Institute for Lasallian Studies

While the Institute for Lasallian Studies (ILS) was initially formed in 2008 “to provide Lasallian formation and accompaniment to members of the regional and international Lasallian Family,” its focus has subsequently evolved. The Director of the Institute for Lasallian Studies continues to remain the person primarily responsible for the implementation of the initial goal of the institute, but the Advisory Board of ILS is the body that views the whole of the functioning of the activities and initiatives of ILS as envisaged by the President in 2011 and provides advice and counsel to the President of Saint Mary’s University on such.

Members of the ILS Advisory Board are:

Timothy Gossen
(Chair)

Alisa Macksey
(Vice Chair and Secretary)

Roxanne Eubank

Ben Murray

Brother Robert Smith, FSC

1. Food, Nutrition and Health (e.g. biochemistry of food products, science and engineering of potable water, cancer risks and cures from food, economic impact studies of nutrition programs in schools) 
2. Sustainability and the Environment (e.g. dealing with climate change, eco-design of houses and urban centers, industrial ecology, air and water quality monitoring in megacities) 
3. Education and Learning Innovations (e.g. access to education among the poor, impact of use of tablets for learning math and science, coping mechanisms among children with learning disabilities, predicting the academic emotions of young learners based on physiological signals)

Lasallians in the World Solving Real Problems of the World: Research Agenda of the International Association of Lasallian Universities (IALU) Revised