Joseph Koral

About

Department/School/Division: Health Sciences Division
Campus: Health Sciences Campus
Years at Loyola: 16

What is your favorite thing about working at Loyola? 
Having the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of new technologies and knowing that each day will be different.

What is your most memorable achievement as a Loyola employee? 
My most memorable achievement was the opening of our new “state-of-the-art” research computing facility located in the Stritch School of Medicine. The facility holds over 200 physical servers, including four high performance computing clusters.

What does Loyola's mission mean to you?
It means that no matter who you are, you will always have an opportunity here at Loyola.

What motivates you to succeed each and every day? 
Knowing that there will always be something new to work on. And of course, the wonderful colleagues that I get to work with on a daily basis.

Tell us how you show your Rambler pride. 
It is nice to see Loyola is part of the Missouri Valley Conference. Even though I went to Illinois State University, I will always cheer for Loyola.

Tell us something most people at Loyola would be surprised to know about you. 
My wife and I run a 501c3 nonprofit organization called “The Gardenworks Project,” which provides families who are in need of food assistance with home vegetable gardens. The organization is volunteer-led, working to relieve hunger in the western suburbs of Chicago. We started the organization in 2012 and installed 4 home gardens. Each year we have doubled the amount of gardens built, and this year we will provide over 40 new households with home vegetable gardens. This organization is something of which my wife and I are very proud.