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Louisiana Poet Laureate to read poetry at Tech
As part of Academic Excellence Week at Louisiana Tech, Dr. Julie Kane, the current Louisiana Poet Laureate, will read her poetry at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 in George T. Madison Hall, Room 105. Kane’s poetry collections are “Jazz Funeral”...
Tech receives national recognition for community service, volunteerism
Louisiana Tech University has once again been named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) for its leadership among institutions of higher education in...
Professor to chair division of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Dr. Daniela Mainardi, associate professor and program chair of chemical engineering and associate professor of nanosystems engineering at Louisiana Tech University, has been elected Chair of the Transport and Energy Processes Division (TEP) of...
Tech focuses on East Asia during spring quarter
This spring, Louisiana Tech will Focus on East Asia for its annual "Shaping the 21st Century" series. The experience will begin Thursday, March 22 at 10:15 a.m. in Wyly Tower Auditorium for the first of four distinguished speakers. Dr. William...
Tech to host annual student art show, photographer’s book signing
Louisiana Tech University’s School of Art will host its annual student art show March 29 through April 10 in the Main Gallery and the Bellocq Gallery in the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center. Kelli Connell, who earned her M.F.A. in art history...
Gingrich to make campaign stop at Tech
RUSTON – Republican presidential hopeful and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will speak Tuesday 11 a.m. in the Student Center, Main Floor on the campus of Louisiana Tech. In anticipation of the Louisiana Primary on Saturday, Gingrich...
Tech department head's article carries warning to historians
All historians should be more careful about their work after reading the latest article written by Louisiana Tech professor of history Dr. Stephen Webre. “Family and Descendants of Bernal Díaz del Castillo: A Seventeenth-Century Episode with a...
History professor's article focuses on Russian nurses in WWI
In a recently published article, Louisiana Tech University assistant professor of history Dr. Laurie S. Stoff takes a new look at the vitally important roles of Russian women in medical services during World War I. Titled “The ‘Myth of the War...
Genaro Smith to participate in poetry reading
The second annual “Experience Poetry in Vicksburg,” a day of poetry workshops and readings, will feature three poets, including one from Louisiana Tech, Genaro Smith, along with Angela Ball and Sandra Beasley. Lorelei Books, an independent...
Professor presents on Francophone film, hosts roundtable discussions
Dr. Dolliann Hurtig from Louisiana Tech’s School of Literature and Language presented at the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers’ Association Conference in Lafayette recently. Hurtig organized and headed three consecutive round table...