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At NASA One Drive, Allen Lee was ‘right in the middle of it’
Today he’s 86 and in semi-retirement in Ruston, but soon after graduating from Louisiana Tech with his degree in mechanical engineering in 1957, Allen Lee was under contract with NASA, living in an apartment on NASA One Drive just outside Johnson Space Center in Houston and doing his part to help America beat the Russians in the Race to the Moon.
Tech to kick off 2019-20 Science Seminars
The Louisiana Tech University Science Seminar series kicks off its 2019-20 series Thursday, Sept. 12, with a talk on how celestial objects like neutron stars can be studied in an experiment. Doctoral student Devika Pathak, physics, will talk...
Computer Science major earns Upsilon Pi Epsilon scholarship
Louisiana Tech University Computer Science junior Andrew Casey Maurice has earned a $1,000 scholarship from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines.
Two former doctoral students honored at EUROMAT for best paper
A publication by two former Louisiana Tech doctoral students was selected as the best submitted paper of the year to the Journal of Functional Materials and featured recently in Stockholm, Sweden at EUROMAT 2019, the annual European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes.
Hicks to deliver 14th annual Marbury Ethics Lecture
The Honorable S. Maurice Hicks, Jr., Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, will deliver “Whose Ethics? Yours, Mine, or Theirs?” as part of the 14th annual William Ardis Marbury, Jr. and Virginia Lomax Marbury Lecture Series on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 11 a.m. in Howard Auditorium on the Louisiana Tech University campus.
Louisiana Tech named Top Tier National University in 2020 USNWR rankings
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) has ranked Louisiana Tech University as a Top Tier National University in its 2020 Best Colleges list released today. Louisiana Tech was also ranked No. 135 on the USNWR list of Top Public Schools.
Nicholas McHugh, ’10, helps astronauts suit up at NASA
If Louisiana Tech students are interested in working for NASA, 2010 biomedical engineering graduate Nicholas McHugh of Whitehouse, Texas, is more than ready to help, just as today he helps astronauts prepare for and perform in human space flight through his role in what NASA calls its “Flight Operations Directorate” in Extra-Vehicular Activity, or EVA, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Auditions for fall musical comedy planned Sept. 16-17
Auditions for Louisiana Tech Department of Theatre’s fall comedy, The Addams Family — A New Musical, will be Sept. 16 and 17 at 6 p.m. in Stone Theatre. Auditions are open to the entire Tech and Ruston communities.
Johnson named to 2019 YPI 40 Under 40
Louisiana Tech Assistant Vice President for Academic Advancement and Partnerships Dr. Donna Johnson has been named to the Young Professional Initiative (YPI) 40 Under Forty class for 2019. Johnson is working to develop, coordinate, and direct...
President’s legacy back on campus in new freshman
Caroline Clifton of Goshen, Ohio, is 18 and already a part of Louisiana Tech history. Now a freshman, Clifton is the great-granddaughter of Dr. F. Jay Taylor, who became the University’s president in 1962 at the age of only 39. He was a World...