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Points of Pride
LSU is much more than a community of students, staff, faculty,
and alumni. From research discoveries and academic honors to athletic
championships and community service projects, LSU has formed a reputation
for itself—one of pride.
 As
the flagship university of Louisiana, LSU is one of the premier
institutions of higher education in the south. The LSU community
is composed of more than 36,000 staff, faculty, and students representing
every state and more than 120 countries. Situated on more than 2,000
acres in Baton Rouge, LSU injects more than a half billion dollars
into the city’s economy each year.
Designated as both a land-grant and sea-grant institution, LSU
is the only public university in the state named as a research-extensive
institution by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University’s
instructional programs include 71 bachelor’s, 72 master’s,
and 54 doctoral degrees.
In addition, LSU can point with pride to the following academic
items.
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LSU has one of the fastest computers in the world. This supercomputer,
named “SuperMike”,
has a computing speed of 2.2 TerraFlops and it is more than
1,000 times faster than a contemporary desktop computer.
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LSU has had 14 students named Rhodes
Scholars, 14 named Goldwater
Scholars, and four named Marshall
Scholars. In 2003 LSU had its first Truman
Scholar.
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With more than 190,000 alumni, LSU has graduates all across
the world.
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For the fourth time, the Department
of Theatre recently won top honors at the Kennedy Center’s
American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C.
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LSU receives approximately $100 million each year for the
University’s more than 2,000 sponsored research projects
underway at any given time.
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LSU is the only university to offer a minor in Cajun
French.
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The graduate program in French
has been recognized as a “center d’excellence.”
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The internationally respected Voegelin Institute of the College
of Arts & Sciences was established in memory of an LSU professor,
Eric Voegelin, who escaped Nazi Germany and taught here from
1942–58. The institute is devoted to the examination of
issues in political philosophy.
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The Department
of Foreign Languages & Literature has an agreement with
the Spanish government for the Spanish Education Project.
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The U.S. Department
of Education Grant for the Enhancement of Asian Studies
is a three-year grant with Southern University that has allowed
LSU’s Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
to hire an assistant professor of Chinese, enhance library collections,
and will bring a series of speakers on China to campus for the
2003–04 academic year.
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The  LSU
Museum of
Natural Science has the foremost graduate program in museum-based
ornithology in the world.
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The Office of Academic
Programs Abroad offers international and national exchange
programs as well as LSU-organized study programs in China, England,
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Senegal, and Spain.
All of these points of pride and more are available online at
www.lsu.edu/didyouknow.
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Written by Jon Fisher | LSU Office of University Relations
Photos by Jim Zietz | LSU Office of University Relations
August 2003
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