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  • Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination

    Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination

    Dr. Robyn Mallet’s new book examines research on how and when individuals do and don’t confront prejudice and the consequences of these decisions.
  • Examining Happiness

    Examining Happiness

    How can we promote happiness? Dr. Fred Bryant shares his research on savoring and tips on how to savor life's experiences. In addition, Dr. Becky Silton shares her work on utilizing EEG technology to look at how we can train our brains to process more positive thoughts.
  • Savoring the Day

    Savoring the Day

    Dr. Fred Bryant shares the benefits of overcoming negativity.
  • Understanding the Republican Morality Gap in Dealing with the Children of Undocumented Immigrants at the Border

    Understanding the Republican Morality Gap in Dealing with the Children of Undocumented Immigrants at the Border

    Dr. James Garbarino of the Psychology Department offers insight into the current political circumstances happening in the US.
  • Minding the Gender Gap

    Minding the Gender Gap

    Dr. Rebecca Silton chairs the Women in Science Education Committee, which aims to encourage more women to pursue careers in STEM fields
  • Let's party! Loyola alumna mixes business with pleasure as a CEO

    Let's party! Loyola alumna mixes business with pleasure as a CEO

    CAS alumna Britt Whitfield's event management business is booming. The Revel Group has been named one of the top 5,000 fastest-growing companies in INC. magazine for the last five years and, most recently, she made Crain’s Chicago Business Top 40 under 40 for 2017.
  • A Conversation on Police Torture

    A Conversation on Police Torture

    A panel presentation by police torture survivor Darrell Cannon and attorney G. Flint Taylor on police violence, civil rights, and government misconduct.
  • Moral Differences Between Pro- and Anti-Vaccine Parents
    Faculty Research

    Moral Differences Between Pro- and Anti-Vaccine Parents

    Parents in the United States who are hesitant about vaccinating their children are strongly concerned with the moral values of purity and liberty, reports a Nature Human Behaviour paper published by professor Jeff Huntsinger and colleagues. The study suggests that information campaigns that incorporate these values, rather than focusing on ideas of fairness or preventing harm, may be more effective in convincing parents to have their children vaccinated. Click below to read a story from The Washington Post covering the paper and for a link to download the original paper in Nature Human Behaviour.
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  • Psychology Graduate Student Dakari Quimby wins 2017-2018 President's Medallion
    Graduate Student Recognition

    Psychology Graduate Student Dakari Quimby wins 2017-2018 President's Medallion

    Clinical psychology graduate student Dakari Quimby received the 2017-2018 Loyola University Chicago President’s Medallion. Dean Regan recommended Dakari for this prestigious award because he exemplifies a combination of scholarship, leadership and service. In addition, he is viewed by many in and outside the university as a person who manifests leadership in community service and organizations. He received the award from President Rooney and Dean Regan at the President's Ball.
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  • A Model Program for Reducing Water Waste on Campuses
    Faculty Projects

    A Model Program for Reducing Water Waste on Campuses

    As collegians head back to campus this fall it means campus water use will spike, so ISTC has released a video on a model program that dramatically cut water waste with a student-directed behavior change campaign. Loyola University Chicago implemented its “Gallons Saved and Shared” project with the help of a grant from ISTC’s Billion Gallon Challenge. Student interns and volunteers planned and executed fixture upgrades across much of the campus and designed an awareness/behavioral campaign with the expertise of psychology majors. In addition, Robyn Mallett, associate professor of psychology, and her colleagues were able to study the responses to produce scientific insights. A college campus is an ideal setting to build a culture of sustainability that can follow graduates throughout their lives. The experience of “Gallons Saved and Shared” is a model that can be considered to produce conservation results on other campuses, said Aaron N. Durnbaugh, Loyola’s director of sustainability.
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  • The Department of Psychology and a top Sociology graduate student received the new Samuel Attoh Award for diversity and inclusion
    Department Recognition

    The Department of Psychology and a top Sociology graduate student received the new Samuel Attoh Award for diversity and inclusion

    Find out how these honorees promote and foster diversity within Loyola's academic community as first time recipients of the Samuel Attoh award.
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  • Researcher, teacher, mentor
    Ignatius Loyola Award

    Researcher, teacher, mentor

    Psychology professor Noni Gaylord-Harden, PhD, is all three—and the recipient of this year’s Ignatius Loyola Award.