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Louisiana Tech will take time out Saturday, Oct. 18, to meet with prospective students and their families.Time Out for Tech will begin with check-in from 12:20-1 p.m., costs $10 (nonrefundable) per person. That charge includes dinner and admission to the football game...

On the heels of its successful Sci-Fri Parents' Night, Louisiana Tech's IDEA Place will offer Spectacular Saturday Science Sessions.The Saturday sessions will begin Oct. 4 for kindergarten to third-grade students. Fourth- through sixth-graders will have a session Oct....

A weapon was accidentally discharged at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, located adjacent to the Louisiana Tech campus, at approximately 4 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26.A female student sitting outside the house was struck in the arm by a small projectile fragment from...

As a national five-time winner in the "best chapter" competition, Louisiana Tech's Lambda-Rho Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society has received the 2008 Nels A. Cleven Award. The Cleven Award is reserved for those chapters which have exhibited "a...

Following the initial meltdown of the Large Hadron Collider project, officials with Louisiana Tech's physics department now must take a wait-and-see approach as to its restart.Hopes are that the project will begin again in the spring of 2009, after repairs are made...

Six faculty and graduate students from Louisiana Tech's Institute for Micromanufacturing presented their research on nanotechnology at the 236th national meeting of the American Chemical Society held recently in Philadelphia.More than 200 scientists from around...

Louisiana Tech's Prescott Memorial Library will host a reception Oct. 6 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the school's Louisiana State Documents Depository Program.The program has been in operation at Tech since 1948, providing free public access to state-produced...

A Louisiana Tech senior kinesiology major has been chosen as the recipient of Kappa Delta Sorority's Corre Anding Stegall Leadership Award.Tori Harwood, of West Monroe, received her award during the sorority's National Leadership Conference held in Boston. The award...

Lt. Col. Dan Simonsen, Tech's AFROTC commander and professor of aerospace studies, has been named Holm Center 2008 Air Education and Training Command Educator of the Year. The national award honors one officer, one enlisted airman and one civilian who exemplify the...

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