The Feed Catholic school standards released Book your tee time now Loyola’s Center for Catholic School Effectiveness, housed within the School The 27th annual Loyola Ramblers golf outing provides of Education, has released the first National Standards and Benchmarks for August 2, an opportunity to enjoy a round of golf at one of the top Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools, in collaboration with 2012 courses in the area, food, drink, and fun, all in support of the Roche Center for Catholic Education (Boston College) and the National Loyola athletics. Harborside Catholic Educational Association. The landmark document offers critical International INTERESTED IN PLAYING? school effectiveness standards to more than 7,000 schools across the country. Brian Sisson: 773.508.WOLF or [email protected] View the standards and benchmarks online. Golf Center, Chicago, IL • LUC.edu/athletics • catholicschoolstandards.org or LUC.edu/CCSE INSIDENEWS FOR FACULTY LOYOLA AND STAFF • MAY 2012 Cuneo Hall opens this summer uneo Hall officially opens its Each classroom has a user interface that OTHER PROJECTS AT LAKE SHORE CAMPUS doors this summer to host ori- alerts occupants when the building is in New student center • Madonna della Strada entation sessions for the Class of natural ventilation mode. “Our hope is that Due to construction of an Chapel • The chapel 2016. The four-story building, whenever people see this indicator light, underground service tunnel garden construction Clocated adjacent to the East Quad, sets the they will open up the windows,” says Kana linking the new center to will continue along the standard for the level of energy-efficiency in Wibbenmeyer, assistant VP for facilities. “If the Centennial Forum Stu- lakefront; it is scheduled to the University’s capital projects. everyone does that, it will only improve the dent Union, the pathway at reopen in August. With its LEED-Gold certification, Cuneo amount of air flow through the building.” the University’s gated west New residence halls • will use about 60 percent less energy than a Cuneo features 18 classrooms and office entrance will close and foot Three residence halls are set standard academic facility. The building has space on the fourth floor, which will be traffic will be redirected to to open in August 2012: Bel- a thermally broken exterior and natural ven- the new home of the Centers of Excellence. Loyola Avenue. larmine Hall, Messina Hall, tilation component, which allows occupants Watch LUC.edu/insideloyola for informa- Mundelein Center • and Marquette South. to turn off fans and cooling systems, operat- tion related to open houses. No classes in Mundelein ing the building naturally with no energy, during summer 2012. Loyola Progress • during fair-weather months. LUC.edu/loyolaprogress GET YOUR DAILY NEWS AND TOOLS AT LUC.EDU/INSIDELOYOLA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Local leaders tackle nd 142 commencement “The Family Business of Sports” 11 ceremonies Tackling the tender, often tenuous, issues of Dean’s Speaker Series hosted by Loyola’s School family and business was the focus of the evening of Business Administration and drew a packed as George H. McCaskey, chairman of the Chicago crowd of nearly 200. After a welcome from Dean Bears; Tom Ricketts, chairman of the Chicago Kathleen Getz, PhD, the event’s moderator, Keith Cubs; and Michael Alter, owner of the Chicago Lambrecht, PhD, director of the Sport Manage- Sky; came together to discuss “The Family Busi- ment program, peppered the powerhouse panel ness of Sports” at the Union League Club on with a slew of questions. 4 honorary degrees April 3. The event marked the 10th chapter in the For the class of 2012, their time studying at Loyola being awarded is coming to a close, and that means one thing: Commencement weekend. Commencement 3 alums are Commence- ceremonies will run May 10–12, the School of ment speakers, including Candace Asiedu (MD ’12) finds out she’ll be a family medicine resident at West Suburban Hospital Law ceremony will be on Saturday, May 19, and William Daley (BA ’70), in Oak Park, Illinois. the Stritch School of Medicine ceremony will be Justice Virginia M. Kendall held on June 3. In addition to ceremonies held at (JD ’92), and Thaddeus Gentile Arena, Mundelein Auditorium, and Navy STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Wong (BBA ’96) Pier Ballroom, Commencement 2012 will also be CLAss OF 2012 streamed online at the Loyola website. 