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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Loyola graduate 3D prints face shields for local hospitals

Jillian Oddo May 28, 2020

Due to COVID-19, hospitals around the U.S. are in need of masks and face shields and one recent Loyola graduate, Baasel Syed, A'20, is using university resources to help provide help to local New Orleans...

A business sign for Kindred, a New Orleans restaurant, hangs outside

Local restaurant reopens following COVID-19 guidelines

Shadera Moore May 23, 2020

After Louisiana entered Phase One of reopening its economy last weekend, local restaurant owners such as Caroline Nassrah, A'06, and Aimée Herrmann, who own the vegan dining spot Kindred, are practicing...

Alcoholics Anonymous goes virtual during COVID-19

Alcoholics Anonymous goes virtual during COVID-19

Rose Wagner May 19, 2020

Skyler was isolated. They were anxious to be around people in public, plagued by a certain social paranoia. Feeling a lack of control, unable to see some semblance of a future, Skyler spent most of their...

An issue of The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate sits on a subscriber's driveway May 7. Due to COVID-19, local journalists have had their hours cut. The Advocate company put 10% of its staff on a “permanent furlough,” while the rest of the organization’s staff members have had their hours cut for payroll savings, working four-day work weeks once every pay period, according to newsroom leaders. Photo credit: Michael Giusti

New Orleans journalists face furloughs, memories of Katrina

Rose Wagner and Gabriella Killett May 14, 2020

Less than a year after The Advocate won a Pulitzer Prize and acquired the Times-Picayune, creating the largest newsroom in Louisiana and changing the face of New Orleans journalism, a global pandemic hit,...

pregnant women

Pregnant women cope with giving birth during COVID-19

Rae Walberg April 29, 2020

In April 2019, Loyola A'11 Melanie Shannon became pregnant after a year and a half of trying. Ten weeks later, she was devastated with the news that she lost her baby. “That last summer was just this...

Gov. John Bel Edwards talks about the statewide stay-at-home order and what it takes to try and restart the economy while addressing steps being taken to fight the Coronavirus along with the status of cases in the state during a news conference at the GOHSEP Friday April 24, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)

Gov. Edwards extends Louisiana stay-at-home order, makes changes

Gabriella Killett April 27, 2020

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced an extended stay-at-home order Monday, which despite the postponement of reopening the state's economy until May 16, includes three specific changes to the...

Bryant Istre doing his job remotely from home on his laptop as he waits for his stimulus check to come in

Recent alumni take advantage of stimulus check

Jc Canicosa April 22, 2020

Bryant Istre A'19, is feeling fairly fortunate in the midst of a national pandemic. Istre is one year out of college, and he has a job that can be done fully remotely in an industry that he says is...

New Orleans could be the New Atlantis

The New Atlantis: Climate experts prepare for New Orleans’ potentially bleak future

Rae Walberg April 7, 2020

Three hundred years ago, the ancestors of former Loyola environmental science professor John Clark, were some of New Orleans' first settlers. Twelve generations later, the prevalence of climate change...

Celebration Church gives back during pandemic

Anum Siddiqui, Pack News April 3, 2020

While churches shift their Sunday service online due to the coronavirus, Celebration Church in the New Orleans area continues to give back to their community. Church volunteers get together once a week...

Natalie Reaux helping her son Maxx Reaux with some math homework before his afternoon snack.

Teachers and parents adapt to online homeschooling across the United States

April 2, 2020

Schools all across America were hit with an emergency closing leaving many to wonder when they will open their doors again. Many parents in Orleans Parish were told classes will begin again in April, but...

Uptown college students sit outside of popular local bar and grill. Photo credit: Hannah Renton

Governor closes bars, movie theaters and restricts restaurants in efforts to slow virus spread

Rae Walberg March 16, 2020

In response to Louisiana's surge of COVID-19 cases that have already killed two and affected 132, Governor John Bel. Edwards announced new measures banning gatherings of more than 50 people on Monday afternoon...

Crystal Roa adjusts equipment before measuring the height of a patient at Luke's House Clinic. Roa is a volunteer Spanish medical translator at the free clinic. Photo credit: Rose Wagner

Student interns as medical translator for Spanish speakers

Rose Wagner March 15, 2020

Crystal Roa never thought she would be spending her sophomore year of college in a clinic, explaining to a woman she had never met that her health, and life, were in critical condition if she didn’t...

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