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GRADUATE SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS
March 29, 2021
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IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES
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APR 1: Last day to submit final approved copies of dissertation or thesis for May degree conferral (All other degree requirements MUST be met by this date, excluding pending Spring semester final grades).
APR 1-5: Easter Holiday - No classes Thursday evening (classes that start 4:15 p.m. or later are canceled) through Monday afternoon (classes beginning on or after 4:00 p.m. will be held).
APR 2: Good Friday - offices closed.
APR 14 (Updated): Last day to withdraw with a grade of "W." After this date the penalty grade of "WF" is assigned.
APR 15: Fall Registration begins.
For complete list, see the Graduate School Key Dates and Deadlines.
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Honey
ID: Rottweiler, 8 years old.
CARETAKER: Erika Krak, second year MA student, Criminal Justice & Criminology
FAVORITE PASTIMES: Snuggling on the couch in a blanket and getting belly rubs
FAVORITE SNACKS: Green beans & kale
NOTABLE QUIRK: She makes piggy noises when you pet her and her bottom teeth sometimes stick out!
Graduate School students, faculty and staff are highly encouraged to submit their pet pictures and profiles to gradschool@luc.edu to be featured in our weekly announcements!
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14th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
The Graduate School Advisory Council would like to offer a round of applause to the awardees of Loyola’s 14th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium:
Lauren Wisbrock with “"Garbage" Science: Anthropogenic Litter Assemblage, Assessment, and Connections to Biotic Health in Illinois Streams”
Lauren Solarski with ““A Place at the Table”: How Inclusive Group Coaching Fosters Confidence in Math Teaching and Increases Collaboration for Lead and Assistant Head Start Teachers”
Lydia Craig with “Library Lane: Digitally Discovering A Lost American Impressionist Painting”
Han Na Lee with “COVID-19 Related Racial Experiences Among Asian Americans: Discrimination, Color-blindness, Model Minority Myth, and Social Connectedness”
Peter Varughese with “Computational Approach to Understanding Canonical Ca2+ Signaling”
Jamie Patrianakos with “Affiliative Motivation and Trust Mitigate Negative Emotions Targeting Confronters of Racism”
Recordings of the 2021 Symposium presentations can be viewed here. Congratulations to the awardees and to all who participated!
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Library Services: Onsite and Online
The Loyola Information Commons and Lewis Library are open for individual, socially-distanced studying. While Cudahy Library and portions of Lewis Library remain closed to visitors, you can request library books (including books located at the Library Storage Facility) via contactless pickup service.
University Libraries services include:
- Access to the Library's digital collections.
- The HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service, which permits library users to access digitized copies of many of the print books in our library through the Library catalogue and HathiTrust.
- Scans of book chapters and articles when available through the library's resources, though requests for physical Interlibrary Loan items are not yet permitted. For more information, please see our ILL services guide.
- Students and faculty can request research help from the Libraries via email or Zoom appointment. For immediate library and research support, please use our 24-hour online chat service. Librarians are available to provide instruction on research and information literacy topics for both synchronous and asynchronous courses, and research and teaching support is also available from our campus archives and special collections.
To reiterate campus policy, before you visit campus and attempt to enter any buildings, it is important that you review and follow the Return to Campus Checklist for testing and safety. Your participation in Loyola’s surveillance testing program is required for campus access throughout the semester.
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Participate in a Food Security Survey
We are asking Loyola students to participate in a Food Security survey that will help the Loyola community know the impact of COVID-19 on student’s livelihoods. Participating in this survey will help the Loyola community formulate steps to address food insecurity within our student population. Please find the link to the survey below:
This Survey will only take approximately 15 - 20 mins. If you have any questions and/or concerns, please contact Frances Rafferty (frafferty@luc.edu) or Mariana Valencia Mestre (mvalenciamestre@luc.edu).
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14th Annual Dissertation Writing Retreat (Virtual)
May 24 - 28, 2021
Need some assistance in scheduling time for your writing? Think about participating in the Graduate School’s Virtual Writing Retreat – a week-long, all-day program designed to support you in completing your dissertation, run by the Graduate School and various colleagues from Loyola departments.
This virtual workshop will run from 9:00 am– 4:00 pm, May 24 (Monday) through May 28 (Friday). You must be able to commit to the entire week and all day. Interested students must indicate their interest to Heather Sevener, Assistant Dean, Student Services, no later than May 1.
In your email please include the following:
1. One-two paragraphs on your dissertation research (abstract would be fine)
2. Where you are currently in your program and in your dissertation process; please include information about committee formation and proposal defense. A drafted timeline for dissertation completion is helpful.
3. An email of support from your Advisor or Dissertation Director that includes a commitment that they will follow up with you after the writing retreat to discuss progress and future plans.
The email along with the attachments should be sent to the hsevene@luc.edu. Put “[STUDENT NAME] writing retreat” in the message title/subject.
Our Goals for the Retreat are:
- Participants in this workshop will get a taste of completion while working in a virtual group environment during these unusual times and find it both motivating and supportive.
- Participants will come to the workshop prepared to put fingers to keyboards in order to reach a specific goal: complete the dissertation proposal (in draft or final form) or complete a dissertation chapter (in draft or final form).
This Workshop is open to all doctoral students in the Graduate School from every discipline. You must have completed your comprehensive exam(s) to participate. If you have questions, please email Heather Sevener at hsevene@luc.edu.
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Women's History Month
Women and Leadership Archives
Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) will be highlighting collections of women in politics on Facebook throughout March. They are also promoting the following resources:
- Print and color images from the WLA collections as part of their Color Our Collections campaign
- Votes for Women roundup of events and resources from WLA's initiative commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment
University Libraries
In honor of Women's History Month, University Libraries is encouraging Loyola ID holders to read Vice President Kamala Harris' book, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. Learn more here.
We hope you can join us in celebrating Women's History Month at Loyola!
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150 Scholar Series Events
Climate Change: An Existential Threat
Tuesday, March 30 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Presented by: Johanna Oksala, PhD, Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy, Moderated by: Norberto Grzywacz, PhD, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Additional participants: Nick Russell, First-Year Jesuit Scholastic, Philosophy, Daphne Pons, First-Year PhD Student, Philosophy
When people contend that climate change presents an existential threat, they usually mean that it has the potential to remove human species from the planet or lead to an irrevocable collapse of human civilization. In this lecture, Dr. Oksala will explore a related, but nonetheless distinct philosophical meaning of an existential threat: climate change can also be understood as an existential threat in the sense that it demolishes the supports for a meaningful life. Register here.
A Conversation with Annie Duflo
Thursday, April 1 | 12:30 to 2:00 PM
Hosted by: Seth Green, JD, Founding Director, Baumhart Center, Executive Lecturer, Quinlan School of Business and moderated by: Abol Jalilvand, PhD, Professor of Finance and Ralph Marotta Chair in Free Enterprise, Founding Director, Quinlan Series on the Future of Business Education
Remarks by: Annie Duflo, Executive Director, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and Norberto Grzywacz, PhD, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
As the executive director of IPA, Annie Duflo oversees a global research and policy organization that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty through agriculture, education, financial inclusion, governance, health, peace and recovery, and social protection. Working with over 600 leading academics and 1000 research staff, IPA brings researchers and decision-makers together to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine solutions to address global poverty and income inequality in over 22 countries. Co-hosted by the Quinlan Series on the Future of Business Education and the Baumhart Center, the conversation will explore the latest research on global poverty and income inequality and how to address both. Register here.
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Work Along with Heather
Are you sick of working alone in your room? Looking for someone to give you a bit of a pep talk every once in a while or jump start your writing week? Hang out with Assistant Dean Heather Sevener on Zoom! This isn’t a meeting, you won’t have to talk, it’s just a chance to connect if you miss the feeling of working around others. Come and go as you please. What have you got to lose?
