NEWS
Music auditions open for incoming freshmen
Louisiana Tech’s department of music is searching for potential majors. The department will host auditions for incoming music and non-music majors on Nov. 6, Jan. 22, Feb. 22, and March 26. Auditions are required for students to be considered...
National exhibition to make stop at Tech
Examples of the best designed book covers of 2009, as decided by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, will be displayed at Louisiana Tech’s School of Art later this month. The selections in AIGA’s annual competition represent the best work...
Robbins’ essay inspired by ‘butoh’
Dr. Kenneth Robbins, director of Louisiana Tech’s School of Performing Arts, has recently had his essay, “The Healing Power of Butoh,” published in the book “Performing Consciousness.” “Butoh” means “dance” in Japanese, and, in his essay,...
Journalism professor to blog for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Will blog for books—or music. Dr. Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, editor of Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, which will released by Lexington Books in December, has been invited to write a series of blogs on music marketing...
Tech grad, UN special expert speaks about work around world
Sometimes one has to take a chance to make a change. With that, UN special expert Clint Williamson told how events in his life came together to take him from a job as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans to a career in the foreign...
Journalism students participate in first-ever prison journalism seminar at Angola
Louisiana’s criminal justice system, like its institutions of higher learning, is staring at a severe budget crisis. Yet, unlike education, it can’t simply let people go in a pinch. And Louisiana needs journalists who are advocates for fixing...
U.S. ambassador, Ruston native to speak at Tech
A U.S. ambassador-at-large and Ruston native will speak at Louisiana Tech Thursday about his work prosecuting international war criminals, especially those involved in the wars in the Balkans during the Presidency of Bill Clinton. Ambassador...
U.S. Marine Band to play for Tech’s Homecoming
After Louisiana Tech’s Homecoming game against Idaho at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, the U.S. Marine Band will close the week-long festivities with a bang. The band, created in 1789 by then-President John Adams, has performed for every U.S....
Tech students to display work in Phoenix show
Two Louisiana Tech students from the School of Art will exhibit their work at a juried show from Oct. 1-29. Graduate student Joli Livaudais Grisham, of Monroe, will exhibit her photograph, “Strange Fruit,” and Jennifer Martin, a junior from...
Tech opens Faculty Recital Series
Louisiana Tech’s School of Performing Arts will kick off its annual Faculty Recital Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 in Howard Auditorium, with a clarinet performance by Lawrence Gibbs, associate professor of music. Gibbs teaches clarinet...