NEWS
Music department hosts Cajun-themed fundraiser
Louisiana Tech’s department of music will host its third annual scholarship fundraiser, “Cajun Cabaret” from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, March 25. Event highlights include a Mardi Gras-themed buffet featuring chicken and sausage jambalaya and shrimp...
Tech journalism students take home top awards
Louisiana Tech journalism students and the student-run newspaper, The Tech Talk, received top-tier rankings and a multitude of awards this past weekend at the Southeast Journalism Conference at Troy University in Alabama. In addition to...
School of Art hosts its first national juried art exhibition
Louisiana Tech’s School of Art will host its first national juried art exhibition, “Louisiana Purchase: National Biennial Juried Exhibition” March 2 through April 7. This is a multimedia show for two-dimensional works, including video,...
Tech jazz ensemble spices up weekend
The Louisiana Tech Jazz Ensemble will perform its annual winter concert Friday, Feb. 18 in Howard Auditorium, Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Under the direction of Lawrence Gibbs, associate professor of...
Tech artist to exhibit in Paris
Katherine Amman Vellard, a professor of art at Louisiana Tech, will have an exhibition of her work at Centre D’Arts Plastiques Albert Chanot in Clamart, a suburb of Paris, France. The opening reception is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, March...
Tech history department plans Black History Month events
Louisiana Tech’s history department is sponsoring two events that will be held at the Lincoln Parish Library in honor of Black History Month. The first event will be held Thursday, Feb. 10 and will feature Dr. Marko Maunula, an associate...
Photography students recognized in ‘Best of College Photography’
Two Louisiana Tech photography majors have been selected as finalists for an international contest. Jennifer Martin, a senior photography major from Ruston, and Brooke Humphreys, a junior photography major from Denham Springs, were the...
‘Love songs’ to be featured in Tech performance
The Louisiana Tech Percussion Ensemble will perform a plethora of songs in an upcoming concert held in Howard Auditorium. Featured in the program will be songs from David Skidmore's "Love Songs (Book One)” and Austrian composer Manu Delago's...
Winter concert brings out composers’ classics
The Louisiana Tech choirs will perform their Winter Choral Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15 in Howard Auditorium. The choirs will perform music composed by Arcadelt, Palestrina, Brahms, Mozart, Chilcott, Dandridge, and more. Additionally,...
Prison journalism and Angola Prison media to be focus of conference presentation
When most people think about “journalism,” they traditionally think newspapers and TV news. Most never consider or don’t realize that journalism can be practiced in unconventional places, such as prisons. From behind barbed wire fences,...