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For the second time running, Loyola University New Orleans’ acclaimed College of Music and Media is named among Billboard magazine’s Top Music Business Schools. The elite list places Loyola in excellent company, alongside music education greats, including Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. These universities are training the next generation of music industry leaders.

Fulbright Scholars

Young alumni Sasha Solano-McDaniel ’21 and Zachary Dowling ’21 received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards from the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and U.S. Department of State. As Fulbright participants, SolanoMcDaniel and Dowling are studying, conducting research, and teaching abroad this year in Italy and Spain. Solano-McDaniel won the Fulbright-Casten Family Foundation Award to attend the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) in Pollenzo, Italy. She is working to earn a Master of Gastronomy: World Food Cultures and Mobility degree. Dowling is an English teaching assistant in the Canary Islands, aiding schoolteachers in English immersion classrooms; constructing lesson plans; and engaging students, both in the classroom and through after-school programs.

Gilman Scholars

A record-breaking 13 Loyola students received Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to participate in study abroad and intern abroad programs in 2022. With an acceptance rate of one in four students, this competitive award run by the U.S. Department of Education supports undergraduates who are traditionally underrepresented in study abroad.

Howl to Jabez Berniard ’22, Peyton Finch ’23, Hallé Gugsa ’23, Josi Guidry ’23, Macie LaFonta ’23, Augie Lodholz ’24, Mohamed Mohamed ’23, Anna Nguyen ’23, Heather Rabassa ’23, Kaliah Rodgers ’24, Kailey Shakerin ’23, Victoria Sosa ’24, and Akilah Toney ’24. We wish them well in all their adventures and travels!

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National Champions

Loyola Athletics honored its 2021-2022 NAIA Men’s Basketball National Championship team with a special Championship Banner Drop and Ring Ceremony past November prior to the team’s home game against Southern University New Orleans in “The Den.” At the ceremony, Athletics officials unveiled the National Championship banner, the school’s first national title since the men’s basketball team championship win in 1945, and members of the team received their National Championship rings.