NEWS

Register for songwriting masterclass with Grammy-winning Peter Frampton
Louisiana Tech’s School of Music will host a songwriting masterclass with Grammy-winning guitarist Peter Frampton, at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 4.

Tech Debate finishes strong 12th in nation
Louisiana Tech’s Debate Team rode a wave of success in the season’s second half to a 12th place finish nationally against the 137 teams they competed against this year.
Magner serves on faculty of inaugural LARC Mental Health Summit
Dr. Johnette Magner, Assistant Professor in the School of Communications, served on the faculty for the inaugural Mental Health Care Summit sponsored by the Louisiana Addiction Research Center.

Mathematics and Statistics program holds fifth annual integration bee
The Louisiana Tech University Mathematics and Statistics program held its fifth annual Integration Bee April 19.
LS LAMP program increases minority recruiting and mentoring in STEM programs
Four faculty members from three colleges at Louisiana Tech have secured grant funding focused recruiting and mentoring students from minority groups in order to increase their participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Tech Family: Cavin leads SGA, UB for campus
For every on-campus organization, there must be a faculty adviser who oversees all decisions made within the organization. For Union Board and Student Government Association that adviser is Wes Cavin. Cavin has served in this position for three years but Louisiana Tech University has always been in his life story.
South Campus prepares students for future
Located southwest of Louisiana Tech University’s Main Campus sits the home of the School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry, South Campus. While most programs reside on Tech’s Main Campus, a more rural setting provides the students within this school a more valuable learning experience and better prepares them for their respective fields of study.

Doctoral student prepares to graduate, continue parallel computing research
When Computational Analysis and Modeling (CAM) student Wenjing Xu moved from Shanghai to Ruston to study at Louisiana Tech University, he was surprised to arrive in a small town that looked nothing like the America he’d seen in the movies. Now, as he prepares for graduation, he can’t imagine leaving the University and town that has become home to him and his family.

Louisiana Tech’s ASCE competes in Deep South Conference
A team representing Louisiana Tech University made up of student members of the American Society of Civil Engineers presented their design for the Sustainable Solutions Competition at the Deep South Conference. This competition requires participants to create a design for a sustainably constructed park that could be built on a college campus.
International community faces unique challenges during COVID-19
COVID-19 forced Louisiana Tech to switch gears and find new ways to provide students, faculty and staff a quality education and work space while maintaining a safe environment. The international community on campus has experienced this shift in unique ways.