Economics Professor J. Stuart Wood, Ph.D., published “The Finance of Katrina” in the International Journal of Social Economics, Volume 35, Numbers 7 and 8, 2008, pp. 579-589.

Posted on November 20, 2008

MBA Director Kendra Reed, Ph.D., was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies and is the faculty athletic representative for the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference.

Posted on November 20, 2008

Accounting Professor Daphne Main, Ph.D., and two external colleagues published “Depreciation and Section 179 Deductions Get a One Year Boost in 2008” in the June issue of Practical Tax Strategies.

Posted on November 20, 2008

Kate Lawrence, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing, is a new member of the board of directors for Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education. Lawrence is working with the association’s conference planning members to possibly hold a future conference in New Orleans. She also leads an informal group on campus that deals with integrating the Jesuit mission into class assignments.

Posted on November 20, 2008

Wing M. Fok, Ph.D., the Henry J. Engler, Jr., Distinguished Professor in Management, served as the keynote speaker for the inaugural Asian Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana Gala on Saturday, Oct. 18.

Posted on November 20, 2008

Kathy Barnett presented a paper at the conference for the Association of Business Communication in Incline Village, Nevada. The paper, "Revisiting the Business Internship: Communication Skills in Practice," was based on data collected from student interns over the past year.

Posted on November 19, 2008

Michelle Johnston, Ph.D., of the Joseph A. Butt, S.J., College of Business, was named to Gambit Weekly’s annual list “40 Under 40,” a “look at some of the young people who are making remarkable contributions to the New Orleans metropolitan region.” She was listed in the Nov. 4 issue of the newspaper and was honored at a reception. Johnston, 39, an associate professor of management, was recognized for developing Loyola’s Executive Mentoring Program to help retain students enrolled in the College of Business. Johnston told Gambit she hopes the program will have the long-term effect of keeping young professionals in the city after they graduate. “We were just trying to be innovative and find something that would interest the students,” Johnston said. “We wanted a link to show there are a lot of good opportunities in New Orleans. We're also trying to stop the brain drain.” Johnston started the mentoring program five years ago, which is a requirement for all freshmen business students. Students work with business mentors in the New Orleans area once a month. “What students really need when they're 18 or 19 is direction,” Johnston said. “Before the program, our retention rates were really low. Within one year of starting the program, our retention rates rose. Now students say they are excited to be in business.”

Posted on November 19, 2008

Catherine P. Zeph, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Religion and Education in Loyola’s Institute for Ministry, gave a plenary presentation titled, “The Interrelationship of Professional and Personal Growth,” on August 13, to the annual conference of the National Association of State Judicial Educators in Philadelphia, Pa.

Posted on November 10, 2008

Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, has been invited to give a major address at the Eighth Argentinean Congress of Protozoology and Parasitic Disease, to be held Nov. 2-5, in Rosario, Argentina. Dorn's presentation, “Globalization of Chagas Disease: An update on Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the United States,” will address her finding of the first locally-acquired human case of infection with the Chagas parasite in Louisiana, and the sixth ever in the United States. She will also discuss her collaborative work on Chagas in animals, such as dogs and kissing bug insects, which help spread the parasite, and she will meet with other Chagas researchers from throughout South America.

Posted on November 10, 2008

Provost Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies., Denis Janz’s book, “A Reformation Reader” (second revised edition), has been named a 2008 Bestseller by Chrisitan Century magazine. This textbook is used in courses at well over 100 universities, colleges and seminaries in the U.S.

Posted on November 10, 2008

Dr. Bernard Cook, the Provost Distinguished Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans, recently lectured at two Romanian universities. Cook discussed “The United States and the Issue of Appeasement: An Historical Analysis,” on Oct. 20, and “The Impact of September 11 on United States Foreign and Domestic Policy,” on Oct. 21, at Ovidius University in Constanta, Romania. He also lectured on Oct. 22 at Hyperion University, located in Bucharest, Romania, on the impact of September 11 on United States policy. Cook also received an invitation by the Nicolae Titulescu Foundation in Bucharest for a future lecture.

Posted on November 10, 2008

Dr. Barbara C. Ewell, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, recently gave the keynote address at the Faulkner and Chopin Conference held at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, October 2-4, 2008. The biennial conference is sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies. Dr. Ewell’s topic was “Storm Stories: Chopin and Faulkner in New Orleans.” More information can be found at click here or click here.

Posted on November 10, 2008

S.L. Alexander, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Mass Communication spoke on “Effective Communication with the Media” at the national conference of the National Association of Women Judges in Portland in October 2008.

Posted on November 10, 2008

Associate professor organizes panel for law school conference

Monica Hof Wallace, an associate law professor, organized and presented a panel discussion on "Family Law Pedagogy" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference in July 2008.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Law professor publishes article on feminism and environmental justice

Robert Verchick, a law professor, published an article titled "Katrina, Feminism, and Environmental Justice" in the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender. The journal has been a pioneering publisher of gender-related legal scholarship for more than 20 years. Interdisciplinary in outlook, the journal publishes three to four issues per year on a diverse cross-section of topics.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor publishes article on commercial waste disposal

Markus G. Puder, a law professor, published an article in Dec. 2007 titled "Options, Methods, and Costs for Offsite Commercial Disposal of Exploration and Production Wastes" in SPE Projects, Facilities & Construction.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Associate professor appointed to city planning committee

John Lovett, a law professor, was recently appointed by the New Orleans City Planning Commission to serve on the Planning Technical Advisory Committee. Over the next 10 months, the committee will advise the commission and its consultants on preparation and completion of a new master plan for the future development of the City of New Orleans.

Prof. Lovett also recently had an article accepted for publication by the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce. The article will be published in fall 2008.

In Oct. 2008, Prof. Lovett presented a continuing legal education seminar to the New Orleans Bar Association's Real Property Section entitled "Strategies for Revitalizing Abandoned and Blighted Properties in New Orleans.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor publishes two journal articles

Stephen Higginson, a law professor, recently published two journal articles. The first, "Thurgood Marshall: Cases in Controversy," was published in the George Mason Law Review in spring 2008. The second, "Constitutional Advocacy Explains Constitutional Outcomes," was published in the Florida Law Review in Sept. 2008.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor publishes books on Louisiana criminal cases

Bobby Harges, a law professor, recently published Harges and Jones Louisiana Evidence by Thomson/West and Louisiana Criminal Law Cases and Materials by Vandeplas Publishing.

Prior to joining Loyola's faculty, Prof. Harges practiced law in New Orleans with Deutsch Kerrigan and Stiles, specializing in civil and construction litigation. He also taught at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor selected as a public interest fellow of Harvard Law School

Davida Finger, a law professor, was selected as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow of Harvard Law School for Spring 2009. The Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows' Program brings public interest attorneys from across the country for one or two days to counsel and advise law students about public service. Wasserstein Fellows are selected based on the breadth and diversity of their public interest experiences, the areas of expertise in which current students and faculty express a strong interest, and a demonstrated interest and ability to mentor.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor helps organize symposium on predatory pricing

Lloyd Drury, a law professor, assisted the Journal of Public Interest Law to organize a symposium on predatory pricing. The conference was held at Loyola University's College of Law on Fri., Oct. 17, 2008.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor elected to Comparative Law board

Dominique Custos, law professor, was elected to the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. The non-profit promotes the comparative study of law and the understanding of foreign legal systems. It publishes a journal and provides for research and publication of writings, books, papers and pamphlets relating to comparative, foreign or private international law.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor makes conference presentations, quoted in newspaper

Mitchell F. Crusto, law professor, made presentations at several conferences in 2008. Prof. Crusto presented "Personal Constitutional Rights in Troubled Waters II" at the 14th Annual Jamaican Sunset CLE in Negril, Jamaica, in August 2008. He was the moderator of "Reparations for African Americans: An Essential Remedy, Legally Viable or Racially Divisive" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2008 Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. in July 2008. Finally, he presented "Unconscious Classism: Entity Equity for Sole Proprietors" as a visiting faculty lecture at the University of Miami in February 2008.

Prof. Crusto was quoted in an article in The Times-Picayune newspaper on August 27, 2008. The article, "Insurers Use Federal Cash to Help Pay Claims," is available online. click here

Prof. Crusto wrote a letter to the editor regarding insurance litigation in The Times-Picayune on April 13, 2008. The article is available online. click here

Prof. Crusto was recently asked to join Judge Richard Posner, a retired judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in launching the South Carolina Law Review's Peer Review Pilot Program for this fall.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Professor presents at conferences, named to boards

Mary Garvey Algero, law professor, made presentations at two conferences in July 2008. The first was "Challenges (& Solutions) in Teaching Civil Procedure" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual (SEALS) Conference in Palm Beach, Fla. The second paper was "Beyond Powerpoint and Movie Clips: How to Reach Your Full Potential as a Teacher" at the Conference of the Legal Writing Institute at Indiana University's School of Law.

Prof. Algero was also recently re-elected to the executive board of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She also was appointed to serve a second term on the editorial board of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

Posted on October 29, 2008

Law professor featured in Loyola Lawyer magazine

David R. Normann, law professor, was featured in a faculty profile article in the spring 2008 edition of the Loyola Lawyer magazine. click here

Posted on October 28, 2008