciences)
4 pm bull Gentile ArenaSpeaker Thomas J Dart
School of Communication
7 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker John McDonough
Noon bull Navy Pier Grand Ballroom bull Speaker Bryan A Stevenson
820 N Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60611
Pre-SortedNon Profit Org
US PostagePaId
Permit No 5539Chicago IL
Inside Loyola is published by Loyola University Chicago Division of University Marketing and Communication 820 N Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 It is published the first week of the fall semester and the first Tuesday of each month from September through May (excluding January) and is posted on its Loyola website by 5 pm the Friday after the day of publication
VP University marketing and Communication
Kelly Shannon
director of Communication Maeve Kiley
Photography Mark Beane
Contributors Annie Busiek Tammy Chase Steve Christensen
Commencement 2011Loyolarsquos 141st annual Commencement will be May 12ndash14 and May 21 on the Lake Shore Campus This year the University has again gathered an impressive array of speakers for its ceremonies including John McDonough president of the Chicago Blackhawks who will speak to the graduates of the School of Communication Stritch School of Medicine speaker Bryan A Stevenson founder and executive director of the equal Justice Initiative and social work speaker Monsignor Michael Boland administrator president and CeO of Catholic Charities raquo LUCeducommencement
512
Graduate School and Institute of Pastoral Studies
Noon bull Gentile Arena Speaker Margaret Daniels Tyler
School of education
4 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Terry Mazany
College of arts and Sciences Honors Convocation
8 pm bull Gentile Arena
513
College of arts and Sciences (arts)
10 am bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker Jian Ping
Baccalaureate mass
1230 pm bull Gentile Arena
College of arts and Sciences (Sciences)
4 pm bull Gentile ArenaSpeaker Thomas J Dart
School of Communication
7 pm bull Gentile Arena bull Speaker John McDonough
