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School also has partnered with the Illinois Humanities Council to pilot a program designed to place students with paying assistantships in non-academic settings. Philosophy doctoral candidate Nicoletta Ruane, who is the first recipient of the assistantship in the field, is working for 10 months with Illinois Humanities. She is responsible for helping to develop a new community-based program called Illinois Speaks. The goal of Illinois Speaks is to provide “resources to support monthly small group discussions within communities throughout the state. These discussions will focus on current events and the impact of these events on our communities. They will be led by paid facilitators from the community who have been trained by Illinois Humanities and who will have access to materials focusing on media representations “What are you going to do with that?” Talk to any humanities doctoral student and he or she will be able to rattle off multiple instances when they’ve been asked to justify the point of their degree. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) launched an initiative over the summer to help make answering that question a little easier in the future. The NEH “Next Generation Humanities PhD” project awarded 25 planning grants of $25,000 each and three implementation grants of $350,000 each to help institutions plan and implement changes to graduate education that will broaden the career preparation of a PhD student beyond a career in the academy. “The academic- focused future we’re accustomed to training graduate students for is disappearing,” said NEH Chairman William D. Adams. “If graduate programs wish to make a case for the continuation of graduate education in the humanities, they’re going to have to think about the professional futures of their students in entirely different ways.” The Graduate School received a $25,000 planning grant from NEH for a series of efforts grouped under the title Charting Career Pathways: Enhancing and Sustaining Doctoral Education in the Humanities. These related projects will be directed by Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin, the Interim Dean of the Graduate School. Focusing on data gathered from current LUC graduate students in the humanities, Charting Career Pathways will create workshops, internship opportunities, and other forms of career assistance based on the needs of our graduate students. Central to the project are workshops and in the field experiences. In partnership with the School of Communications, the Graduate School will be hosting a series of workshops designed to help humanities students take their critical thinking skills and develop ease in speaking about topics outside of the narrow focus of their dissertation research. The Graduate School will also be developing a series of workshops designed more broadly around the development of professional skills that will be applicable outside the academy as well as foster a better understand the non-academic hiring process. The Graduate Volume 8, Issue 2 Fall 2016 THE GRADUATE SCHOOL QUARTERLY Graduate School Launches Humanities PhD Project NEH Grant 1 APA 2016 2 New Graduate School Staff 2 Fall 2016 Professional Workshops 3 Thesis/Dissertation Support Group 3 Program Profile: Spanish 4 Key Dates & Deadlines 4 Student Accolades 5 Message from the Interim Dean 7 Inside this Issue

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Page 1: Graduate School Launches Humanities PhD Projectsummer to help make answering that question a little easier in the future. The NEH “Next Generation Humanities PhD” project awarded

School also has partnered with the Illinois Humanities Council to pilot a program designed to place students with paying assistantships in non-academic settings.

Philosophy doctoral candidate Nicoletta Ruane, who is the first recipient of the assistantship in the field, is working for 10 months with Illinois Humanities. She is responsible for helping to develop a new community-based program called Illinois Speaks. The goal of Illinois Speaks is to provide “resources to support monthly small group discussions within communities throughout the state. These discussions will focus on current events and the impact of these events on our communities. They will be led by paid facilitators from the community who have been trained by Illinois Humanities and who will have access to materials focusing on media representations

“What are you going to do with that?” Talk to any humanities doctoral student and he or she will be able to rattle off multiple instances when they’ve been asked to justify the point of their degree. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) launched an initiative over the summer to help make answering that question a little easier in the future. The NEH “Next Generation Humanities PhD” project awarded 25 planning grants of $25,000 each and three implementation grants of $350,000 each to help institutions plan and implement changes to graduate education that will broaden the career preparation of a PhD student beyond a career in the academy. “The academic-focused future we’re accustomed to training graduate students for is disappearing,” said NEH Chairman William D. Adams. “If graduate programs wish to make a case for the continuation of graduate education in the humanities, they’re going to have to think about the professional futures of their students in entirely different ways.”

The Graduate School received a $25,000 planning grant from NEH for a series of efforts grouped under the title Charting Career Pathways: Enhancing and Sustaining Doctoral Education in the Humanities. These related projects will be directed by Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin, the Interim Dean of the Graduate School. Focusing on data gathered from current LUC graduate students in the humanities, Charting Career Pathways will create workshops, internship opportunities, and other forms of career assistance based on the needs of our graduate students.

