January 28, 2013

LSU sub-committees of transition advisory team features faculty, students
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After the lack of faculty and students on LSU's new transition advisory team, the university has added more than 60 members to participate on five sub-committees designed to generate information in focus areas that will ultimately lead to a more competitive and efficient LSU. ...

Political Horizons: Jindal policies not inclusive
The Advocate
As president of the LSU Faculty Senate, Kevin Cope says he watches higher education. Except for the historically black Southern University system, the boards that run the state’s four-year colleges and universities are populated mostly by white businessmen ...

Business Briefs: LSU gets NASA research grant
The Advocate
LSU is among nine universities receiving grants from NASA for advanced development for the nation’s next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. LSU’s grant will be used to research improved weld techniques. ...

Louisiana ranks high in educational standards, low in student performance
The Advocate
Laura Lindsay, dean of the LSU College of Human Sciences and Education, said school watchers need to pay close attention to details of any report on public schools. ...

Works of artist Peter Shire to be featured at three LSU galleries
The Advocate
The LSU School of Art and the LSU Department of Interior Design also are hosting the largest-ever body of Shire’s work, as the LSU Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art’s Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Gallery and the LSU Student Union Art Gallery ...

Many events scheduled around Peter Shire shows
The Advocate
The LSU Museum of Art has planned several events to coincide with its exhibit, Practically Absurd: Art & Design by Peter Shire, which opens Thursday, Jan. 31, and runs through Sunday, April 14, in conjunction with exhibits ...

More than one man’s treasure
The Advocate
LSU recently became the beneficiary of an old Civil War-era sea chest whose contents researchers believe could be of significant historical importance. The only holdup is determining which items inside the sea chest belonged to its original owner, ...

Our Views: LSU gets a real treasure
The Advocate
Many a boy — and perhaps quite a few girls — have dreamed about finding a treasure chest and seeing what’s inside. That dream came true for faculty at LSU’s Department of Geography and Anthropology recently when the department acquired a sea chest belonging to the late Evelyn Lord Pruitt, ...

Geaux Big Baton Rouge opens registration for service project
Daily Reveille
Registration for the inaugural Geaux Big Baton Rouge service project began last week, providing an opportunity to volunteer at various sites around the Baton Rouge community in April. Geaux Big Baton Rouge is a new student organization ...

LSU AgCenter study probes diet of alligators
The Advocate
Methodically she goes row by row feeding the LSU Agricultural Center’s 80 alligators varying mixtures of the pellet-based diet they live on while in captivity. Williams, a senior research associate with the AgCenter’s Aquaculture Research Station, ...

LSU hospital deals south of I-10 likely by spring
Monroe News-Star
Partnerships that allow private hospitals to take over the operations of LSU's public hospitals in Lafayette, Lake Charles, New Orleans and Houma are expected to be complete in March or April, but there's no deadline on agreements for the three LSU facilities north of Interstate 10. ...