Andrew Forney, assistant professor of computer science, felt pride in Loyola Marymount University even before he started here as an undergraduate. As a third generation Lion, he follows the footsteps … Read more
Umesh Ketkar traded a rewarding career in the space industry for a dream job, teaching engineers at the Loyola Marymount University Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering. Ketkar, … Read more
Biology department chair Wendy Binder and a team of intercollegiate researchers have been awarded a three-year collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation to study Late Pleistocene megafauna at the … Read more
“A lot of times biology or science is confined to the laboratory. One of the things we’d like to do is move it from the bench top to the real … Read more
Mathematics has long been part of Professor Alissa Crans’ life. Hers is not so much a journey into mathematics, but rather a journey through it. When she was in elementary … Read more
Elizabeth ’79 and Michael Rudinica ’75, M.S. ’79 established an endowment in 2007 to recognize two meritorious faculty members each year. Mike shared that his motivation for the endowment stemmed … Read more
In the race to address climate change and sustainability, Loyola Marymount University may be educating a new breed of Salvadoran scientists to help El Salvador address the effects of and … Read more
A web app called GRNsight is the culmination of interdisciplinary collaboration among biology, computer science and mathematics faculty and students. GRNsight allows users to visualize models of gene regulatory networks … Read more
When retired professors Jackie Dewar, Ph.D., professor emerita of mathematics, and Virginia Merriam, Ph.D., professor emerita of biology, decided to review the history of women at Seaver College several years … Read more
As one of the few female mathematics students in her college and graduate school classes, Jackie Dewar understood her minority status. “Women math students heard remarks that indicated you weren’t … Read more
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism—one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)—recently awarded a Loyola Marymount University research project $374,000 to investigate a possible link between … Read more