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Troy O’Laughlin
Troy O’Laughlin enjoys his job as a chemical engineering so much he even has a favorite chemical: polyethylene. Who knew? “My last two jobs have involved marketing and manufacturing of high density polyethylene, which is used in applications...

Tech’s Govang one of six scholars to lead LCA’s academic divisions
A proud member of the teaching team of Communication 101 at Louisiana Tech, School of Communication instructor Don Govang is one of six selected scholars statewide to serve as a Division Chair for the Louisiana Communication Association (LCA)....

Clay Baum
Louisiana Tech’s reputation initially brought Clay Baum to the University. The opportunity to learn more about an area that interested him from a very early age brought him to the College of Business as a computer information systems major....
Chemistry seniors and professor publish groundbreaking paper
Brandon J. Cooper and Riley E. Cooper, seniors in the Louisiana Tech University chemistry program, have co-authored a paper which has been published in Dalton Transactions, an international journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry that...

Dr. Michele Maasberg
Service. It’s what drives Dr. Michele Maasberg. In fact, the former naval officer was busy answering questions for this story from 32,000 feet while traveling to an information systems conference where she served as chair for a workshop track....

Department of Communication professor helps bring home poster award
Louisiana Tech University School of Communication faculty member Dr. Kerri Phillips contributed to "Licensure Compacts in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology: Enhancing Service Delivery," a poster and presentation that was recognized as...

Student selected one of three SIGSEC 2018 Doctoral Student Award recipients
The Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) recently selected Sahar Farshadkhah, a Doctor of Business Administration student at Louisiana Tech University, as one of...

Katie Bakalis
Shreveport native Katie Bakalis knew from a young age she wanted to be a veterinarian. The junior in Animal Science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine gives credit to her parents for supporting her from the beginning and giving...

Kenneth Cook
Kenneth Cook came to Louisiana Tech from St. Aloysius High in his hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as an 18-year-old with “no idea,” he said, of what he wanted to do. Still, he came. More than that, he studied, even though he wasn’t happy...

Rick Bordelon
Experiential learning — the process of learning through doing — is a key component of courses at colleges and universities across the nation. At Louisiana Tech, students are given the unique opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the...