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Micaela de Gruy Named Prestigious Truman Scholar, Fifth LSU Student to Receive the Award
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has announced that LSU junior Micaela de Gruy of Baton Rouge is among 60 students nationwide to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship. She is the only student from Louisiana selected to receive the Truman Scholarship this year. MORE | PHOTO
Art E. Favre Pledges $1.2 Million to LSU College of Engineering
Art E. Favre has pledged $1.2 million to establish an endowed chair for the benefit of the Department of Construction Management and Industrial Engineering, or CMIE, at LSU in the College of Engineering. Once matched with state funds of $800,000, the chair will total $2 million. MORE
Economic, State Budget Concerns Weigh on Minds of Louisianians
Louisiana may have avoided the full brunt of a national economic recession so far but economic concerns are clearly on the rise, according to the 2009 Louisiana Survey, released by Kirby Goidel, director of LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab. MORE |SUMMARY| FULL REPORT
LSU Professor Named to National Academy of Sciences Panel
Robert Twilley has been selected to serve on the National Academies of Science, or NAS, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress. This panel operates within the NAS Division on Earth and Life Studies as part of the Water Science and Technology Board. MORE
LBTC Named as a Finalist for International Award
The LSU Louisiana Business & Technology Center was named a finalist for the National Business Incubation Association’s 2009 Incubator Innovation Award for its Business Incubator on Wheels program that offers entrepreneurship training to clients in rural, underserved areas and hurricane disaster recovery areas. The winner of the award will be announced April 21, at NBIA’s 23rd International Conference on Business Incubation in Kansas City, Mo. MORE
LSU Student Rediscovers Endangered Honduran Hummingbird
LSU Ph.D. candidate and Honduras bird authority David Anderson has taken a crucial leadership role in an international coalition responsible for rediscovering and developing conservation strategies for a bird with an interesting history – the Honduran Emerald hummingbird. MORE
LSU moves into Top Tier on "U.S. News & World Report" rankings
In U.S. News & World Report's 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges, LSU is ranked in the first tier for "Best National Universities" for the first time. MORE
