May 20, 2022 Gia Grier McGinnis, Dr.PH., named executive director for Loyola’s Center for Community, Service, and Justice/York Road Initiative Gia Grier McGinnis, Dr.PH., has been named as the next executive director for Loyola’s Center for Community, Service, and Justice (CCSJ) and the York Road Initiative. She will begin in the role at Loyola on June 27, 2022.
May 18, 2022 Deborah M. Cady Melzer, Ph.D., to be Loyola’s next vice president for student development and dean of students Deborah M. Cady Melzer, Ph.D., has been named Loyola University Maryland’s next vice president for student development and dean of students. Cady Melzer joins Loyola from Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is vice president for student affairs. She was selected after the completion of a national search and will begin at Loyola on July 18, 2022.
May 14, 2022 Loyola celebrates Class of 2022 at Commencement ceremony Loyola University Maryland celebrated the Class of 2022 at the University’s 169th Commencement during a ceremony at M&T Bank Stadium in downtown Baltimore on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Approximately 1,200 students walked across the stage to mark the completion of their bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees during the ceremony.
May 10, 2022 Two Loyola graduates awarded Fulbright Scholarships Two Loyola graduates, Grace Garret, ’21, and Darian López Robles, ’19, have won prestigious Fulbright Scholarships to study abroad. Garret will travel to South Korea in January of 2023 as an English Teaching Assistant, while López Robles will use her Fulbright Scholarship to serve as an English Teaching Assistant in Argentina.
May 6, 2022 Loyola’s Class of 2026 set to break records as largest and most diverse class in university history Loyola University Maryland is looking forward to welcoming a strong and diverse Class of 2026 in the fall after exceeding the University’s deposit goal for the incoming class.
April 26, 2022 Robert D. Kelly, Ph.D., to leave Loyola to become president of University of Portland Robert D. Kelly, Ph.D., vice president and special assistant to the president, has been named president of the University of Portland, a Catholic university in Portland, Oregon. Kelly will continue to serve in his role at Loyola through the close of the spring semester before becoming president of the University of Portland in July.
April 26, 2022 Baltimore Collegetown Network Hosts First Leaders in Higher Education Reception Baltimore Collegetown Network, a nonprofit organization that works to attract, engage and retain college students in Baltimore, hosted its first Leaders in Higher Education Reception at Baltimore Center Stage the evening of April 19.
April 21, 2022 Loyola lecture addresses segregation and racial equity in Baltimore Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business will hold the Impact Fellowship Lecture on Thursday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. with Lawrence T. Brown, Ph.D., author of “The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America.” The lecture will take place in the fourth-floor programming room in the Andrew White Student Center at Loyola University Maryland.
April 21, 2022 Earth Day Message from Loyola President Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D. Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D., president of Loyola University Maryland, sent this Earth Day message to the Loyola community.
April 8, 2022 Loyola’s new academic building for innovation and collaborative learning receives LEED Gold Certification Loyola University Maryland’s Miguel B. Fernandez Family Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)— a designation awarded to environmentally sustainable buildings.
