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Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences Faculty Receive Largest NSF PFI Grant Ever Awarded to ÃÛÌÒAPP

Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences Faculty Receive Largest NSF PFI Grant Ever Awarded to ÃÛÌÒAPP

Nootkatone Studies Could Lead to Prevention of Lyme Disease. ÃÛÌÒAPP Chemical Engineering (ChE) Professor Kerry Dooley, ÃÛÌÒAPP ChE Department Chair and Professor Mike Benton, and ÃÛÌÒAPP Department of Biological Sciences (Biol. Sci.) Professor Roger Laine will continue their work on a project that could bring affordable and effective insect repellent to the masses, possibly decreasing the number of Lyme disease, malaria, and West Nile virus cases around the world.

SPRING 2024 RUCKS FELLOWS ANNOUNCED

Spring 2024 Rucks Fellows Announced

The Rucks Department of Management at the E. J. Ourso College of Business acknowledges outstanding students as Rucks Fellows. These students are chosen by the faculty and represent the highest level of academic achievement among senior management majors in any of the department's concentrations. To be eligible, the student must be among the top graduating seniors in the management curriculum based on their grade-point average; honorees are announced in the fall and spring semesters.

ÃÛÌÒAPP ANNOUNCES DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH MASTERS

ÃÛÌÒAPP Announces Distinguished Research Masters

Each year, ÃÛÌÒAPP's Office of Research & Economic Development honors the exceptional research and scholarship of two ÃÛÌÒAPP faculty as Distinguished Research Masters.

Calcea Johnson

ÃÛÌÒAPP Freshman Discovers New Pythagorean Theorem Proof While in High School

An ÃÛÌÒAPP freshman is on her way to having her name and work part of mathematics history. Meet Calcea Johnson. While in high school in New Orleans, Johnson discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

Group photo of students attending freshman convocation

Spring 2024: ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport Breaks Enrollment Record With More Than 10,000 Students

ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport has smashed its previous enrollment record, recording a final spring 2024 enrollment of 10,214. This marks an enrollment increase of nearly 1,500 students over spring 2023, a 17 percent jump.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Petroleum Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Track Subsurface CO2 Flow

ÃÛÌÒAPP Petroleum Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Track Subsurface CO2 Flow

ÃÛÌÒAPP Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Associate Professor Mehdi Zeidouni is the recipient of a $252,160 grant from the ÃÛÌÒAPP Institute for Energy Innovation for his work on tracking subsurface carbon dioxide flow and well-sealing capacity in Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) projects.

Mekkah Husamadeen represents ÃÛÌÒAPP Law, National Black Law Students Association on the global stage during service trip to Ghana

Mekkah Husamadeen represents ÃÛÌÒAPP Law, National Black Law Students Association on the global stage during service trip to Ghana

Husamadeen was elected to serve as NBLSA Attorney General last summer and was among five members of the NBLSA Executive Board selected for the expedition, which took place just after the first of the year.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Libraries Hosts 2024 Audubon Day

ÃÛÌÒAPP Libraries Hosts 2024 Audubon Day

For its annual Audubon Day, ÃÛÌÒAPP Libraries will host a viewing of the famed double elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America (London, 1827-1838) on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Hill Memorial Library on ÃÛÌÒAPP’s main campus. Audubon was a talented and complicated artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His illustrated compendium of the birds in the United States, Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

ÃÛÌÒAPP-Developed Vaccine Could Save U.S. Cattle Industry $1 Billion Annually

ÃÛÌÒAPP-Developed Vaccine Could Save U.S. Cattle Industry $1 Billion Annually

An ÃÛÌÒAPP researcher has developed a new vaccine against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and related illnesses that kill around 8 million calves each year and cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion.

Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building rendering

STEM Win: ÃÛÌÒAPP Breaks Ground on Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building

ÃÛÌÒAPP broke ground on Friday, March 15, on the Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building, having achieved a $148 million funding goal to expand research and teaching laboratories in science fields.

Murray Selected Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors

ÃÛÌÒAPP Professor Kermit Murray Selected Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors

Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry Kermit K. Murray has been selected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. This year's class comprises 124 accomplished academic inventors representing 60 research universities, governmental entities and nonprofit institutes worldwide. The Senior Member program is an exclusive award created to showcase the innovative ecosystems at NAI member institutions, like ÃÛÌÒAPP, which provide the supportive environment to foster novel discoveries. Senior members are chosen from active faculty, scientists, and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization who have produced technologies that have the potential for a real impact on the welfare of society.

Community Garden

Strengthening Communities: Empowering Food Pantries in Rural Louisiana

Food insecurity, poverty, and obesity rates in Louisiana's rural parishes are often above the national and state averages. Since 2018, the ÃÛÌÒAPP AgCenter Healthy Communities team has worked with charitable food sites like food pantries to make healthy foods more accessible.

ÃÛÌÒAPP BUSINESS STUDENT EARNS THIRD PLACE IN NATIONAL CYBER THREAT COMPETITION

ÃÛÌÒAPP Business Student Earns Third Place in National Cyber Threat Competition

ÃÛÌÒAPP Information Systems and Decision Sciences (ISDS) major Daniel Lichowid Jr. placed third in the 2024 Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Cyber Threat Competition, held at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas from Feb. 15-17. Out of approximately 1,500 students, Lichowid was one of 60 individuals to move onto the final round, cementing himself in the top 5% of all participants.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Director of Bands Damon Talley Elected to American Bandmasters Association

ÃÛÌÒAPP Director of Bands Damon Talley Elected to American Bandmasters Association

ÃÛÌÒAPP's Paula G. Manship Professor and Director of Bands Damon Talley was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association (ABA), considered one of the highest honors in the nation for a wind band conductor, the ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Music announced Tuesday.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Law Professor Lisa Avalos

ÃÛÌÒAPP Law Professor Lisa Avalos selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to complete research on forthcoming book in United Kingdom

ÃÛÌÒAPP Law Professor Lisa Avalos has received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to conduct research on her forthcoming book, She Must Be Lying to Us! When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime, in the United Kingdom during the 2024-25 academic year.