He won the contested election by a vote of ASEE's full membership. ASEE was founded in 1893 and is dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. Its 12,000 members include engineering deans, professors, instructors, students and industrial representatives. A Journal of Christian Spirituality , a major new scholarly journal focusing on spiritual issues, is edited by Douglas Burton-Christie, associate professor, theological studies. The journal is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.
Trial advocacy is the development of courtroom skills.
The law school's prowess has been reflected in the success of the Byrne Trial Advocacy Team in the National Trial Advocacy Competition. Led by Susan Poehls, professor, the Loyola team has won the regional round 10 times and gone to the national semi-finals four times in the last 13 years. In 1995, the team captured the national championship trophy. Ben Beesley is the new director of alumni relations. Beesley joins LMU from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he spent more than eight years as director and associate director of the alumni program.