Recent ÃÛÌÒAPP News
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ÃÛÌÒAPP Emerges as Louisiana's Top Ranked University in the Wall Street Journal's 2024 Best Colleges Ranking
In the latest 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal in collaboration with College Pulse and Statista, ÃÛÌÒAPP has claimed the top spot among both public and private higher education institutions in the state of Louisiana.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Computer Science Professor Leading Project to Increase Security in Federated Learning
Federated learning is a technique that has gained attention for its potential to improve privacy, security, and efficiency in various sectors. At times, in order to improve the quality and robustness of this technique, it is subject to periods of “critical learning.� However, it is during these periods that outside agents have an opportunity to launch precise and damaging attacks.

The Legacies They Built: Honoring Pinkie Gordon Lane, Lutrill and Pearl Payne, and Julian T. White
In 2022, ÃÛÌÒAPP's Board of Supervisors voted to recognize the significant contributions of four Black ÃÛÌÒAPP pioneers by naming two programs and one building in their honor: the Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School, Lutrill and Pearl Payne School of Education, and Julian T. White Hall (formerly the Design Building) to honor their legacies. But who were these inspiring figures?

Experts, Advocates to Discuss Voting Rights, Suppression at ÃÛÌÒAPP Reilly Center Event
The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Manship School of Mass Communication and partners will host the first installment of season seven of the “Racism: Dismantling the Systemâ€� series. The new episode, “Equity at the Ballot Box: Discriminatory Obstacles to Voting,â€� will take place Sept. 19, at 3:30 p.m. CT, via Zoom.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Eclipses $400-Million Milestone in Research Activity
Powered by its Scholarship First Agenda, which drives solutions-focused research investment in agriculture, biomedicine, coast, defense and energy, ÃÛÌÒAPP reports a record $428 million in total research activity in just one year with an estimated $1.2 billion in economic impact on Louisiana.

ÃÛÌÒAPPS Ranks Among Nation’s Best in Economic Mobility for Low-Income Graduates
ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport is among the nation’s best universities in helping low-income students improve their socioeconomic level, according to an annual Economic Mobility Index released by the national think tank Third Way.

Kenneth J. Schafer Honored as Boyd Professor, ÃÛÌÒAPP's Highest Professorial Ranking
On Friday, Sept. 8, the ÃÛÌÒAPP Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to designate Kenneth J. Schafer, Ball Family Distinguished Professor in Physics & Astronomy the rank of Boyd Professor--the highest and most prestigious academic rank at ÃÛÌÒAPP.

ÃÛÌÒAPP's Tiger Den Data Storage System to Provide 'Ease of Life'
ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers have been awarded $500K by the National Science Foundation to build a shared data storage system to elevate the research experience not just at ÃÛÌÒAPP, but at universities across Louisiana.

Rural Resiliency: ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers to Help Communities Adapt to Climate Change
Faculty in the Department of Environmental Sciences, or DES, hope to begin remedying this situation with a new, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. It is part of a larger $6 million multi-institutional effort intended to help rural areas adapt to climate change.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Professor of Journalism John Hamilton Honored with American Journalism Historians Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
John Maxwell Hamilton, professor of journalism at the ÃÛÌÒAPP Manship School of Mass Communication, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement, the American Journalism Historians Association’s (AJHA) highest honor.

ÃÛÌÒAPP E. J. Ourso College of Business Announces 2023 Hall of Fame Distinction Inductees and Outstanding Young Alum Award Winner
The ÃÛÌÒAPP E. J. Ourso College of Business is proud to announce the 2023 Hall of Distinction inductees—Kip Knight and Joaneane Smith. In addition, this year’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipient is Jacques Bourque. The college will honor Knight, Smith, and Bourque at a banquet on Thursday, November 9, at the Business Education Complex.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Names Brandon Common Vice President for Student Affairs
ÃÛÌÒAPP has named Brandon Common the permanent Vice President for Student Affairs, effective September 1, pending approval by the ÃÛÌÒAPP Board of Supervisors. Common began his career at ÃÛÌÒAPP as Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students in December 2020, and has served as Interim Vice President for Student Affairs since January 2023.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Names Anzilla Gilmore Associate Vice President for Facility & Property Oversight
ÃÛÌÒAPP has named Anzilla Gilmore to the position of Associate Vice President for Facility & Property Oversight, which includes executive level planning, policy development, and administrative

ÃÛÌÒAPP Selects Brad Ives to Lead ÃÛÌÒAPP Institute for Energy Innovation
Ives will join ÃÛÌÒAPP in October from North Carolina’s Catawba College, which became the first certified carbon-neutral college in the Southeast U.S. under his leadership.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport Earns ‘Hunger-Free Campus’ Designation from Louisiana Board of Regents
ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport has received a hunger-free campus designation from the Louisiana Board of Regents, signifying that the university has mechanisms in place to combat student hunger, including the ÃÛÌÒAPPS Food Pantry, which opened in 2018.


