Awards

Loyola University Chicago and the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship awards Community Engagement Awards to undergraduate students or group of students who participated in either a Service-Learning or Academic Internship Engaged Learning course during the 2023-2024 academic year. Student who are good candidates for this award would have demonstrated some of the following during their engaged learning courses:

• A dedication to social justice in their work
• A lasting impact with a community agency through their engagement
• Demonstrated a deep concern for the environment or local community

Faculty, staff, and community organization representatives are asked to submit nominations for those students or group of students. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024. Students receive a $500 award. Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023.

The Loyola University Community Partner Award for Coeducation is given to a non-profit community organization who hosted one or more undergraduate Engaged Learning students since spring 2023 and who best exemplifies the role of a community partner who co-educates and supports our Loyola students. As a co-educator, the partner creates space for learning through collaboration with their organization.

The Community Partner Award for Coeducation exists to recognize and celebrate partner organizations who not only are doing great work for their community, but are also undertaking additional effort to serve as partners in education working with Loyola students at their organization.

Faculty, staff, and community organization representatives (self-nominations are welcome) are asked to submit nominations, which will open on November 27, 2023. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024.

Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023 to nominate an organization.

A learning portfolio (ePortfolio) is a digital collection that demonstrates a student’s work over time, featuring skills, abilities, values, experiences and reflections. The Learning Portfolio Award will be given to a student or group of students who cultivated and curated a portfolio throughout a program or academic course at Loyola University Chicago. Students, faculty, and staff submit nominations for students who created learning portfolios in Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023, or Spring 2024.

Each portfolio will be reviewed and evaluated based on the four learning outcomes below as well as the overlapping award categories

Portfolio Learning Outcomes:

1. Synthesize learning from experience through reflection, applying outside the classroom learning with inside the classroom learning.
2. Critically reflect upon intellectual, personal, professional, and civic learning within the context of the student experience at Loyola.
3. Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and values acquired through reflecting on their experiences.
4. Articulate connections to Social Justice and the Jesuit Mission of Loyola

Faculty, staff, and students are asked to submit nominations as of November 27, 2023. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024. Students receive a $500 award.  

Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023.

Graduate Student Mentor Award

The Graduate Student Mentor award has been established to recognize and reward the exceptional work of Loyola's graduate student mentors in the area of mentoring undergraduate researchers. Nominees must be current Loyola Graduate Students. Nominations can come from current undergraduate students only.

Submit nominations starting November 27, 2023. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024.

Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023.

Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Student Mentoring

This award recognizes and rewards exceptional work of Loyola's faculty in the area of undergraduate research. Mentors must be employed at Loyola University Chicago. Only undergraduate students of Loyola may nominate faculty. 

Submit nominations starting November 27, 2023. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024.

Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023.

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

The Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award has been established to honor Loyola undergraduates who conduct exceptional research, articulate their research to others, and enhance Loyola’s reputation as a quality research university by integrating research into their academic learning experience. Nominees must be Loyola undergraduates who conducted research during the 2023-2024 academic year. The multiple winners will receive $500.

Submit nominations starting November 27, 2023. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2024. 

Nomination Form will open November 27, 2023.

Adolfo Nicolas SJ Excellence in Engaged Learning and Teaching Award

This award recognizes an instructor who brings imagination and dedication to an Engaged Learning course in the spirit of former Superior of the Jesuits Adolfo Nicolas SJ's quote "Depth of thought and imagination in the Ignatian tradition involves a profound engagement with the real, a refusal to let go until one goes beneath the surface." 

• The instructor must have taught an Engaged Learning course during the previous or current school year. Engaged Learning categories include:
• Academic Internship
• Public Performance
• Fieldwork
• Service-Learning
• Undergraduate Research
• Award nominees will have shown excellence in incorporating and centering the Engaged Learning experiences in the curriculum and leveraging it to impact student learning.

• This award is open to all LUC instructors (tenure track, non-tenure track, and adjunct)

• Nominations can be submitted by students, staff, community partners, or faculty colleagues. There are no self nominations. Nominations will open November 27th, 2023 and the winner will be announced at the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium.

• Nominees will be asked to submit their CV,  teaching statement, response to award prompt, and the name of one additional reference to their engaged learning teaching.

Additional information on each of the recipients and their nominators can be found on this slideshow: 2023 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium Awards 

Community Engagement Awards

• Julia Vitale, Julia Briggs, Devon Lay, Valerie Simpson & Krisbel Franco - Chicago Shakespeare
• Tristan C Walker, Jessica Bailey Tuquero, Siegfriedy Andrade, Rakayla Campbell, Dylan Roz Elazegui, Harlee Elizabeth Lovett & Maya F Rosenfeld - Roma Turismo
• Katerina Garbis - Timber Ridge Pediatric Therapy
• Siena Barasci - Make-A-Wish Illinois
• Remy Beauchamp and Cameron Agno - St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome
• Pamela Martinez Ruiz - Dept. of Aging

Community Partner Awards

• Evanston Township High School Health Center
• McCutcheon Elementary School

Learning Portfolio Awards

• Grace Herman - Theatre Major
• Nina Jackson - Biology & Dance
• Molly Kaiser - Psychology & Dance

Adolfo Nicolas SJ Excellence in Engaged Learning and Teaching Award

• Stacy Neier Beran - Marketing, School of Business
• Tania Schusler - School of Environmental Sustainability

Research Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards

• Eno Dynowski
• Julianna Collazo Vargas
• Missy Tepe
• Jessica Moore
• Christine Severude
• Trinity Bauer
• Isabel O’Conner
• Arden Shultz

Graduate Student Mentor Award

• Sarah Broner - Clinical Psychology

Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring

• Dr Michael Burns - Biology
• Brian Ohsowski - School of Environmental Sustainability

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Additional information of our 2022 Undergraduate Reserch and Engagement Symposium recipients and their nominators can be found on this slideshow: 2022 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium Awards

Teaching Award Descriptions

By clicking on this link you will find the descriptions of the University-wide Teaching Awards presented by the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy.