July 24, 2017 Elizabeth Smart to deliver the Sister Cleophas Costello Lecture Loyola University Maryland welcomes Elizabeth Smart for the 27th Sister Cleophas Costello Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in McGuire Hall on the Evergreen campus.
June 7, 2017 Govanstowne Farmers' Market returns for seventh season Loyola University Maryland’s York Road Initiative will host the seventh annual Govanstowne Farmers’ Market on Wednesdays from 3 – 7 p.m. between June 7 and Sept. 27, 2017. The market will be located in the parking lot of Loyola's Transportation and Public Safety complex at 5104 York Rd.
May 24, 2017 Loyola names Brown Advisory’s Michael Hankin Business Leader of the Year Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management named Michael D. Hankin, president and CEO of Brown Advisory, as Business Leader of the Year for 2017. The award honors business executives who embody Loyola’s Jesuit commitment to community and service in the leadership of their organization.
May 20, 2017 Loyola celebrates Class of 2017 at 165th Commencement Exercises More than 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students received degrees at Loyola University Maryland’s 165th Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 20, 2017, at Royal Farms Arena in downtown Baltimore.
May 18, 2017 Loyola receives $105,000 gift from T. Rowe Price Foundation to support York Road Initiative Over the next three years, the gift will fund a planning process—including trainings, assessment, measurement, and strategic goal-setting—for this shared vision, and will result in a synthesized, 10-year operational plan to improve the quality of life of those living, working, and learning in the Greater Govans/York Road corridor communities immediately east of Loyola’s Evergreen campus.
May 9, 2017 Loyola receives gifts from the Rizzo family Loyola University Maryland has received more than $800,000 from Daniel Rizzo and his wife, Kelly, to supplement their endowed Empowering Baltimore Youth Scholarship Fund. The gift comes in the form of equity in Inovalon, a cloud-based analytics and data-driven platforms company that Rizzo helped to found.
May 5, 2017 Justin Holbrook, M.Ed. ’17, named Baltimore City Public Schools’ 2017 Teacher of the Year Justin Holbrook, a fourth grade math and science teacher at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School and graduate student in Loyola University Maryland’s School of Education, was named Baltimore City Public Schools’ 2017 Teacher of the Year. Holbrook will receive his Master of Education in Educational Leadership at Loyola’s 2017 Commencement Exercises on May 20.
May 3, 2017 Loyola names Jeff Lochowicz dean of undergraduate admission After completing a national search, Loyola University Maryland has named Jeff Lochowicz the dean of undergraduate admission. Currently the executive director of admissions at Purdue University Northwest, Lochowicz will start his role at Loyola on June 30, 2017.
May 3, 2017 Christina Spearman, Ed.D., named dean of students for Loyola University Maryland Loyola University Maryland announced that Christina Spearman, Ed.D., will serve as the new dean of students beginning July 1, 2017, and support the work of Donelda Cook, Ph.D., who will become vice president for student development the same day.