Central to the project are workshops and in the field experiences. In partnership with the School of Communications, the Graduate School will be hosting a series of workshops designed to help humanities students take their critical thinking skills and develop ease in speaking about topics outside of the narrow focus of their dissertation research. The Graduate School will also be developing a series of workshops designed more broadly around the development of professional skills that will be applicable outside the academy as well as foster a better understand the non-academic hiring process. The Graduate

Volume 8, Issue 2 Fall 2016

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL QUARTERLYGraduate School Launches Humanities PhD Project

NEH Grant 1

APA 2016 2

New Graduate School Staff 2

Fall 2016 Professional Workshops 3

Thesis/Dissertation Support Group 3

Program Profile: Spanish 4

Key Dates & Deadlines 4

Student Accolades 5

Message from the Interim Dean 7

Inside this Issue

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of current events provided by Illinois Humanities.”

Dr. Mooney-Melvin spoke with History doctoral student Ruby Oram about Charting Career Pathways:

What are the goals for the project “Charting Career Pathways”?This project has 6 major goals. We want to create opportunities for our students to see themselves as possessing multiple career pathways. An important part of student success revolves around advising and mentoring and this project hopes to strengthen faculty ability to discuss multiple career pathways. We hope to work with the career planning and placement center to develop a robust career guidance program for graduate students. We want our students to be able to communicate with a wide range of audiences. Finally, we want to give students experience outside of the academy while in their graduate programs. Secondary goals include shaping student recruitment messaging to reflect multiple

career pathways and to explore curricular opportunities.

Why is it important to provide doctoral students in the humanities with multiple career pathways?

Doctoral education offers students the opportunity to gain both breadth and depth in a discipline. They also acquire and hone a wide variety of skills and abilities that can serve them well wherever their interests take them. While many students may find academic positions, others will take a different path. It is our responsibility to offer all students the ability to appreciate the range of opportunities available to them.

Charting Career Pathways allows the Graduate School to be part of a larger national initiative to enhance doctoral education in the humanities as well as provide useful resources for our students and faculty. We look forward to a very productive year ahead!

NEH Grant, continued

Carly Tindall at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.

New Graduate School Staff

APA 2016

The American Psychological Association awarded a blue ribbon to Carly Tindall, School Psychology PhD student, based on reviews of research proposals submitted to APA Divison 16 with graduate students listed as first authors. The award was granted for having one of the highest rated poster proposals.

The title of the study, done in conjunction with Pamela Fenning, PhD was, “Exploring the Needs of Youth on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Perspectives of Key Stakeholders”. This study explores the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of youth involved with or at risk of being involved in the juvenile justice system. The findings of interviews with key stakeholders (e.g., school-based professionals, juvenile justice professionals, parents, students) directly connected with or advocating for youth associated with the school-to-prison pipeline trajectory were discussed. The data was collected from cross-disciplinary participants to gain a more holistic understanding of the needs of youth within this trajectory and to learn specifically about the racial and ethnic disproportionality within the school-to-prison pipeline and how school psychologists can work to combat it.

Michelle Cerullo has been hired as our new Awards and Communications Coordinator. She replaces Stephanie Augustine, who left us in May for an exciting new job opportunity. Michelle joins us from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she worked in the Graduate Office of the English Department. Her background is primarily in graduate admissions, but she also brings experience in web content management, graduate student success, and creative problem solving. Michelle also brings a great deal of enthusiasm to the job, both for graduate education and for superheroes. (Feel free to stop by Michelle’s office to say hi, talk about Batman, or mock her for excessive use of exclamation marks on the Graduate School’s social media.)

Please contact Michelle ([email protected]) with any questions concerning fellowships, assistantships, travel awards, or other funding. Alternatively, please contact Michelle if you have anything to submit to this newsletter, the website, Facebook, Twitter, or the weekly grad school announcement e-mails! She’s very happy to help out in either of her capacities, or point you toward the correct person. Michelle Cerullo, Awards and Communications

Coordinator

Dr. Mooney-Melvin (center) with student speaker Monica Feli Castillo (left) and Dr. Brian Schmisek (right) at the 2016 Graduate School Commencement.

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Fall 2016

Professional WorkshopsDigital Humanities Introduction

Thursday, October 13th, 3:30 – 4:00pm, Information Commons 120, Lake Shore CampusIf you love the humanities and technology, or if you’re wondering how technology connects to the humanities, then this is the workshop for you.

