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Kaitlynn Willis
Her favorite animals are cats and red pandas, but she like exotic animals too, like bunnies and reptiles, fish and ferrets, hedgehogs and other small rodents. “These types of pets are becoming more common in the United States,” said Louisiana...

Conner Hartupee
Today he’s a senior scheduled to graduate from Louisiana Tech in May with an undergrad degree in biology. Five years from now, he hopes to be moving into a medical residency. “It’s a long road ahead,” Conner Hartupee said, “but I’m looking...

‘The Comedy of Errors’ comes to Howard Feb. 19
One of Shakespeare’s most hilarious plays, The Comedy of Errors, stops in Howard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19. Two long-separated twins, their two tricky servants (also twins), a jealous wife, and her lovelorn sister romp through this...

Jekoven Tinsley
One of the main reasons Jekoven Tinsley came to Louisiana Tech was because Ruston is much closer to the equator than his high school of Washtenaw International — in icy Ypsilanti, Michigan. “It gets really cold during the winter time, and I...

Tech professor, student team for international Best Paper Award
Dr. Yuri Lvov, professor of chemistry and nanosystems engineering in Louisiana Tech’s College of Engineering and Science and Institute for Micromanufacturing, and grad student Yusuf Darrat, together with international co-authors, received the...

College of Education, SciTEC host FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff
Nine teams from local high schools will work for weeks to design and build industrial-size robots in order to compete in Louisiana Tech’s inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition, hosted by the College of Education and SciTEC in the Doug and...

Tech to send team to RockOn space workshop
A team from the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University has been selected to participate in RockOn 2019, a NASA-supported workshop that will give faculty and students the opportunity to learn more about rocketry while...

Engineering lab receives AEP Foundation Grant
The American Electric Power Foundation has announced at $50,000 grant to the Louisiana Tech University Foundation for new equipment in the Power Systems and Smart Grid Laboratory. “The Electrical Engineering program at Louisiana Tech...
Louisiana Tech students attend UCT Conference
Twenty-seven students, faculty and staff from the Louisiana Tech University Trenchless Technology Center and the University chapter of the North American Society of Trenchless Technology/Associated General Contractors (NASTT/AGC) recently...

IISE student chapter attends regional conference
Five members of the Louisiana Tech University student chapter of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and Dr. Jun-Ing Ker, program chair of industrial engineering at Louisiana Tech and the chapter faculty advisor, attended...