Tech plays host to special needs medical center

Louisiana Tech’s Memorial Gymnasium is sheltering 80 Hurricane Gustav special needs evacuees currently and will house an extra 70 within the next few hours.Alan Perry, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Central California Health Care System,...

Tech prepares for Gustav evacuees

Louisiana Tech is already in preparatory mode to house Nicholls State students in anticipation of Hurricane Gustav.Tech’s Emergency Response Team met Friday to begin executing support components of the Emergency Management Plan, which includes providing support...

Top Dawg Plan Competition searches for top 10 teams

Louisiana Tech’s Top Dawg Plan Competition is looking for students from all majors to make their business ideas a reality.Students are encouraged to enter the inaugural Top Dawg ‘Pick of the Litter’ idea competition during the fall quarter. All...

Department gets a name change

Louisiana Tech’s department of health and exercise sciences will soon become the department of kinesiology.The name change will be effective Sept. 1.Dr. Lanie Dornier, department chair, said the name change will occur in order to be consistent with other...

Louisiana Tech photography students get published

National photography magazines have recognized the talents of Louisiana Tech student photographers, as two have had their works published this summer.Sarah A. Burns, a senior from Haughton, and Andy Bloxham, a graduate student from West Monroe, took the initiative and...

Tech offers 38 new online courses for fall quarter

Louisiana Tech has announced 38 new online courses for the fall quarter, which begins Sept. 4.Louisiana Tech University continues to prepare itself to become a world-class leader in eLearning to offer new educational opportunities for a global community with the...

Summer honor students announced

Louisiana Tech has announced the names of students on its summer quarter President’s and Dean’s honor lists.Students whose names are followed by an asterisk earned recognition as members of the President’s Honor List. That distinction signifies...

Tech adds cyberspace tracks, I/O Ph.D. program

The state will soon have more doctoral graduates from Louisiana Tech to help boost economic development.The university has been approved to establish two cyberspace tracks for two Ph.D. programs: the Ph.D. in engineering and the Ph.D. in computational analysis and...