We’ll learn about how technology and computing intersect with the humanities, and we’ll discover exciting new projects and ways to get involved in digital humanities work. Questions may be sent to Will Kent ([email protected]).

Brown Bag: Graduate Mentoring Relationships Thursday, October 20, 4:00 - 5:00pm, Graduate Student Lounge, 308 Cudahy Library, Lake Shore Campus

Not sure how to make your mentorship relationship work? Join our panel of graduate students as we discuss the importance of good mentoring. Get tips for establishing a successful mentoring relationship & strategies for dealing with conflict. Light refreshments will be served

Working with the Institutional Review Board (RSVP here) Wednesday, October 26th, 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Granada 420, Lake Shore Campus

Graduate Students planning to conduct “Human Subject Research” should attend this information filled workshop. You will receive pointers for preparing your proposal and submitting it to the Loyola University IRB.

Topics covered include: The Types of Research Required to Submit to the IRB, Consent & Training Requirements, Determining the Risk Level, Determining the Type of Review Required, Submission Procedures, Checking Submission and CITI Training Status, Minimize the Risk to Subjects, and Tips and Suggestions for Preparing a Proposal: Examples of Good and Bad Ideas

Andrew Ellis, Assistant Director for Research Compliance, will conduct the workshop.

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KEY DATES AND DEADLINES FOR FALL

October 21 Last day to apply to take the foreign language examination to fulfill the research tool requirements

November 1 Last day to submit final approved electronic copies of dissertation or thesis for December degree conferral

November 4 Foreign language examination, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Graduate School Of-fice, Granada Center, 4th floor, LSC

November 7 Spring 2017 Registration begins

November 23-26 Thanksgiving Break: No classes

December 1 Last day to file an Application to Receive a Degree for May 2017 degree conferral

December 1 Extension of time requests for Spring 2017 due at the Graduate School Office, Granada Center, 4th floor, LSC

December 10 Fall Semester classes end

December 12-17 Final Examinations (No exams on Sunday) Note: Wednesday is a study day. No daytime exams will be held.

December 15 Last day to file a Late Application to Receive a Degree for May 2017 de-gree conferral ($25 late fee applies)

Eloquentia perfecta

Jesuit education is steeped in a tradition that reaches back five centuries, to the flourishing of Renaissance humanism in sixteenth-century Europe. The humanists immersed themselves in the study

of language, rhetoric, grammar and literature, with the aim of achieving eloquentia perfecta. Their ability to speak and write well would reflect their values as good citizens who stood to uphold the common good.

The graduate program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of Loyola University Chicago rests on this tradition. Candidates for the Masters degree in Spanish, as well as students of our new five year BA/MA in Spanish (2016), immerse themselves in the language, the literatures and the cultures of the Hispanic world with the same goal: eloquentia perfecta. Not only do they strive to master the Spanish language, they study the past and present of the Hispanic world with the aim of understanding it and its peoples more fully. While our graduate students write and research in the areas of linguistics, literature and culture, they also teach undergraduates, translate tax documents for Latin American immigrants in the United States and wrestle with the complex issue of societal injustice. For example, in February of 2016 our graduate students hosted and participated in a symposium on the theme of social justice in Hispanic literatures.

As our students complete their Masters degree in Spanish, they discover how language and cultural competency begins to open many doors. Some further their graduate education by earning doctorates in Spanish, History, and International Education, while others use their degree to teach Spanish at all levels. Graduates of our program also start careers in business and social work, while others use their linguistic proficiency to gain employment as translators and interpreters. Whatever career path they take, all of our graduates agree that the study of language and culture leads to adventure. But as they go on to face the challenges of an imperfect world, they aim to engage it by relying on the tradition of linguistic and cultural eloquence that has been passed on to them as students of a Jesuit university.

Graduate Program Director

I came to Loyola from Oxford University, where I earned a doctorate in the literature of early modern Spain in 2013. One year later, I was appointed Graduate Program Director, and have taught graduate seminars on the history and literature of the Spanish Golden Age. Having the opportunity to teach both undergraduate and graduate students at Loyola is exciting to me, and as the Graduate Program Director I enjoy being able to guide graduate students toward the completion of their Masters degree at a school so steeped in tradition, especially as we envision how to incorporate Strategic Plan 2020 into our curriculum.

