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Loyola Jesuits honored during Feast of St. Ignatius

On Sunday, July 31, Jesuits around the world celebrate the feast of the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola University New Orleans, one of 28 Jesuit institutions of higher education in the U.S., joins in this celebration.

Several members of the Loyola University Jesuit community, including President the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., will be honored this weekend at a special Mass commemorating milestones of service to the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church. The Mass takes place this Sunday, the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Jesuits of the New Orleans Province will gather for the Jesuit Jubilee Mass at 3 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church. After Mass, the celebration will continue with a reception at The Roosevelt featuring live jazz and a menu of favorite southern dishes and drinks.

The Rev. Roland J. Lesseps, S.J., emeritus professor of biological sciences, will be honored for 60 years of service to the Society of Jesus.

The Rev. Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J., Ph.D. , philosophy professor, and the Rev. Edward B. Arroyo, S.J., Ph.D. , research associate with the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola and rector at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., will both be recognized for their 50 years of service to the Society of Jesus. The Rev. Leo A. Nicoll, S.J. , associate professor emeritus of history at Loyola, and the Rev. Robert J. Ratchford, S.J., former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola, will be recognized for their 50 years as priests.

President Wildes will be honored for his 25 years of priesthood, and the Rev. R. Bentley Anderson, S.J., Ph.D. , a Loyola Board of Trustees member and associate professor at Fordham University, will be honored for his 25 years of service to the Society of Jesus.

Lesseps is a native New Orleanian and Jesuit High School alumnus. For many years, he was a missionary at the University of Zambia and worked as a professor of biology and agriculture at Kasisi Agricultural Training Center in Lusaka. Before moving there, he was a professor of biology and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Loyola. He is currently a member of the Ignatius Residence community where he is assigned to pray for the Church and Society.

The Science of Research: Students ... - Loyola University New Orleans

While the typical undergraduate student has the opportunity to achieve many great things during his or her academic career, stating on your resume that you assisted in the recovery of an endangered species, contributed to an article published in a peer-reviewed journal, or performed a theoretical investigation into general relativity and cosmology is anything but typical. Yet, Loyola University New Orleans students have been doing just that, as well as performing many other impressive feats thanks to the undergraduate research opportunities offered to them through the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences. And not only are they making headlines as students, but Loyola graduates are going on to impressive careers in the sciences as well.

The Department of Biological Sciences provides students with a wide choice of experiences and opportunities in the life sciences—from medicine, to the environment, to basic and applied research in botany, ecology and evolutionary biology, marine biology, microbiology, and molecular biology. A central focus of the department is to engage students in the study of life through active learning in the classroom and through collaborative research in the laboratory and field. The department states that “perhaps the most necessary skills of a biologist are an inquisitive outlook and enthusiastic curiosity,” and those skills are indeed utilized by the students when they decide to pursue research opportunities with the faculty. Biological sciences faculty’s research programs address basic and applied questions and range from understanding the molecular basis of disease to detecting effects of climate change on entire ecosystems.

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