Loyola has selected its inaugural cohort of Ricci Scholars to spend one semester at the John Felice Rome Center and one semester at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies participating in guided international and interdisciplinary research. The first Ricci scholars are all students in the College of Arts and Sciences: Laura Burns (Journalistic Approaches to Urban Poverty in Rome and Beijing), Alexander Gottemoller (Italian and Chinese Perspectives on Embryonic Stem Cell Research), Michael Jamroszczyk (Photographic Essay: Faces of the New World), Elaina Mack (Art, Iconography, and Worship in Eastern and Western Practice), and Nicole Dawson (Building Green in Italy and China).