SPANISHBy D. Scott Hendrickson, SJ PhDAssistant Professor of Spanish and Graduate Program Director

PROGRAM PROFILE

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Graduation Information

SessionsMonday, October 17; 4-5pm; Cuneo

Hall 109OR

Wednesday, November 9; 5-6pm;

Cuneo Hall 002

If you plan to finish your degree for either

December 2016, May 2017, or August

2017, you should attend one of these information session which will go over

the eligibility process for conferral and

also to participate in the May 2016 commencement

ceremony. We will offer several sessions both Fall and Spring

semester.

Attendance is limited to graduate

students in The Graduate School.

Click here to RSVP.

GRADUATE STUDENT ACCOLADESThis section features select student accomplishments that have taken place since our previous newsletter.

Student Publications

Irby, C. (SOCL-PHD). “Church” in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults. Religions. July 2016.

Burgart, A. (BEHP-MA). Randomized n-of-1 Trials: Quality Improvement, Research, or Both? Pediatrics. July 2016.

Clarke, M. (BEHP-MA). Patient Ownership and the Millennial Learner. The American Journal of Bioethics. July 2016.

Etingen, B. (PSYS-PHD). Perceptions of Chronic Illness Care Among Veterans With Multiple Chronic Conditions. Military Medicine. May 2016.

CoatarPeter, P. (SOCL-MA). Response to Questionnaire Regarding the Rights of the Child and Hazardous Substances and Wastes. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. April 2016.

Goldberg, A. (PSYS-PHD). Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation. Journal of General Internal Medicine. June 2016.

Henry, B. (BIOE-DBE). A systematic literature review on the ethics of palliative sedation. Current Opinions in Supportive and Palliative Care. July 2016.

Herron, P. (BIOE-DBE). Ethical Implications of Social Stigma Associated with the Promotion and Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention. LGBT Health. April 2016.

Hilt, E. (MIIM-PHD). The Clinical Urine Culture: Enhanced Techniques Improve Detection of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. May 2016.

Munoz, M. (BIOE-DBE). Performing, and emotionally surviving, notifications of death to a patient’s family. Journal of Emergency Medicine Services. July 2016.

Student Accolades continue on Page 6

Price, T. (MIIM-PHD). The Clinical Urine Culture: Enhanced Techniques Improve Detection of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. May 2016.

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Job Placements

Tuttle, S. (SOCL-PHD). Ocejo, R.E. (2014) Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City. Reviewed by Steven Tuttle, Loyola University Chicago. Urban Geography Research Group. April 2016.Vearrier, L. (BEHP-MA). Failure of the Current Advance Care Planning Paradigm: Advocating for a Communications-Based Approach. HEC Forum. July 2016.

Young, S. (SOCL-PHD). Conn, S. (2014) Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Sean L. Young, Loyola University Chicago. Royal Geographical Society. April 2016.

Di Lorenzo, A. (HIST-PHD). Fellow. Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery. September 2016.Drogalis, C. (PHIL-PHD). Philosophy Teacher. Stanford Online High School. August 2016.

Hicks, K. (PHAR-PHD). Post Doctoral Research Associate. Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. May 2016.

Gu, H. (ASTA-MS). Biostatistician. WUSTL, School of Medicine . June 2016.

Conference Presentations

Cossyleon, J. (SOCL-PHD). Faith-based Community Organizing for and among the Formerly Incarcerated. American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Campbell, K. (BIOE-DBE). Food is Medicine Follow-Up Study: Literacy Across Race, Income and Neighborhood. American Public Health Association. Denver, Colorado. October 2016.

Casarez, C. (PHIL-PHD). Which World Exists? Comments on ‘Husserl and Wittgenstein: The World’s Justifiability and the Logical Model.’ American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. San Francisco, CA. April 2016.

Bozeman, R. (PSYS-PHD). Training Predicts Confrontation Responses & Confidence Differently for Whites & People of Color. Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL. May 2016.

Craig, L. (ENGL-PHD). Elusive Metonymy: Ideas for Filming Carker’s Teeth in Dombey and Son. The Dickens Society. Reykjavík, Iceland. July 2016.

Drust, W. (SOCL-PHD). Scrubbing In: The Role of Industry in Robotic Surgery. European Association for Science and Technology Studies. Barcelona, Spain. September 2016.

Duncan, C. (SOCL-PHD). Teacher Evaluation Metrics. Lake Forest District 67 Evaluation Commitee. Lake Forest, IL. April 2016.

