Le Moyne students returning for the beginning of the Spring 2012 semester have a brand new shining facility for classes – the 48,000-square-foot science addition. Built for just under $20 million, the structure represents the largest and most expensive single construction project ever undertaken on Le Moyne’s campus.

View building dedication ad that ran in the Syracuse Post-Standard

As part of the Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP), Dr. Shawn Ward of the psychology department, recently traveled to  San Salvador, El Salvador. Dr. Ward was among 12 individuals -- representing 10 Jesuit institutions -- who took part in the trip.

Cross-cultural dialogue can take many forms. Following intellectual threads across the history and traditions of human thought, Associate Professor William Day of the Philosophy Department models an openness to new intellectual terrain for Le Moyne students and colleagues alike.

Associate Professor Dr. Kate Costello-Sullivan from the English department presented a paper in June at the national American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) Conference at National University of Ireland, Galway titled "Presencing Absence in Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship." Costello-Sullivan’s interests and publications range over a broad array of themes in British and Irish literature, including gender, nationalism, and post-colonialism.

While in Europe, Le Moyne President Fred Pestello, Ph.D., had the distinct honor of meeting with leadership of the Society of Jesus and the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.

Donald Maldari, S.J. (back row right) with some of the students who traveled to Dominica earlier this year.

This May, 16 students from Le Moyne’s Leadership, Education, Action and Decision (LEAD) learning community traveled to the Commonwealth of Dominica, volunteering and absorbing the culture of the Caribbean island nation of 69,000 people. 

Of the many extraordinary opportunities students have at Le Moyne, one of the most significant is the potential for collaborative research with faculty. In these projects, undergraduate students share ideas and background reading with individual faculty members. Students conduct literature searches, formulate hypotheses, and design experiments. They administer research, make evidence-based inferences, and analyze results. Psychology Honors student Christina Nicolais illustrates the fruits of these remarkable collaborations.

Although Dolphy Day itself is well known, many are not familiar with the origin of the tradition or for whom it is named. Take some time to look around this page to learn more about what we have planned, learn who Eric Dolphy was (and see and hear him perform), and get a history lesson on what happened that warm spring day 40 years ago.

 See how one of our students views his education and Le Moyne experience as giving him the edge in the job market.

Le Moyne College’s O'Connell Professor in the Humanities, Dr. Mary MacDonald of the Religious Studies Department, participated in the Parliament of the World's Religions held late last year in Melbourne, Australia. MacDonald presented a paper titled "Orientations to the Land in Australia," considering the perspectives of Indigenous Australians and Settler Australians and asking whether the two groups can make common cause for the benefit of all who now call Australia home.