Alex Tupper awakes in the early morning to a banging at his door. He hears a voice yell, “Alex, get up ... we need your help!”
Tupper rushes frantically to the not-yet-open medical...
Estimate the percentage of female full professors nationwide. You probably guessed about 40 or 50 percent — and if you did, you’re wrong.
Make no mistake about it — academia is still...
Professor Steven Barker is a curious, if strange, man. And he does little to hide it, if he does so at all.
With 28 years of work at the University behind him, this particular afternoon sees Barker smiling...
Andrew Harlow’s Tumblr site is characterized by a stark white background offset by a stream of artistic images framed in a vertical column — elegant black and white photography, fashion forward...
As a sophomore in high school, current LSU wide receiver Armand Williams had only two choices: remain with his mother as they faced a second eviction notice, or enter the home of relative strangers. Armand...
As I looked across the coziness of my grandmother’s house, something struck me as shockingly familiar.
My grandmother was hard at work in the kitchen while my grandfather sat in his old recliner...
As a black man persevering in the sweltering racial oppression of deep south, 1960s Louisiana, Wharlest Jackson was moving up in the world by most measures.
A veteran of the Korean War, he was the father...
Two hundred pairs of eyes in are fixed on Laurie Chancey. She’s teaching Introduction to Sociology to a room full of students who hold a degree she doesn’t.A
Chancey, a 31-year-old...