Enright, L. (ENGL-PHD). The Awful Daring of a Moment’s Surrender. Conference on Christianity & Literature. California Baptist University. May 2016.

Fleming, E. (MIIM-PHD). The use of TCR gene-modified T cells to mediate improved pro-inflammatory responses leading to systemic anti-tumor immunity. International Congress of Immunology. Melbourne, Australia. August 2016.

Grayczyk, J. (MIIM-PHD). Staphylococcus aureus suppression of immune responses via metabolic cofactors. Gordon Research Seminar- Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity. Waterville Valley, NH. July 2016.

Hamilton, H. (PSYS-PHD). Commitment concerns: Effects of self and partner daily negative events and self-esteem on relationship commitment. Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL. May 2016.

Hernandez Vidal, N. (SOCL-PHD). Unpacking the Past to Anticipate the Future: The Science of Resilience Post‐War Communities. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Barcelona, Spain. September 2016.

Herron, P. (BIOE-DBE). Assessing your digital footpring: Social media and professional identity. 4th Annual APHC Conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2016.

Hilt, E. (MIIM-PHD). Overactive Bladder Phenotype Observed in Urothelial Cells Treated with Bacterial Supernatant. IPA World Congress. Chicago IL. May 2016.

Irby, C. (SOCL-PHD). Christian Marriage in a Culture of Divorce: Tension of Individualism and Community in Conservative Religious Premarital Counseling. Southern Sociological Society. Atlanta, GA. April 2016.

Key, W. (SOWK-PHD). From local to cross-national evidence of psychological self-sufficiency. Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development Annual Conference. Seoul, South Korea. June 2016.

Kinsinger, F. (BEHP-MA). Use of social media and online communication: Current state of the evidence regarding “eProfessionalism.” 4th Annual APHC Conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2016.

Manni, D. (PHIL-PHD). Cultivating a Dog’s Heart: Plato on Non-Rational Motivation for Studying Texts. Association of Core Text and Courses. Atlanta, GA. April 2016.

Medina-Maldonado, C. (THEO-MA). Constructing an Environmental Ethic from The Doctrine and Covenants, a Latter-day Saint Scriptural Volume. Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies & Dialogue at Nazareth College. Rochester, NY. May 2016.

Mettelman, R. (MIIM-PHD). Separating Activities of a Multifunctional Coronavirus Enzyme. The 35th American Society for Virology Annual Meeting. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. June 2016.

Rubin, M. (BEHP-MA). Should we offer blood transfusions as a palliative therapy? The American Journal of Bioethics. July 2016.

Tatum, A. (CPSY-PHD). Goal setting and treatment adherence among patients with chronic illness and depressive symptoms: Applying a patient-centered approach. Global Journal of Health Science. June 2016.

Miller, K. (SOCL-MA). Building Peace in Chicago’s South Side: Peer Mentoring as a Sustainable Solution. 2016 Notre Dame Peace Conference. Notre Dame, IN. April 2016.

Molby, B. (ENGL-PHD). Beyond Ut Pictura Poesis: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris’s Shared Aesthetic. Reading Art: Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry. Birmingham, AL. May 2016.

Patil, G. (MBIO-MS). Protein Kinase C Delta is a Central Regulator of DNA Damage Responses. Society for Investigative Dermatology. Scottsdale, AZ. May 2016.

Petranovich, S. (PHIL-PHD). Husserl and Community: Practical Intentionality, Political Interests. Nordic Society of Phenomenology. Reykjavik, Iceland. April 2016.

Tanriverdi, S. (SOCL-PHD). The Rise of Islamic Modernism in the West: A Multiple Modernities Perspective. 3rd International Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society. Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. June 2016.

Valdes, A. (CEPS-PHD). Education, Networks and the Rise of the Professional Female during the Nineteenth Century. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Oxford, England. September 2016.

Vearrier, L. (BEHP-MA). The ubiquitous smart phone and professionalism. Midwest Nursing Research Society. Philadelphia, PA. April 2016.

White, K. (MIIM-PHD). The Clinical Urine Culture: Enhanced Techniques Improve Detection of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms. J Clin Microbiol. May 2016.

Henry, B. (BIOE-DBE). Senior Ethicist. Sunnybrook Health Sciences. July 2016.

