February 4, 2013
Committee hopes to have LSU head by June
The Advocate
LSU has about 30 candidates on the short list to become the university’s next president, but the public should not expect to learn who any of them are until a finalist is chosen, university officials said Friday. ...
University search for president continues
Daily Reveille
The Presidential Search Committee began narrowing down a strong yet confidential pool of candidates attracted to the combined position of LSU System president and University chancellor in a meeting Friday. Interim University Chancellor and System President William “Bill” Jenkins said the search should conclude in June, ...
Chancellor position has attracted strong candidate pool
Daily Reveille
The combined position of University chancellor and president has attracted a strong pool of candidates from across the country, R. William Funk and Associates Founder and President Bill Funk told the Presidential Search Committee Friday. The committee transitioned into a private executive session ...
College cuts spark dispute on numbers
The Advocate
Louisiana’s higher education chief and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration are at odds over how to frame the depth of state budget cuts to public colleges, in a gloomy dispute that only five years of continued financial reductions can offer. Is the cut $625 million? $294 million? $419 million? How about $220 million? ...
Chancellors say reorganization will streamline efficiency
Daily Reveille
Baton Rouge isn’t the only LSU campus with a strong opinion about the system reorganization. Together, the LSU campuses in Alexandria, Eunice and Shreveport, alongside LSU in Baton Rouge, make up the LSU System that is undergoing a reorganization process ...
University moves focus to online programs
Daily Reveille
The Board authorized an assessment structure for LSU Online, a new program that will offer four graduate degrees. The University anticipates initiating these first four online programs March 4, said Carolyn Hargrave, LSU System vice president for Academic Affairs and Technology Transfer. ...
Faculty frustrated with stagnant salaries
Daily Reveille
As the University approaches its fifth year without faculty pay increases, faculty members expressed their frustration in a recent news release that highlights the effect state appropriations have on salaries and faculty retention. ...
LSU Foundation may build new headquarters
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
LSU Foundation representatives are talking to potential donors about the possibility of building a new headquarters near the site of the old Alex Box Stadium. Spokeswoman Sara Crow says the foundation has run out of space in its current, rented home at the Lod Cook Alumni Center ...
The star explosion that wasn't: Astronomers solve 150-year-old mystery
NBC News
To solve the 150-year-old mystery, Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University dug through the records of the Royal Society in Britain, to which Herschel donated his papers. Schaefer was unable to find the astronomer's original chart, but he found the second best thing: a copy made by Herschel ...
Local filmmaker Godshall to speak at TEDxLSU
Daily Reveille
University students and attendees of the TEDxLSU talks in March will have the opportunity to hear about the evolving nature of filmmaking from seasoned local screenwriter and filmmaker Zack Godshall. Godshall, independent filmmaker and screenwriter-in-residence for the University, ...
Work of Memphis Group artist Peter Shire on display in 3-part retrospective
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Three venues across Baton Rouge feature Shire's work in a massive retrospective that opened Thursday (Jan. 31). The LSU Museum of Art, the Glassell Gallery and the LSU Union Art Gallery all got a slice of the 98-piece pie. The pie includes sculptures, furniture, prints, ceramics and even teapots ...
LSU Union Theater presents March performances, tickets available
WVLA-TV
The LSU Union Theater’s Great Performances series continues in March with the Comedy Tonight series “Sister’s Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny Go to Heaven?” on Saturday, March 2 at 7:30p.m. Find out the origins of Easter traditions like egg hunts and chocolate bunnies in a wHOLY hysterical ...
LSU Libraries to hold inaugural film series throughout Spring 2013 semester
WVLA-TV
LSU Libraries invites the public to take part in its inaugural film series, which will feature four films during the Spring 2013 semester. All films will be shown in the lecture hall in Hill Memorial Library at 2:00 p.m. each day. Admission is free of charge to each event, ...
LSU alumna signs book about A.P. Tureaud
Daily Reveille
University alumna Rachel Emanuel spoke of the importance of the civil rights movement in public education at the LSU Bookstore Saturday during a book signing for “A More Noble Cause: A.P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana”, the biography of A.P. Tureaud. ...
Pilot program allows free scans at library
Daily Reveille
Middleton Library patrons can now easily scan books, articles and just about anything else for free with the advent of a new pilot program. Elissa Plank, LSU Libraries head of circulation services, said the library received a public access scanner kiosk last week. ...
Man admits to food scam
The Advocate
The scheme was probed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations along with the LSU Police, said Raymond R. Parmer Jr., special agent in charge of HSI’s New Orleans office, in a written statement. ...
LSU raises pay for Miles
The Advocate
The LSU Board of Supervisors on Friday approved a two-year contract extension for football coach Les Miles that should keep him in Baton Rouge through 2019. The deal bumps Miles’ annual salary from $3.751 million to $4.3 million over the seven-year term. ...
Artist’s mural depicts just some of LSU’s many legends
The Advocate
New players take the field each year, and many of them become legends. LSU has a lot of them, and Barbier had to choose exactly which legends to highlight to fill a bare wall in the Pastime Restaurant’s dining room. ...
LSU cuts ribbon on Wally Pontiff Jr. Baseball Hall of Fame
The Advocate
LSU held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday night to mark the completion of the Wally Pontiff Jr. Baseball Hall of Fame in Alex Box Stadium. Located on the ground level, third-base side of the stadium, the Hall of Fame celebrates the history of LSU baseball through words, photographs and video. ...