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ANS professor named a 2011 Environmental Health Sciences Fellow
Dr. Brandon Moore, assistant professor of biological sciences in Louisiana Tech University’s College of Applied and Natural Sciences, has been named an Environmental Health Sciences’ 2011 Science Communication Fellow. Moore was selected as one...
Tech history department plans Black History Month events
Louisiana Tech’s history department is sponsoring two events that will be held at the Lincoln Parish Library in honor of Black History Month. The first event will be held Thursday, Feb. 10 and will feature Dr. Marko Maunula, an associate...
Tech professor recipient of March of Dimes award
A Louisiana Tech nursing professor has been honored by the March of Dimes. Nancy Darland, who is a perinatal clinical nurse specialist and adviser to Tech’s Student Nurses Team, was named the 2011 recipient of the Battered Boot Award, the...
Photography students recognized in ‘Best of College Photography’
Two Louisiana Tech photography majors have been selected as finalists for an international contest. Jennifer Martin, a senior photography major from Ruston, and Brooke Humphreys, a junior photography major from Denham Springs, were the...
Tech students to assist with Radiothon
Louisiana Tech students will serve as volunteers for this year’s St. Jude Radiothon, which will take place Monday and Tuesday at Super 1 Foods. Students will answer telephones, and forestry students and members from Phi Mu sorority will collect...
‘Love songs’ to be featured in Tech performance
The Louisiana Tech Percussion Ensemble will perform a plethora of songs in an upcoming concert held in Howard Auditorium. Featured in the program will be songs from David Skidmore's "Love Songs (Book One)” and Austrian composer Manu Delago's...
Winter concert brings out composers’ classics
The Louisiana Tech choirs will perform their Winter Choral Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15 in Howard Auditorium. The choirs will perform music composed by Arcadelt, Palestrina, Brahms, Mozart, Chilcott, Dandridge, and more. Additionally,...
Prison journalism and Angola Prison media to be focus of conference presentation
When most people think about “journalism,” they traditionally think newspapers and TV news. Most never consider or don’t realize that journalism can be practiced in unconventional places, such as prisons. From behind barbed wire fences,...
Hamrick’s work chosen as ‘Best in Show’
A Louisiana Tech assistant professor of art’s work has been selected Best in Show in a national exhibition. Frank Hamrick, who is also the program coordinator of photography, displayed “Scars” at the Chowan National Juried Art Exhibition, which...
College of Engineering and Science to host MIT physicist’s lecture on ‘Exoplanets’
Sara Seager, a professor of planetary science and physics at MIT, will be the guest lecturer, Friday, February 4, at the second annual Wallace Herbert Memorial Astronomy Lecture hosted by the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech...