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Professor wins physics education grant
Assistant Professor Rakitha Beminiwattha has been awarded a grant to support projects related to education, outreach and career development related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson...
Campus community meets challenges, breaks records in 2018
In 2018, Louisiana Tech University students, faculty, and staff have broken records and met challenges head on. We’ve listed here just. few of Louisiana Tech’s top stories for this past year. Rankings recognition continues to grow From great...
Troy O’Laughlin
Troy O’Laughlin enjoys his job as a chemical engineering so much he even has a favorite chemical: polyethylene. Who knew? “My last two jobs have involved marketing and manufacturing of high density polyethylene, which is used in applications...

Tech’s Govang one of six scholars to lead LCA’s academic divisions
A proud member of the teaching team of Communication 101 at Louisiana Tech, School of Communication instructor Don Govang is one of six selected scholars statewide to serve as a Division Chair for the Louisiana Communication Association (LCA)....

Clay Baum
Louisiana Tech’s reputation initially brought Clay Baum to the University. The opportunity to learn more about an area that interested him from a very early age brought him to the College of Business as a computer information systems major....
Chemistry seniors and professor publish groundbreaking paper
Brandon J. Cooper and Riley E. Cooper, seniors in the Louisiana Tech University chemistry program, have co-authored a paper which has been published in Dalton Transactions, an international journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry that...

Dr. Michele Maasberg
Service. It’s what drives Dr. Michele Maasberg. In fact, the former naval officer was busy answering questions for this story from 32,000 feet while traveling to an information systems conference where she served as chair for a workshop track....

Department of Communication professor helps bring home poster award
Louisiana Tech University School of Communication faculty member Dr. Kerri Phillips contributed to "Licensure Compacts in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology: Enhancing Service Delivery," a poster and presentation that was recognized as...

Student selected one of three SIGSEC 2018 Doctoral Student Award recipients
The Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) recently selected Sahar Farshadkhah, a Doctor of Business Administration student at Louisiana Tech University, as one of...

Katie Bakalis
Shreveport native Katie Bakalis knew from a young age she wanted to be a veterinarian. The junior in Animal Science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine gives credit to her parents for supporting her from the beginning and giving...