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Tech physicist receives national honor
The Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon) 2012 has honored Dr. Lee Sawyer, the Charles and Newelyn Spruell Distinguished Professor Physics at Louisiana Tech University, with its prestigious Sigma Pi Sigma Award for Outstanding Service....
Journalism students gain mentoring experience through service-learning project
Louisiana Tech students in a sophomore-level journalism class this fall got the opportunity not only to learn how to be better editors, but to also put those skills into practice by mentoring high school students. In Journalism 220: Copy...
National magazine features article by Louisiana Tech business professor
A Louisiana Tech College of Business professor is co-author of an article about predicting presidential elections that has been published in a national popular magazine. The article by Dr. James J. Cochran is titled “Frankenstein for President:...
Commencement ceremonies to conclude fall quarter
Louisiana Tech will hold its fall graduation at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 in the Thomas Assembly Center. Phyllis M. Taylor, chairman and CEO of Taylor Energy Company, LLC, and chairman and president of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, will...
Researchers from Tech to speak at national Air Force symposium
Three Louisiana Tech University researchers and a Louisiana Tech Ph.D. student have been invited to speak as part of this week’s Air Force Global Strike Command’s (AFGSC) annual Technology and Innovation Symposium at Barksdale Air Force Base in...
Tech’s Society of Women Engineers to attend national conference
Thirty-two members of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at Louisiana Tech University will be attending this week’s National SWE Conference in Houston, Texas to participate in a variety of professional development sessions, hear from women...
Student nurses receive honors at state convention
Eleven nursing students from the Division of Nursing Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) represented Louisiana Tech University at the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses (LASN) 58th Annual Convention recently in Kenner, La. The Louisiana Tech...
Forestry professor earns national award from Society of American Foresters
The Society of American Foresters has named Louisiana Tech University School of Forestry Associate Professor and Associate Director A. Gordon Holley as its 2012 Carl Alwin Schenck Award winner. Holley received the award at the 2012 Society of...
Speakers to look at Louisiana’s changing environment
According to historian Carl A. Brasseaux and cultural geographer Donald Davis, important parts of Louisiana’s natural and human environment have become extinct or are on the road to extinction. “Disappearing Before Our Eyes” will be the topic...
Percussion ensemble to perform
Louisiana Tech’s percussion ensemble will take the state at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 in Howard Auditorium. The eclectic program will include a new work for bowed metallophones, which consists of tuned metal bars struck with a hammer; a...