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This Week in Pictures | 04/28/2012 - 05/04/2012

Each spring, the LSU Office of the Dean of Students recognizes 12 outstanding seniors who "contribute positively to the life of the campus and surrounding community" as members of the Tiger Twelve. The 2012 Tiger Twelve were honored in a ceremony in the Journalism Building's Holliday Forum on April 28. The members of the 2012 Tiger Twelve are Jessica Rachelle Addison, Jessica Constance Baer, Haley Bove, Amanda Briggs, Stephen G. Collura Jr., Andrew Scott Decker, Eve Marie Franchebois, Stewart Wynn Humble, Mel Acosta Lazo Jr., Hanna Munoz, Mikana Shamia Scott and Theodore B. Williams III. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Professor Hector Zapata was awarded an LSU Alumni Professorship during the annual Distinguished Faculty Awards ceremony. Zapata is pictured with his family, Provost Jack Hamilton and LSU Alumni Association Executive Vice President Cliff Vannoy.
Pictured with Chancellor Michael Martin; Provost Jack Hamilton; and Cliff Vannoy, executive vice president of the LSU Alumni Association, are LSU faculty awards recipients including Laura Mullen, Sarah Liggett, Andreas Giger, James Honeycutt, Kevin Casper, Julia Chan, Marcio de Queiroz and John White. Chancellor Michael Martin; Susan Smolinsky, wife of "Hub" Cotton Award recipient Lawrence Smolinsky; Nathan Crick, Carruth McGehee Award; Kristin Sosnowsky, Brij Mohan Award; Stephanie Kurtz, George Deer Award; Provost Jack Hamilton and LSU Foundation President and CEO Lee Griffin. Chancellor Michael Martin, Phi Kappa Phi Non-Tenured Faculty Award recipients Graham Bodie and Joshua Detre, and Provost Jack Hamilton.
Chancellor Michael Martin; TAF President’s Award recipients Patrick Kolniak, Graham Bodie, Raymond Chastain and Emily Elliott; TAF Assistant Director of Development Rhett Butler; and Provost Jack Hamilton. Chancellor Michael Martin; Rhett Butler, TAF assistant director of development; and Provost Jack Maxwell Hamilton, are pictured with recipients of the TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award. Chancellor Michael Martin; Rhett Butler, TAF assistant director of development; and Provost Jack Maxwell Hamilton, are pictured with recipients of the TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award.
On Monday, April 30, U.S. Sen. David Vitter spoke about “Engineering, Technology and Public Policy for the Common Good” at the College of Engineering’s inaugural Dean’s Lecture Series in the Frank H. Walk Room of the Engineering Lab. LSU held its third annual Spring Greening Day on Friday, April 27. This movement is led by Jan Martin (pictured speaking above), wife of LSU Chancellor Michael Martin. As part of Spring Greening Day, students, staff and faculty participated in beautification projects across campus to both demonstrate and encourage a sense of pride and ownership in the university’s campus – widely renowned as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country.
Spring Greening Day is co-sponsored by the Office of Landscape Services and the Division of Student Life and Enrollment’s Campus Life office in support of the Green Tiger Project. Some areas of interest during Spring Greening Day included Memorial Tower, Tower Drive, Howe Russell and Life Sciences. Chancellor Michael Martin, pictured here with several LSU students, treated current students to free pancakes at the chancellor's pancake breakfast on Tuesday, May 1. Photo provided by Jay High, associate director of Residential Life. Students were treated to free pancakes from 10 p.m. until midnight at The 5 and 459 Commons on Tuesday, May 1, as part of the chancellor's pancake breakfast. Photo provided by Jay High, associate director of Residential Life.
Students took a break from studying to enjoy free pancakes earlier this week. The chancellor's pancake breakfast takes place at the end of every semester prior to finals. Photo provided by Jay High, associate director of Residential Life. The Business Residential College held its annual crawfish boil on Friday, April 27. Since opening its doors in the fall of 2007, the BRC has continuously added to the activities offered to its residents. Some of the crawfish from the Business Residential Complex's annual crawfish boil. The Business Residential College is a living-learning environment where the next generation of business leaders are assisted in acclimating to the culture of the E.J. Ourso College of Business.

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