EVERY MONDAY from 9:00 to 10:30 AM on ZOOM
Questions? Email Heather at hsevene@luc.edu
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National Library Week
Celebrate National Library Week from April 4 to 10 to promote the vital role that libraries play in offering resources and providing services for all, whether in-person or online. LUC University Libraries staff and faculty are celebrating (socially distanced, of course) by offering the Loyola community a variety of fun and educational activities.
Take a look at the week’s schedule and we hope you can join us online! And, even if you are not able to participate, please remember to follow us on Twitter @LUCLibraries and Instagram @LibrariesLUC and tell us why you love Loyola University Chicago Libraries!
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Grad School Webinar Event: Mastering Academic Time Management
April 8, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Graduate students and new faculty alike often struggle to balance their teaching duties, research projects, and personal lives. Additionally, academics frequently find networking with mentors and setting up accountability difficult. Join us on April 8th for a webinar from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity that will help you build these skills to aid you in finishing your graduate program and getting started on the right foot at your first academic appointments.
The webinar itself - led by Communications Professor Lisa Hanasono at Bowling Green State University - goes from 1:00-2:00pm, but we will begin at 12:30pm to learn about the remarkably large and useful resources at the NCFDD - which all Loyolans may access but many do not know about. We will also stick around for half an hour after the webinar to discuss the presentation and, hopefully, do a little networking ourselves.
Please RSVP at gradresearch@luc.edu to receive the Zoom link.
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University Libraries: Author Reading & Meditation Event
Please join the University Libraries and author Arianne Lehn on Thursday, April 8 at 6 PM as she reads from her book, Ash and Starlight, during National Library Week. Arianne will share the book’s inspiration and the meaning of prayer in her life. She will lead an interactive reading and reflection, including suggestions for how anyone can write prayers of their own.
Please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom link.
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Virtual Workshop on African American Research
Dates: June 2-4, 2021
Application deadline: Monday, April 19, 2021
Eligibility: PhD candidates and advanced doctoral program graduate students; U.S. citizen or permanent resident
The Michigan Center for African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) and Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) is pleased to announce its 2021 Summer Mentoring Workshop on African American Research. Drs. Robert Joseph Taylor, Khari Brown and Amanda Woodward are the program faculty.
This workshop for advanced graduate students emphasizes training in numerous areas including: 1) publishing in peer review journals, 2) writing grant proposals to the NIH, 3) the tenure process, 4) ethical conduct of research, 5) successful mentoring and collaborative relationships, and, most importantly, 6) how to navigate the academy. The primary objectives are on research skill enhancement, career mentoring, and professional development.
More information on how to apply can be found here. To apply, go to this link.
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JOBS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
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Hank Center Graduate Assistantship
The Hank Center is offering a 9-month graduate assistantship to a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program housed in the Graduate School. The Graduate Assistant will work with the Center Director and staff on various projects and tasks designed to enhance the running of the office, research projects and initiatives, and our many calendared events. This assistantship is renewable through the term of the applicants degree program, up to four years. The successful applicant will be someone whose doctoral work and research touch upon Catholic intellectual life and culture. Candidates from English, History, Philosophy and Theology are preferred. Applicants must possess excellent organizational ability as well as research and analytical skills. Student will need facility with web management, a general knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. Strong writing skills and a demonstrated attention to detail are also desired.
In addition, the applicant should be conversant in and supportive of the Catholic intellectual tradition and have outstanding interpersonal skills. All interested candidates should send—electronic only—a cover letter, which speaks directly, and with examples, to the skill and abilities required for the position, their resume/CV, and the names and contact information of two references to Dr. Michael P. Murphy (mmurphy23luc.edu).
Applications must be submitted by April 19, 2021 at 5:00 PM. The position will begin on August 16, 2021.
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