If you watched news coverage of the protests in Ferguson, Mo. after a white police officer shot a young, unarmed African American, then you probably took sides: either with the people of Ferguson or with...

It takes a team of thousands to prepare the largest, most theatrical show in Baton Rouge. Designers spend hours each day working on the set to make sure each piece is in place. Choreographers study the...

Present-day south Louisiana looks different than what its greying natives remember, but it's not just Cajun Americanization or desegregation that has changed its look. Over the course of the...

If a young woman in Baton Rouge finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she may be up a creek without a paddle. By the time the second line – the one indicating pregnancy – appears across...

In 1982, late LSU professor and famed ornithologist Ted Parker, along with his Princeton colleague Scott Robinson, set the record for identifying 331 species of birds in 24 hours. The pair remain...

As the world moves forward in hyper sexualized discourse, our grand ole’ South still remains tight lipped and conservative.  So why does an Englishwoman come to the deep American South to study...

At the beginning of each new semester, single students glance around classrooms scanning for attractive seatmates or potential project collaborators. Some of these contacts wilt after one night stands;...

Q  When you first moved to Regina, how different was it from New Orleans? A Well, moving to Canada was kind of like moving from one extreme to another. The people and the culture are very different,...

Proudly sporting his company t-shirt, Johnathan Simoneaux walks into a hot, humid warehouse filled with various disturbing contraptions and creepy oddities. Among everything, one particular monster stands...

Some LSU students don’t know LSU has a rugby team. Some LSU students do, but don’t know much about the sport. “I know there was a movie Invictus, and that’s about it,” says...

When Rheagan Courville and Lloimincia Hall take the mat in gymnastics meets, both women seem superhuman. They fly through the air, moving in seemingly impossible ways as they flip, spin and jump across...

Sarah Guillory’s morning routine is similar to most college students. She wakes up, gets ready, eats breakfast and goes to school or work. The only difference is that she is also responsible for...