Kotowski, P. (HIST-PHD). Associate Director of Prospect Research. Loyola Academy. May 2016.Kuang, A. (ASTA-MS). Research Data Analyst. Northwestern. July 2016.

Lin, B. (PIOL-PHD). Fellow. Johns Hopkins University. September 2016.

Norrington, S. (ASTA-MS). SAS Programmer. Summit Industries Medical Devices. May 2016.

Spear, T. (ICB-PHD). Fellow. Loyola Medical Center. April 2016.

Plunk, K. (MATH-MS). Math Teacher & Volleyball Coach. Mansfield Timberview High School. August 2016.

Squires, S. (BEHP-MA). Vice President, Mission and Ethics. Mercy Health. June 2016.

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Volume 8, Issue 2

The Graduate School Lake Shore Campus 1032 W. Sheridan Road Granada Center, Ste. 400 Chicago, IL 60626 773-508-3396 [email protected]

The Graduate School Health Sciences Campus 2160 S. First Avenue SSOM, Room 400 Maywood, IL 60153 708-216-3531

Managing Editor: Michelle Cerullo

ContributorsDr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Dr. D. Scott Hendrickson, and Ruby Oram

We invite you to contact us with any information that you wish to be shared with the entire Graduate School, such as information about our outstanding students, faculty members, research initiatives, or anything else that might help us improve how we spread the word about graduate education at Loyola University. Please send your thoughts and submissions for the Graduate School Quarterly to [email protected].

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As a new academic year opens, it is marked by a keen sense of anticipation. We welcome new students, ready to embark on the next stage of their educational journey. We reconnect with current students emerging from a summer marked by internships, research, teaching experiences, classes, and enthusiasm for the new year.

As the lead article of this newsletter indicates, the Graduate School received one of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) planning grants that are focused on re-envisioning and enhancing doctoral education in the humanities. Along with our sister Jesuit institution, Fordham University, we are one of 25 planning grant projects. NEH project directors for this funding initiative and the Council of Graduate Schools have created a Next Gen PhD consortium and we connect monthly to share resources and information of use to our students and humanities faculty. One of our Humanities alumna’s, Dr. Catherine R. Maybrey (History 2005), will be joining us this month to work with students and our Career Planning and Placement Office to generate resources for Humanities students interested in multiple career pathways. For the last six years Catherine has worked with graduate students and alumni from McMaster University in Canada and in her on private practice – CM Coaching Services – to help students, new professionals, and professionals in transition navigate career exploration, job searching, and professional development planning.

We congratulate Thomas Gallagher, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, who received the Council of Graduate School Programs Graduate Faculty Member of the Year award at the 2016 Graduate School and Institute of Pastoral Studies May 2016 commencement. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the Graduate School in the areas of research, teaching, and service. Dr. Gallagher was selected for this award in recognition of his significant accomplishments in the areas of teaching, mentorship, support of graduate students, and scholarship. Dr. Gallagher has mentored and supervised a large number of graduate student theses and dissertations and is also recognized as an excellent teacher. He has served on a variety of committees, including the Admissions Committee and directs the Virology Journal Club. Dr. Gallagher maintains an active research program and has numerous publications in prestigious journals such as Nature and the Journal of Virology. In nominating him, Dr. Adam Driks articulated his effectiveness as a teacher, one who combines rigor in the classroom with an approach that makes complex information accessible to his students and comments from his students attest to his success as a teacher and mentor. Dr. Karen Visik captured the essence of his vocation: “Dr. Gallagher holds high ideals for the responsibilities and activities of graduate faculty with respect to our mission in training and graduating high quality students.”

On November 3, the Graduate School, the Stritch School of Medicine, and the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing will celebrate St. Albert’s Day. St. Albert’s Day, held at the Health Sciences campus, showcases research. I encourage you to attend and explore the presentations and posters as well as find out who will be named the junior and senior scientists of the year! St. Albert’s Day honors St. Albert Magnus, a scientist, theologian, and philosopher. A prolific writer and researcher, St. Albert stressed the importance of experimentation and investigation.

Grace Stevens, (English) is the 2016-2017 President of the Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC). The Council represents Graduate School students. It plays an important role in building community among all of our students and across our campuses. The Council supports graduate student research and service. Find out more about upcoming events by contacting [email protected].

Have a great Fall semester!

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Interim Dean The Graduate School

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, PhD Interim Dean of the Graduate School

FROM THE DEAN’S OFFICE