10 ceremonies Meeting their match 3% Matched early • LUC.edu/commencement in the military streamed on the web On March 16, the atrium at the Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) was match filled with screams and tears of joy as 127 medical students learned the 39% Doing a primary locations of where they would see their first patients as MDs. care residency 1,224 1,776 “This is a day of opportunity. We don’t know what’s ahead,” says 24% Specializing Total number of Total number of 3 Commencement Dr. Linda Brubaker, dean of the Stritch School of Medicine, moments (Top areas in- graduate, law, and ceremonies that fea- before the students opened envelopes that would reveal where they undergraduate clude 8%–emer- ture a lone bagpiper had matched for their residency. “Wherever you go, whatever you do business students students who gency medicine; leading graduates to who have applied have applied for know that we have unconditional pride in you. We know that you will 6%–obstetrics/ for graduation graduation and from their seats be a success and bloom where you are planted, leaving each place gynecology) Pictured left to right: George H. McCaskey, Tom Ricketts, and Michael Alter better than when you arrived.” 68% Staying in Elected by the SSOM Class of 2012, Kevin Simpson, MD, received the Midwest award for outstanding clinical faculty, and Theresa Kristopaitis, MD, (43%–Illinois, TO MCCASKEY TO RICKEtts TO AltER received the award for outstanding basic science faculty. DAMEN AwARD WINNERS 17%–Loyola) What are the family requirements How do you maintain your How much attention do for working in the business? • privacy? • No one on the you pay to the press? Founders’ Dinner School of Law • We have finally nailed that down, planet has more strangers • I have a very different The 2012 Founders’ Dinner will be held Saturday, College of Arts & Sciences • Colonel (IL) Susan S. Sher (JD ’74) with the help of Loyola’s Family saying, “I am however many problem with the media. June 2, 2012, at Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus in the BOOK NOOK RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Business Center. Our family busi- years old, and you need to win There is frustration about remodeled Gentile Arena. The annual dinner, which J. N. Pritzker, IL ARNG, Stritch School of ness policy is that there are five before I die.” The media does a minimal coverage. But benefits scholarships, pays tribute to the men and (Retired) (BA ’79) Medicine • Dr. Patrick Understanding gender, Joint project aims at years of outside employment. If pretty good job; you set rules, when women’s sports are women who have shown commitment to strength- School of Business J. Stiff (MD ’75) culture, and consumers a zero waste facility there is an opening, and if a family treat them fairly, and they covered, the response is ening Loyola’s legacy as a superior institution of Administration • Marcella Niehoff member is qualified, they aren’t keep your privacy. great. higher education. Fourteen awards will be granted Mary A. Tolan (BBA ’82) School of Nursing How do commercials on TV, radio, the web, Loyola’s biodiesel program and Solutions to given any more consideration, at this year’s ceremony. • LUC.edu/founders and in magazines and newspapers affect Environmental Problems: Water students have School of • Dr. Carolyn Hope but they also aren’t given any less consumers? Associate professor Linda Tuncay collaborated on a research project within the Communication • Smeltzer (MSN ’77, consideration. More on the event • LUC.edu/mba Zayer, PhD, who teaches marketing in the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Judith Rice (BA ’81) EdD ’83) School of Business Administration, answers Policy to find an efficient way to clean and School of Continuing Institute of Pastoral this and more in her first edited book, Gender, recycle the water used in the biodiesel pro- & Professional Studies • Joseph Culture, and Consumer Behavior. duction process. More specifically, the project Loyola, Harvard join forces in Vietnam Studies • Thaddeus J. Paprocki (BA ’81, Co-edited with Cele Otnes, PhD, professor will further research and test constructed wet- Wong (BBA ’96) MPS ’85) in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- lands to determine the best way to clean the Loyola’s School of Business Administration is tive education programs, research projects, and 2012 AWARD RECIPIENts School of Social Work paign’s College of Business and renowned water for reuse. collaborating with Harvard University faculty MBA site-studies. As the only two American School of Education • Coffey Award • Dr. Kumiko Watanuki • Barbara J. Menard scholar in the area of consumer behavior and Since its launch, researchers and students and staff to expand its presence in Vietnam. Har- universities to make long-term commitments to Mary A. Hicks (MEd ’99) (BA ’84, MA ’87) (MSW ’94) ritual consumption, the book is a compilation have identified the beginning biological vard’s Kennedy School and Ash Center, which Vietnam, both hope to continue to explore ways The Graduate School Felice Award • Leonard Slotkowski Jr. of the latest research on gender, culture, and agents (wetlands) to clear up the water, which administers the Fulbright Economics Teaching in which stakeholders of Vietnam, Loyola, and • Woodrow W. Clark II consumer behavior. Chapters cover topics resulted in identifying possible means to Program, offers more than 15 years of experi- Harvard will be best served.