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Professor's article marks the 30th anniversary of ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’
Dr. Robert Rudnicki, an associate professor and coordinator of graduate studies in English, published an essay on John Kennedy Toole’s novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" in the Mississippi Quarterly, a prominent scholarly journal of Southern...
College of Education produces two of Louisiana’s Teachers of the Year
The College of Education at Louisiana Tech University has produced two of the state’s 2011 Teachers of the Year. Jenny Marie Blalock, a first-grade teacher at A.E. Phillips Laboratory School, was named the 2011 Louisiana Elementary School...
College of Engineering and Science offers online master’s degree
Louisiana Tech University students wanting to pursue a master’s degree in Engineering and Technology Management can now do so entirely online. The College of Engineering and Science has offered the degree program for the past nine years at its...
Tech, Barnes & Noble partner to enhance campus bookstore services
Louisiana Tech University has partnered with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC to create a new retail experience for visitors and members of the campus community. With a focus on customer service, product quality and availability, and...
Kinesiology professor receives national editorial excellence award
Dr. Kelly Brooks, assistant professor of kinesiology at Louisiana Tech University, has received the 2010 Strength and Conditioning Journal Editorial Excellence Award from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Brooks was...
Christmas book edited by Louisiana Tech faculty members
Faculty members from Louisiana Tech’s College of Liberal Arts joined together to edit a Christmas-related book. “Christmas Stories from Ohio,” edited by Dr. Dorothy Robbins, an associate professor of English, and with Dr. Kenneth Robbins,...
Kaczvinsky increases knowledge on book illustration
Louisiana Tech’s director of the School of Literature and Language received an opportunity recently to investigate the way books from the 15th to 21st century were illustrated. Dr. Donald P. Kaczvinsky attended the Rare Book School at the...
Louisiana Tech professor receives patent for electromagnetic technology
United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Mark DeCoster, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, for his invention of an “Electromagnetic Probe Device” – an innovative technology developed at...
Associate dean to serve as Tech’s summer commencement speaker
Louisiana Tech’s summer graduation will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19 at the Thomas Assembly Center, and Dr. James D. Nelson has been chosen to serve as keynote speaker. Nelson is the associate dean for undergraduate studies in Tech’s College...
French professor presides over a special session at national conference
Dr. Dolliann Margaret Hurtig, an associate professor of French at Louisiana Tech, presented at the 88th National Conference of the American Association of Teachers of French held in Philadelphia, Penn. Hurtig presided over the July Session as...