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Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at Howard Feb. 19
The Louisiana Tech Concert Association, in conjunction with the New York City-based Aquila Theatre, will present Sense and Sensibility at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in Howard Auditorium on the Louisiana Tech campus. Tickets will be $15 for students with...

Free documentary viewings celebrate French in Louisiana
The Council of Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) is celebrating its 50th birthday with activities that include music and food festivals, weekend picnics, and film showings throughout the state and throughout the year. A high point of...

Competitors shine with bright ideas at Won in One 2018
A low-cost medical product used for blood salvaging during surgery was a two-time winner at the recent Won in One competition at Louisiana Tech’s Rawle Enterprise Center. The annual cash-prize competition is a chance for community members and...

Students, faculty win majority of awards at annual LBRN meeting
Louisiana Tech students and faculty won five of the eight awards presented at the recent Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN) meeting at the LSU Health Science Center in Shreveport. Members of Dr. Jamie Newman’s research lab took home...

History Faculty Recognized At National Meeting
Louisiana Tech University associate professor of history V. Elaine Thompson and professor emeritus of history Stephen Webre were honored recently for their service to Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society in history. The recognition came...

College of Engineering and Science announces 2018 Distinguished Alumni
The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University is pleased to announce its 2018 Distinguished Alumni. Each year, academic programs in the College select honorees who exemplify the Louisiana Tech tradition of excellence, are...

Professor explores underappreciated part of U.S., Japan relations
In the 1970s and 1980s, while popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the “yellow peril,” and while formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency,...

Tech leads STEM education field again
Thirty trainees from 16 states met on the Louisiana Tech campus recently for a special weekend institute to help strengthen and empower STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teachers. The STEM Center for Training and Learning...

SGA president Rice on NASFAA’s ‘Forward50’
Louisiana Tech has a strong student voice on a national committee of mostly administrators charged with making the financial aid process more transparent and efficient in order to get more students into college. The National Association of...

Eco-car team examines solutions for energy crisis
Each New Year offers the opportunity to start fresh and make changes in small or large ways. A group of Louisiana Tech students have set the goal of placing first in the 2018 Shell Eco-marathon Americas (SEM), an international competition...