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FFA, forestry program help educate through friendly competition
The Future Farmers of America and Louisiana Tech’s forestry program brought the agriculture industry to the classroom recently in order to give high school students on-hand experience of what it takes to be a forester. Students from high...
Students, professor participate in NewsTrain management session
Three Louisiana Tech students serving on the student newspaper, The Tech Talk, and a journalism instructor gained additional knowledge of practical applications of management for print and digital newsrooms at the Associated Press Managing...
Nursing professors present information at national conference
Two Louisiana Tech nursing educators attended the national Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Convention held in Las Vegas. Nancy Darland, professor, and Tanya Sims, assistant professor, attended the convention,...
Music auditions open for incoming freshmen
Louisiana Tech’s department of music is searching for potential majors. The department will host auditions for incoming music and non-music majors on Nov. 6, Jan. 22, Feb. 22, and March 26. Auditions are required for students to be considered...
National exhibition to make stop at Tech
Examples of the best designed book covers of 2009, as decided by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, will be displayed at Louisiana Tech’s School of Art later this month. The selections in AIGA’s annual competition represent the best work...
Tech professors to provide leadership, research for ‘LA-SiGMA’ project
Faculty from Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science will play important roles in a major transformation of materials science research and education in Louisiana thanks to a $20 million grant from the National Science...
English professor publishes an article on Henry James
Dr. Kim Vanderlaan, an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, had her article, "Empire and Allegory in Henry James's ‘The Europeans,’" published by the prestigious Cambridge Journals in England. James, who was born in 1843...
Robbins’ essay inspired by ‘butoh’
Dr. Kenneth Robbins, director of Louisiana Tech’s School of Performing Arts, has recently had his essay, “The Healing Power of Butoh,” published in the book “Performing Consciousness.” “Butoh” means “dance” in Japanese, and, in his essay,...
Journalism professor to blog for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Will blog for books—or music. Dr. Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, editor of Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, which will released by Lexington Books in December, has been invited to write a series of blogs on music marketing...
Tech grad, UN special expert speaks about work around world
Sometimes one has to take a chance to make a change. With that, UN special expert Clint Williamson told how events in his life came together to take him from a job as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans to a career in the foreign...