Congratulations Janya Swami

Congratulations to MPH candidate Janya Swami who was awarded the Loyola Community and Global Stewards Fellowship in the amount of $2,500 in support of her work on diabetes awareness with "Cummunetes."

Congratulations Christine Curtis

 Congratulations to Christine Curtis, MPH candidate, who was recently awarded the Loyola Community and Global Stewards Fellowship in the amount of $2,500 in support of her work with the Children's National Medical Center Emergency Department.

6th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Graduate School Students:

Loyola University Chicago:
6th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Graduate School Students

Sustaining Jesuit Ideals: Exploring the Extraordinary

• Saturday, April 20, 2013 
• Crown Center, Lake Shore Campus 
• Official Call for Abstracts
• Submission Deadline: March 1, 2013 

The Graduate School will host their interdisciplinary research symposium on Saturday April 20, 2013 at the Crown Center on Lake Shore Campus, as a forum for Loyola graduate students to present their scholarly work. The goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium is to provide participants an appreciation of how Loyola Graduate students are incorporating the Jesuit ideals within their research.

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The theme of this year’s symposium is Sustaining Jesuit Ideals: Exploring the Extraordinary. We invite students to display their research based upon one of the Jesuit ideals: 

• Community & Social Justice 
• Global Awareness & Sustainability 
• Innovative Approaches 
• Religious Experience & Faith 
• Values & Culture 

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Present your work - in the form of either as a paper presentation or as a poster presentation.

• Any current graduate student within the Graduate School is welcomed to submit. 
• Students should rank which of the Jesuit ideals (up to three) they think best exemplifies their research and provide a one sentence explanation for each. 
• Panel sessions and poster categorizations will be composed upon these Jesuit ideals.
• Monetary awards will be given to the top paper presenters and poster presenters. 
• Submissions are due Friday, March 1, 2013 at 5:00pm and should be submitted electronically to GSAC@luc.edu. Submissions should include keywords that broadly describe the research particularly paying attention to individuals not familiar with the discipline. In Word format, please include an abstract (maximum 250 words) and a brief bio (maximum 50-100 words).