Awards

Loyola University Chicago and the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship awards Community Engagement Awards to undergraduate students or group of students who participated in either a Service-Learning or Academic Internship Engaged Learning course during the 2024-2025 academic year. Student who are good candidates for this award would have demonstrated some of the following during their engaged learning courses:

• A dedication to social justice in their work
• A lasting impact with a community agency through their engagement
• Demonstrated a deep concern for the environment or local community

Faculty, staff, and community organization representatives are asked to submit nominations for those students or group of students. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Students receive a $500 award. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Community Engagement Awards.

The Loyola University Community Partner Award for Coeducation is given to a non-profit community organization who hosted one or more undergraduate Engaged Learning students since Spring 2024 and who best exemplifies the role of a community partner who co-educates and supports our Loyola students. As a co-educator, the partner creates space for learning through collaboration with their organization.

The Community Partner Award for Coeducation exists to recognize and celebrate partner organizations who not only are doing great work for their community, but are also undertaking additional effort to serve as partners in education working with Loyola students at their organization.

Faculty, staff, and community organization representatives (self-nominations are welcome) are asked to submit nominations. These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Community Partner Award for Coeducation.

A learning portfolio (ePortfolio) is a digital collection that demonstrates a student’s work over time, featuring skills, abilities, values, experiences and reflections. The Learning Portfolio Award will be given to students who cultivated and curated a portfolio throughout a program or academic course at Loyola University Chicago. Students, faculty, and staff submit nominations for students who created learning portfolios in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025.

Each portfolio will be reviewed and evaluated based on the four learning outcomes below.

1. Synthesize learning from experience through reflection, applying outside the classroom learning with inside the classroom learning.
2. Critically reflect upon intellectual, personal, professional, and civic learning within the context of the student experience at Loyola.
3. Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and values acquired through reflecting on their experiences.
4. Articulate connections to Social Justice and the Jesuit Mission of Loyola.

Faculty, staff, and students may submit nominations.  These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Selected students will receive a $500 award through the Financial Aid Office. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Learning Portfolio Award. 

Graduate Student Mentor Award

The Graduate Student Mentor Award has been established to recognize and reward the exceptional work of Loyola's graduate student mentors in the area of mentoring undergraduate researchers. Nominees must be current Loyola Graduate Students. Nominations can come from current undergraduate students only.

These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Graduate Student Mentor Award.

Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Student Mentoring

This award recognizes and rewards exceptional work of Loyola's faculty in the area of undergraduate research. Mentors must be employed at Loyola University Chicago. Only undergraduate students of Loyola may nominate faculty. 

These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Langerbeck Award.

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

The Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award has been established to honor Loyola undergraduates who conduct exceptional research, articulate their research to others, and enhance Loyola’s reputation as a quality research university by integrating research into their academic learning experience. Nominees must be Loyola undergraduates who conducted research during the 2024-2025 academic year. The multiple winners will receive $500.

These awards will be announced during the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES) Awards Ceremony on April 5, 2025. Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.

Adolfo Nicolas SJ Excellence in Engaged Learning and Teaching Award

This award recognizes an instructor who brings imagination and dedication to an Engaged Learning course in the spirit of former Superior of the Jesuits Adolfo Nicolas SJ's quote "Depth of thought and imagination in the Ignatian tradition involves a profound engagement with the real, a refusal to let go until one goes beneath the surface." 

• The instructor must have taught an Engaged Learning course during the previous or current school year. Engaged Learning categories include:
• Academic Internship
• Public Performance
• Fieldwork
• Service-Learning
• Undergraduate Research
• Award nominees will have shown excellence in incorporating and centering the Engaged Learning experiences in the curriculum and leveraging it to impact student learning.
• This award is open to all LUC instructors (tenure track, non-tenure track, and adjunct)
• Nominees will be asked to submit their CV,  teaching statement, response to award prompt, and the name of one additional reference to their engaged learning teaching.
• Nominations can be submitted by students, staff, community partners, or faculty colleagues. There are no self nominations. and the winner will be announced at the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium.
• Nominations will be accepted November 15th, 2024 through March 2nd, 2025.

Click here to submit a nomination for the Adolfo Nicolas SJ Excellence in Engaged Learning and Teaching Award.

Additional information on each of the recipients and their nominators can be found on this slideshow: 2024 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium Awards

Community Engagement Awards

• Amalachukwu Okoye - Social Work 340 and City Colleges of Chicago - Truman College
• Sabrine El Idrissi - Psychology 237 and Madonna Mission
• Andrew Barren - Health Systems Management and Almost Home Kids

Community Partner Award

• Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Medical Center

Learning Portfolio Awards

• Bianca Loglisci - Dance and Environmental Science
• Ian Hipp - Biology

Adolfo Nicolas SJ Excellence in Engaged Learning and Teaching Award

• Noah Butler - Anthropology
• Elizabeth Lozano - Communication Studies

Research Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards

• Caroline Cady
• Josh Knutsen
• Laurel Miskovic
• Shanti O'Neil

Graduate Student Mentor Award

• Isaac Ahlgren - Computer Science

Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring

• Colleen Conley - Psychology
• Timothy Classen - Quinlan School of Business

Teaching Award Descriptions

By clicking on this link you will find the descriptions of the University-wide Teaching Awards presented by the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy.