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Audio / Video Archives
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Goal-setting guided Techster track team to the top
"One team. One goal." That was the slogan thumbtacked to the bulletin board in Tech’s women’s track team locker room last season. Listen ...

Bukowski's art flourishes in Eastern Europe
This summer, Marie Bukowski boarded a plane with 100 pieces of art crammed into her suitcases.  When she landed in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the fourth annual World Art Print exhibition, she encountered hundreds more pieces of art from around the globe.  Listen...

Earworm, brain itch - this song will get stuck in your head
Find out how a catchy theme song was created for this year's Louisiana Peach Festival. Listen...

Teaching reaches a high note for Haughton band director
What does it take to lead an organization where your people's abilities are put on display at countless events throughout the year? Listen...

Composers' League Forum celebrates new music
The music they compose may be different from what most people are used to, but that's only because music is continually evolving. Listen...

Blind children have new views on disabilities
Here's the story of how one teenager's unique talent both thrives alongside and collides with his particular “character trait” - blindness. Listen...

Blind confront employment issues
Studies have long found that adults with disabilities face many obstacles in the working world. Listen...

Center shifts attitudes about blindness
The first part of a series on blindness explores the curriculum and philosophy behind the Louisiana Center for the Blind in Ruston. Listen...

Scholarship dinner takes on global proportions
It's a Tech tradition that involves food, music and cultural heritage. But that's not the half of it. Listen...

Alumnus makes quick moves in niche industry
The opportunities to fight opponents through video games are many. But actually being the fighter in a video game is not an easy gig to get. For one 1997 Tech alum, a few quick moves have literally transformed his career. Listen...

Sadiq brings heritage of Kashmir to Ruston
With the holidays fast approaching, craft bazaars are plentiful. However, there's one holiday sale in Ruston this weekend that is out of the ordinary. Listen...

Governor emphasizes education, economic development
During Gov. Kathleen Blanco's visit to Lincoln Parish Thursday, she spent much of her time visiting the campuses of Louisiana Tech and Grambling State. She began her day by speaking to the Ruston Kiwanis Club. Listen...

Tech SGA president: 'We will be recognized as a generation of change'
Wednesday night's voter rally was one part political speeches and one part entertainment. Listen...

Modern art mingles with Black Bayou Refuge
Caddo Native American pottery was traded on it. Tenant farmers plowed it. A defunct state fish hatchery left artificial levees and ponds on it. Listen...

Overcoming drug addiction - part 1
In the end there is jail, institution or death. That's how one drug rehabilitation counselor describes the alternatives to living a drug-free life. But for one Tech alumnus, drug abuse is a disease that he has fought and overcome in a brilliant way. He has many stories in a journey from the before and afterworld of addiction. Listen...

Overcoming drug addiction - part 2
In the second part of this addiction series, Kate Archer talks with two people on different sides of the table: a clinic manager who diagnoses and treats people with alcohol and drug addictions and an addict who not only kicked his drug habit, but has gone on to achieve remarkable academic success. Listen...

LA Gear Up
With summer days waning, parents and their students are gearing up for a new school year. But for some middle school students, the gearing up happened throughout the summer at Tech. Listen...

Tech student defends peach eating title
Ruston's Louisiana Peach Festival just wouldn't be complete without a peach eating contest. There's a sweet story about last year's peach eating champion, a Tech civil engineering student. Listen...

Students Give Back to the Community
Over 800 students gathered to give back to the community that supports Louisiana Tech University. Listen...

College of Engineering and Science dads coach Mars Mission
For a group of north Louisiana children, the mission to mars is history. Louisiana held its FIRST LEGO League competition in New Orleans this year and these nine to 13-year-olds brought home a trophy and many life lessons learned from their Mars exploration. Here's the story on team Alien Invaders. Listen...

Tech's CyBERS is changing lives
People with paralysis are leading pretty normal lives today thanks to adaptive equipment that makes it possible to drive, work, go to school, have a family, and pursue hobbies. The sales manager for FastServ Medical says independence is key, and that's where Tech's Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science factors in. Listen...

Local pioneers of civil rights: 'It was time for a change'
In 1964, during the height of the civil rights movement, a small group of African-American men in Jonesboro took a stand. They challenged the Ku Klux Klan, police, and racist vigilante violence to protect their communities and civil rights workers. Listen...

Tech M.F.A. students tapped for Studio Tour
Four graduate students will be in Ruston's artist studio tour this weekend. They talk candidly about their art and the influences in Tech's School of Art. Listen...

Time Out for Tech behind the scenes
Louisiana Tech will welcome prospective students and their families Oct 2. when the university hosts Time Out for Tech. Organizers, students and faculty all have a unique take on this soft-sell recruiting tradition. Listen...

Study finds toddlers fed too much sugar, fat
Pizza and Coke, french fries and candy—not what you'd expect to find on the high chairs and in the sippy cups of one- and two-year-olds. A new study shows that many babies are developing the same poor eating habits as adults. Listen...

Unity Step Show celebrates culture, tradition
With their intricate rhythms, beats and chants—step shows have been a longstanding tradition in African-American fraternities and sororities. Listen...

An evening of global proportions
Saturday's International Student Scholarship Dinner celebrated the diversity of cultures at Louisiana Tech to a sold-out Student Center audience. Sample the beats and hear the stories behind this annual tradition. Listen...

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Videos

Walk in My Shoes
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Track Stars See...

Black History Month 2004
Bertha Robinson - A Tribute See...

Walk in My Shoes
Anna and Hillary: friends, etc. See...


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