Offices & Centers
Study Abroad
The overarching mission of the LMU Study Abroad office is to transform our student participants by providing meaningful, culturally immersive, and academically sound experiences abroad. The goal of this transformation is to take place in the following ways:
Evolving the self: develop skills of intercultural competency, self-reliance, and independence in our students through reflective, culturally immersive and intellectually rigorous programming overseas.
Engaging with the world: translate these skills into an understanding and constructive world-view that is employed by our students in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world.
Enhancing the community: contribute to the international dialogue of any present or future community of which our students are members by infusing new academic, social, and cultural perspectives gained on study abroad.
National & International Fellowships (ONIF)
The Office of National & International Fellowships (ONIF) assists LMU students and alumni interested in pursuing external awards that support their academic and career goals. Many fellowships require candidates to apply through their university or alma mater, which in turn sponsors the candidate. ONIF facilitates this sponsorship.
Through ONIF, students can learn about fellowship opportunities available through governments, private donors, foundations, civic organizations, and corporations. ONIF also offers strategic planning and advice for submitting a competitive application package.
Center for Urban Resilience (CURes)
Founded in 2011, CURes serves LMU faculty, staff, and students by developing undergraduate and graduate courses, supporting faculty research and scholarly activity, publishing an international journal, providing restorative justice trainings, and conducting cutting-edge urban ecology research. CURes collaborates with faculty through fellowships, joint grant making, original research, and outreach programming. CURes also partners with the Green LMU Initiative, the Campus Sustainability Officer, the School of Education, Loyola Law School, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the School of Film and Television, the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination, and others to enhance the ongoing efforts of those programs and to help initiate novel projects that meet the goals of the LMU Strategic Plan.
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA)
Founded in 1996, the The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) is the premier public opinion research organization studying the dynamic region of Los Angeles. It is recognized as one of the leading undergraduate research centers in the nation, and it is an acknowledged LA authority in public opinion surveys, exit polls, and leadership and community studies.