NEWS

New Teacher Experience partnership launches to provide support for state educators
Louisiana Tech University’s College of Education will lead a key initiative from the Louisiana Department of Education that is designed to support new teachers in the state this year.

Graduates honor their parents through garden endowment
After losing both their parents just a few months apart, Louisiana Tech graduates Steve Fisher and Beth Fisher Dauzat wanted to honor their memory.
Tech wins Best of District IV Case Award
Louisiana Tech University’s Division of Advancement has won Best of District award for CASE District IV. This award acknowledged the Division’s work to celebrate the career moves of Louisiana Tech alumni.

Reception, artist talk for new SOD exhibit scheduled Tuesday
For more than 20 years, award-winning artist David Hamlow of Minnesota has illustrated through his two and three-dimensional elements of large-scale installations the negative impact of consumer waste and the possibility of a creative, collaborative-alternative future.

Students encouraged to participate in Civic Engagement Survey
Louisiana Tech University students are embarking on a project to increase student civic engagement both on campus and in the community.
Hurtig completes fourth volume on using cinema to teach French
Dr. Dolliann Hurtig, Professor of French in the School of Literature and Language at Louisiana Tech University, has had her fourth volume of Allons au cinéma: Promoting French through Films, published by the American Association of Teachers of French.

Construction Engineering Technology Surveying option provides student with internship opportunity
When Construction Engineering Technology senior and Oak Grove native John Kyler Hill learned that the program was offering a Surveying option, he knew he’d found the perfect course sequence to prepare him for the career he wanted.
Cyber security meets murder mystery in transdisciplinary collaboration
What would it look like if students were able to gain hands-on experience in interdisciplinary fields of study, such as cyber and liberal arts, through role-play gaming?

Louisiana Tech ranked second in state on USNWR Best Global Universities list
Louisiana Tech University was ranked the No. 2 public university in the state of Louisiana among the top 2,000 universities in the world on the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Global Universities list. The list was released today.

‘Pruitt-Igoe Myth’ documentary, talk to be held Oct. 25
Pruitt-Igoe opened in 1954 as a housing marvel in St. Louis, billed as the solution to the overcrowding and deterioration that plagued the inner city. It was leveled less than 20 years later, and the conclusions drawn from its lessons most likely blurred with time.