our faculty remains innovative, engaging, and noted nationwide • Anthony Decuir, Ph.D., associate dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions from the American Music Therapy Association. The award recognizes his work as a music therapy clinician in mental health. • Media outlets nationwide covering the debate on the health benefits of organic food picked up on research published by Loyola professor of psychology Kendall Eskine, Ph.D., whose article shows a correlation between purchasing organic food, which can make people self-righteous, and an increase in harsh moral judgments. • Working with a team of undergraduate researchers, Rosalie Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences, has devised a new method of prompting regeneration in vertebrate synovial joints. Her work, which holds exciting possibilities for applications in human medicine, earned her team a National Institutes of Health grant and recent mention in Science, one of the world’s top scientific journals. • Three universities—the United States Air Force Academy, Alabama State University, and North Carolina Central University—implemented use in 2012 of a new electronic attendance tracking system developed by assistant professor of finance Mehmet Dicle, Ph.D., and assistant professor of economics John Levendis, Ph.D.
Kendall Eskine, Ph.D.