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Members of the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers build a concrete canoe to race at the 2016 ASCE Deep South Regional Conference at McNeese State University.

Engineering students prepare to compete in concrete canoe competition

By Katie Gagliano March 9, 2016

After four months and more than 2,000 labor hours, the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is ready to row. The organization’s team is competing in a series of concrete...

Marine Ashley Horton attends the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities offered by LSU’s Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institue on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 in the Business Education Complex.

Bootcamp supports veterans’ business ventures, skills

By Katie Gagliano March 3, 2016

Ashley Horton’s service dog Bailey is more than a companion, she’s the inspiration behind Horton’s fledgling business venture. Horton, a participant in the University’s Entrepreneurship...

Interior design fresnman Amanda Campos is one of the recipients of a scholarship from the College of Art and Design, funded by the Hearst Foundation on Monday March 1, 2016.

Hearst Foundations grant encourages minority students to pursue art and design degrees

By Tia Banerjee March 3, 2016

In an effort to diversify the students who apply to the LSU College of Art and Design, the Hearst Foundations granted $80,000 to the college over the summer. The Hearst Foundations, a philanthropic organization...

Thomas Galligan Jr. was named the dean of LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center Thursday, Feb. 4.

Thomas Galligan Jr. accepts Law Center dean position

By Tia Banerjee February 4, 2016

Thomas Galligan Jr., who has served as president of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire since 2006, was named the next dean of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, according to an email sent out...

Architecture Freshman design cardboard clones on Monday, February 01, 2016, and display them around the Quad.

Architecture students create life-size, gameday-themed figures using recycled cardboard

By Lily Aguillard February 1, 2016

On Monday morning, the Art and Design Building’s architecture studio was filled with 76 human figures. Only 38 were alive. Architecture students sat beside life-size cardboard clones of themselves...

A student using a computer inside of Middleton Library.

Computer science recruitment campaign promotes skill development, offers scholarship opportunity

By Katie Gagliano February 1, 2016

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is playing games. Today, the computer science department is launching the Code IT Up Challenge, an interactive gaming experience that gives prospective...

Petroleum engineering instructor Frederick Thurber teaches his intro-level class Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

Oil market brings uncertainty to student job prospects

By Sam Karlin January 31, 2016

As most students poured into the parking lots to leave campus on a gray, tepid Monday afternoon, about 30 of them stuck around to file into a Tureaud Hall second floor classroom, awaiting the beginning...

New STEM initiative offers support, guidance to minority women

By Allyson Sanders January 26, 2016

The LSU Office of Diversity and African American Cultural Center are introducing a new initiative this semester to provide support and unity to minority women in STEM fields. The STEM Women of Color Initiative...

A student fills out the Free Application for Federal Aid (FAFSA) form on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, in Hodges Hall.

All LA high school students to fill out FAFSA before graduating by 2018

January 18, 2016

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved a measure in December to push more students toward colleges by requiring them to fill out financial aid forms to graduate high school. The...

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, gives a talk to LSU students in the Journalism Building on Nov. 30.

New York Times executive editor discusses the future of journalism with LSU students

By Caitlin Burkes November 30, 2015

Dean Baquet, executive editor for The New York Times, returned to his Louisiana roots Monday to speak to LSU students in the Journalism Building’s Holliday Forum. In addition to serving as the first...

LSU Coastal Roots program celebrates 15 years by expanding international program

LSU Coastal Roots program celebrates 15 years by expanding international program

By Caitlin Burkes November 8, 2015

The LSU project-based Coastal Roots program celebrates its Quinceañera with the launch of another Chilean branch of its program in the city of Concepcion. In its 15 years in existence, it has served...

Law Center

The Civilian implements Diversity Task Force recommendations

By Trent Parker October 21, 2015

Complaints about allegedly inappropriate content in the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center’s student newspaper The Civilian prompted the school’s Diversity Task Force to include recommendations...