LMU Magazine

07/07/2025

LMU’s own John Dorsey — marine biology professor emeritus and longtime Surf Club mentor — has been riding SoCal waves for 50 years. See what he considers to be the top 10 beaches on the West Coast.

https://bit.ly/LMUMBeach

06/26/2025

LMU Magazine just won big at the L.A. Press Club Awards—for 3 pieces from the fall 2024 issue! Haven’t read them yet? Now’s the time 📖

https://bit.ly/LMUM2024Digital

06/20/2025

President Trump has relied on executive orders, some say over-relied. Prof. Michael A. Genovese looks at the wisdom of that policy, and whether Trump is hurting his own cause.

https://bit.ly/LMUMConstitution

06/13/2025

Soccer’s Gold Cup starts this weekend. Is one reason for disappointing results from the U.S. national men’s team rooted in a pay-for-play approach to developing youth talent? Read what LMU coaches have to say.

Disappointing showings by the U.S. Men’s National Team may lie in the pay-to-play dynamic that dominates U.S. youth soccer, say LMU soccer coaches.

06/12/2025

As the mass detainment of immigrants continues across Los Angeles, the impact and lessons of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II are still with us. Read that history in the latest LMU Magazine. https://bit.ly/LMUMIncarceration

06/06/2025

The new issue of LMU Magazine is on its way to you, and it's full of amazing stories!

Which feature story are you going to read first?
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05/30/2025

Coming off the press and into your mailbox soon!

02/20/2025

In February 1942, an executive order by the U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, authorized the arrest, forcible relocation, and imprisonment of 120,000 people of Japanese descent. This short piece describes the opposition to the American concentration camps by Edward Whelan, S.J., president of what is now Loyola Marymount University, who spoke up vigorously against the injustice and took steps to redress the wrong.

LMU Magazine is the university magazine of Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Los Angeles, California.

02/18/2025

Richard Frishman’s photography show, “Ghosts of Segregation,” documents important sites in the history of slavery and racism in America and is on display now at the LMU Laband Art Gallery. Read our interview with him and B. Brian Foster.

https://bit.ly/LMUmLaband

02/11/2025

The January 2025 wildfires and recovery will shape life in LA for years to come. Fernando Guerra, director of the LMU Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, walks us through the current and future impacts.

https://bit.ly/LMUmFernandoGPod

01/09/2025

Prof. Michael Genovese, expert on the U.S. presidency, looks back at the legacy of the late President Jimmy Carter.

https://bit.ly/LMUmJC

11/19/2024

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, L.A.’s freeways are the vascular system to the beating heart of this city. Freeways transformed our humble town into a global metropolis but meteoric growth came with a cost, decimating tight-knit communities, mostly of color, to make way for miles of overlapping concrete. Nate Sessoms, assistant professor of urban planning, and other LMU faculty give us the history.

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