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Recent graduate Sarah Zoghbi was the recipient of Loyola’s Ignatian Award, recognized for her influential work as co-founding director of the Loyola Center for Counseling & Education (LCCE), which has quickly grown to serve hundreds of clients each month. Congratulations, Sarah!

Dr. LeAnne Steen, director and founder of the Center for Play Therapy at Loyola, appeared on WWL-TV’s "Great Day Louisiana" for Part One and Part Two of “Parenting Tips During a Pandemic.”

Student Jhante Rivet is working with Dr. Madison Silverstein in Scholars Committed to Opportunities in Psychological Education (SCOPE), a comprehensive and culturally informed program that works with undergraduate students of color interested in gaining admission to graduate programs in psychology. Congratulations, Jhante!

Becky Eldrege's The Inner Chapel: Embracing the Promises of God (Loyola Press, 2020) was recognized by the Illumination Awards with a Gold Medal in the category of Spirituality. The Illumination Awards annually recognize the best Christian books from well-known publishers and independents with a passion for the Word. 

At the Spring 2021 University Convocation, Loyola's Center for Faculty Innovation presented Tracey Lamont with the Creative Canvas Course Award. The award recognized her fall 2020 course Foundations of Religious Education as exhibiting creativity, ease in navigation, organization/design, engaging activities, and innovation.

Diana Hancharenko (MPS 2011) recently shared her experience of pivoting during the pandemic from in-person young adult activities to virtual and socially distanced ones at St. Angela Merici’s in Youngstown, Ohio, In the article "Challenging 2020 Provides Opportunities for Innovation in Young-Adult Ministry," Diana is interviewed along with a group of other young adult ministry leaders who share how they have embraced the limitations imposed by the pandemic by creating new ways of carrying out their ministries to young adults.

LIM MPS graduate Ansel Augustine's reflections on Advent (and Congo Square, Tremé, and Mardi Gras Indians). "Christ is already there!"

Sr. Jackline Mwikali Mwongela highlights her work with the Bosco Boys Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, in an article in the Global Sisters Report. The centre gives boys who lived on the streets a safe home and informal education. In her article, Sr. Jackline explains how she created a Catholic social teaching workshop for the boys' parents and guardians, an undertaking inspired by her studies at LIM. In this way, Sr. Jackline lives the charism of her religious community, the Loreto Sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in freedom, justice, and integrity.

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Sr. Anne Wandia, a member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa, is currently residing in Wau, South Sudan, where her primary ministry is teacher development. In an article entitled "Our Call in South Sudan" for the Global Sisters Report, she explains how her studies at LIM helped her to partner with local leaders and international organizations to serve displaced families in the Wau Diocese and to lead an effort to develop and implement the Child Safeguarding Policy for the Catholic Diocese of Wau.

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Dr. Tracey Lamont’s article “Ministry with Young Adults: Toward a New Ecclesiological Imagination” has been published in a special issue of Religions, an open access journal. The special issue focuses on "Catholic Youth & Young Adult Ministry." To read the article or download it, GO»

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