Graduate Student Summit and Awards

GSLMU | Over 60 LMU graduate students, staff and faculty joined virtually for the third annual Graduate Student Summit.  Ten graduate students represented LMU School of Education, LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and Loyola Law School. The Graduate Student Summit also recognized the new GSLMU leadership board and recipients of the 2019-20 Graduate Student Awards. Research presentations were from a wide range of study including; bilingual education, artificial intelligence and Yoga studies.

GSLMU President Chelsea Kwan introduced the evening and mc-ed as each presenter transitioned to their slides. GSLMU Vice President Ryanne Martucci moderated questions from the audience. In addition to the presentations, the Graduate Student Summit also recognized the newly elected 2020-21 GSLMU leadership board. GSLMU director of recognitions Yuletpsi Barreto organized the GSLMU award process and coordinated efforts to ensure graduate students could attend and view the zoom event.

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President – Gabrielle Szlachta-McGinn
Vice President – Taina Rodriguez-Berardi
Chief Communication Officer – Kristen Lester
Chief Financial Officer – Anthony Mangar

Senators:

LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts – Leo Mendoza
LMU College of Business Administration – Evanne Drucker
Loyola Law School – Amie Gonzalez
LMU School of Education – Bryan Froderman

Finally, the Graduate Student Summit also recognized the recipients of the 2019-20 Graduate Student Awards.

The Education of the Whole Person Award – A graduate who has demonstrated self-reflection throughout the school year and dedicated themselves to not only learning in the classroom, but to continue to grow physically, socially, psychologically, morally, culturally, and religiously/spiritually.

Recipients of the Education of the Whole Person Award are:

•Smitty Dukes
•Johnny Martinez
•Alexandria Mendez
•Michael Tuxhorn
The Encouragement of Learning Award – A graduate student who demonstrates academic excellence and the ability to collaborate with other students to achieve open and honest discussion.

Recipients of the Encouragement of Learning Award are:

•Taylor Aguilar
•Avery Christmas
•Brandon Estrella
•Max Gleiser
•Luke Hart-Moynihan
•Michael McCurdy
•Krushan Naik
•Coady Spaeth
•Sihua Wang
The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice Award – A graduate student who has demonstrated a dedication to transform unjust social structures with empathy, compassion, reflection, and sensitivity.
Recipients of the Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice Award are:
•Yousef Abdeen
•Eden Daniels
•Anthony Ertle
•Sydney Minckler
•Cecilia Sanchez

Each award winner will receive a medal of accomplishment that will be mailed to their residence. Thank you to all those who presented. Congratulations to the award winners and Go Lions!

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