BATON ROUGE – The LSU community lost one of its most dedicated educators when alumnus and professor emeritus Murray Free Hawkins Jr., passed away March 7. He was 95.
Hawkins joined LSU’s Department of Petroleum Engineering faculty in 1946, beginning a life-long career and dedication to higher education. In 1964, Hawkins ...
LSU Mourns the Loss of Petroleum Engineering Chairman Murray F. Hawkins Jr.
Posted On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Julia Welles Hawkins, Mindy of Jacksonville, Murray F. Hawkins Jr., Petroleum Engineering
BATON ROUGE – The LSU community lost one of its most dedicated educators when alumnus and professor emeritus Murray Free Hawkins Jr., passed away March 7. He was 95.
Hawkins joined LSU’s Department of Petroleum Engineering faculty in 1946, beginning a life-long career and dedication to higher education. In 1964, Hawkins ...
LSU’s Kalliat T. Valsaraj Gives Presentation for ORED Vice Chancellor Position
Posted On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: American Association of Universities, Kalliat T. Valsaraj, ORED, R&D investment, Research and Economic Development
BATON ROUGE – Kalliat T. Valsaraj, associate vice chancellor in the LSU Office of Research and Economic Development and Charles & Hilda Roddey Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, gave a presentation titled “Research and Economic Development: A Conversation with Faculty, Staff and Students,” as part of the interview process for ...
Applications for Paul S. Gravel Federal Intern Scholarship Now Being Accepted
Posted On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: LSU’s Washington office, Paul S. Gravel, SCHOLARSHIP, summer of 2013, undergraduate students
BATON ROUGE – LSU undergraduate students of any major are encouraged to apply for Paul S. Gravel Federal Intern Scholarship for the summer of 2013.
The $2,500 scholarship is awarded each year to a student who participates in an unpaid or under-paid Washington, D.C.-based internship for a policy- or legislative-oriented organization.
The ...
LSU Union Square Parking Garage Now Open
Posted On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Dalrymple Drive, East Campus Drive, parking rates, Raphael Semmes
Students who paid premium parking rates will be credited $40 for opening delay
BATON ROUGE – Located on Raphael Semmes Road between Highland Road and East Campus Drive, the new parking garage at LSU Union Square is now open. The nearly 750 parking spaces will be divided among student parking, faculty ...
First Transition Advisory Team Task Force Groups Meet
Posted On Monday, February 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: administrative services, LSU AgCenter, Revenue Generation, Task Force Groups, Transition Advisory
BATON ROUGE – In another step in the process of reshaping LSU, three Task Force Groups of the Transition Advisory Team held their first meetings on Thursday, Feb. 21, in room 214 of Efferson Hall at the LSU AgCenter.
Task Force Groups have been formed to focus on specific areas of ...
LSU to Host Region VII Science and Engineering Fair
Posted On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Royal Cotillion Ballroom, Science and Engineering Fair, West Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE – LSU will host the Region VII Science and Engineering Fair on Tuesday, Feb. 19, and Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the LSU Student Union’s Royal Cotillion Ballroom on campus. The fair consists of students from middle and high schools in seven parishes including East Baton Rouge, West Baton ...
MBA Women International Sets Date for 2013 Keep The Pace 5K
Posted On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Charlotte Murray Pace, LSU Natatorium Field, MBA Women International, National Association of Women, NAWMBA LSU, non-students
BATON ROUGE – The LSU chapter of MBA Women International, formally the National Association of Women MBAs, will host the fifth annual Keep the Pace 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Friday, March 15. Registration will begin at 5 p.m. at the LSU Natatorium Field off of Nicholson Drive. Proceeds ...
LSU Department of Accounting Offering Tax Assistance
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Accounting Offering Tax Assistance, Caddo Room, Internal Revenue Service, LSU Facility Services, LSU Student Union
BATON ROUGE – The LSU Department of Accounting has announced that it is sponsoring a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or VITA, site, along with the Internal Revenue Service, to provide help to those who qualify this tax season. The tax service is open to anyone, not just those affiliated with ...
LSU Board of Supervisors Holds February Meeting
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: American Council of Education, LSU Board of Supervisors meeting, LSU Football Coach Les Miles, LSU Transition Advisory Team, University of Illinois
BATON ROUGE – During the February LSU Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board approved Memoranda of Understandings or amendments to existing Memoranda regarding the operation of five hospitals; approved amendments to LSU Football Coach Les Miles’ contract; and approved the establishment of an assessment structure for LSU Online, LSU’s online ...
The Southern Review’s Winter 2013 Issue Now Available
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Alison Rossiter grace, Deborah Flanagan, Kevin Prufer, Maggie Smith, Philip Schultz, Southern Review’s, Winter 2013
BATON ROUGE – Light drawings by artist Alison Rossiter grace The Southern Review’s winter 2013 issue, now available for purchase online and in bookstores.
The winter issue features new work by 20 poets, including Deborah Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Kevin Prufer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Schultz, whose poem “A Moment” begins with ...
Gold Medal Architect To Discuss Contemporary Design
Posted On Friday, January 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Edward McDowell Medal, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, sustainable design, Tulane School of Architecture, West and East coasts
World-renowned architect Thom Mayne, who designed houses for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right development in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, will kick off the Tulane University School of Architecture’s spring Eskew+Dumez+Ripple lecture series on Monday (Jan. 28) at the Lavin-Bernick Center on the Tulane uptown campus.
The lecture will ...
LSU Geography and Anthropology Receives Civil War-Era Sea Chest
Posted On Monday, January 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: anthropology, Boyd Professor Emeritus H. Jesse, Civil War-Era, LSU Coastal Studies Institute, Sea Chest
BATON ROUGE – Shipping log books dating back to 1850; diaries from pre- and post-Civil War America; newspaper clippings; and personal items such as photographs, eye glasses, a pocket watch and engraved silverware are just a few of the treasures LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology faculty have discovered in ...
LSU To Celebrate The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under LOUISIANA Tags: Day of Service, East McKinley Street, Martin Luther King Jr., McKinley High School
BATON ROUGE – Born on Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy endures almost 33 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn. As the nation honors the memory of the famed civil rights leader, members of the LSU community celebrate his life and reflect on the way he has ...
