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Journalism department wins top two adviser awards for Lagniappe, Tech Talk
Louisiana Tech’s yearbook, the Lagniappe, and student newspaper, The Tech Talk, have award-winning advisers. Louisiana Press Women has announced its 2011 Communications Contest winners and named Mary May Brown, Lagniappe adviser, the collegiate...
Journalism students sweep LPW news and column writing; bring home 13 awards
Tech journalism students prove they have the ‘write’ stuff. Louisiana Press Women announced its 2011 Communications Contest winners this week, and Tech journalism students brought home 13 awards—including seven first-place awards. “This has...
English professor published in international journal
An article on the literacy of Medieval and Early Modern youth by Dr. Celia Lewis, the Charlyne Smith Wyche Endowed Professor of English and a composition coordinator at Louisiana Tech University, has been published in Children’s Literature, the...
Hurtig publishes book review
A Louisiana Tech associate professor of French recently published a book review in the spring issue of French Review. Dr. Dolliann Margaret Hurtig wrote a review on Christopher Fischer’s most recent book, “Alsace for the Alsatians: Visions and...
Film screening to round out Shaping the 21st Century series
A film screening of the 2010 film, “The Oath,” will finish out this year’s Shaping the 21st Century: Focus on the Middle East series at Louisiana Tech. Directed by Laura Poitras, this documentary follows the intertwined lives of a Yemini...
Simmons publishes fourth book
Dr. Rick Simmons, the George K. Anding Endowed Professor of English and director of the honors program at Louisiana Tech, has had his fourth book, “Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years,” published by The History Press. The book chronicles...
Assistant professor seeks singers for chorus
Sean Teets, Louisiana Tech’s choral activities director and an assistant professor of music, is seeking to restart the North Central Louisiana Masterworks Chorus, a community singing group. Teets said he hopes to reinstate this organization but...
Tech journalism students rack up awards at LPA
Editors and photographers on staff at Louisiana Tech’s student-run newspaper, The Tech Talk, received multiple awards from the Louisiana Press Association, including first, second and third place for Best Sports Photo in the Better Student...
Tech bands to perform near end of the quarter
The Louisiana Tech bands will perform a variety of selections for community members at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 14 to showcase a refurbished instrument and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Dr. Steele Moegle, an associate professor of music, will...
English professor publishes in Faulkner Journal
Dr. Robert Rudnicki, an associate professor and coordinator of graduate studies in English, has published an essay on William Faulkner’s “A Fable” and Cormac McCarthy’s “Suttree” and “Blood Meridian” in the spring issue of the Faulkner Journal,...