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Journalism students update community with service-learning project
Louisiana Tech journalism students are receiving hands-on experience at bringing the university and the community together. Students enrolled in the spring feature writing course are working to update the community about activities occurring at...
Louisiana Tech vice president sets retirement
The last time someone other than Dr. Kenneth Rea occupied the vice president for academic affairs’ office at Louisiana Tech, a gallon of gas cost less than a dollar, the Fox Network was a television “start-up,” and Microsoft Windows 2.0 was the...
SciTech offers fourth through ninth graders summer learning opportunity
The SciTech Education Center at Louisiana Tech has the chance to bring students more learning opportunities this summer thanks to a $50,000 grant they have been awarded by NASA’s Summer of Innovation Program. All Louisiana students in grades...
Art students assist in service-learning project in Homer
Louisiana Tech associate professor of art Nick Bustamante is bringing art to a new forum in North Louisiana with the Homermural Project. Bustamante said the mural will be in located in Homer and will represent the parish’s agricultural heritage...
Nursing students pinned in winter ceremony
Twenty-three Louisiana Tech nursing graduates were pinned during the Division of Nursing’s winter pinning ceremony held in Howard Auditorium. Several of the new graduates were honored during the ceremony. Those awarded were: Ashley Archer, of...
Journalism faculty, alumna to present research at national conference
Dr. Beth Barfoot Christian, an assistant professor of journalism, and Ashley Dison, a 2011 Tech graduate in journalism, will present research at the 2012 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held in...
University Senate hosts ‘Future of Ruston’ forum
The University Senate at Louisiana Tech will host a forum titled, “The Future of Ruston: The Progress and Development in Ruston and How it Will Impact the University,” April 19 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the University Hall Auditorium....
Engineering students take top honors at ASCE competition
Louisiana Tech University’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) won first place in the concrete canoe competition during the 2012 Deep South Regional Conference held last week at The University of Tennessee-Martin....
Award-winning pianist to perform at Tech
Tickets are still available for the April 10 concert featuring Spencer Myer, the winner of the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. Myer performs orchestral, recital and chamber music and has presented his musical talents in North...
Student places first at international convention, English honor society members present research
Seven members of Louisiana Tech’s English honor society, the Rho Gamma chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, made a mark on the organization’s international convention held recently in New Orleans, including a first place award for scholarly research....