How Louisiana Tech led Laura home to Spud Laura Korus, a proud 2016 Louisiana Tech Psychology graduate, still speaks of her years in Ruston with unmistakable fondness. Recruited to play soccer, she spent four seasons on the pitch, years she now calls some of the most formative of her life. But when her final fall […]
Her Place in the Field
Women Redefining Ag Education As Kylee Triche guided students to their respective contest rooms for the Louisiana FFA Area I Leadership Development Events, she paused to give one nervous student a pep talk before delivering her speech about the Gulf Coast. A sense of calm settled on the student’s face, and in that brief moment, […]
Hope or High Water
Camp Mystic tragedy inspires generosity Emma Foltz, a Louisiana Tech senior in Speech-Language Pathology, was introduced to Camp Mystic during a Phi Mu meeting her sophomore year. She and a few friends took the leap and signed up to be counselors for part of summer 2024. Foltz quickly fell in love with the nearly 100-year-old, […]
Impact Immortalized
Legacy Plaza, a lasting tribute to Joe Aillet and Maxie Lambright for their profound influence on the University and its football tradition, opened this fall on the same day the football team closed its 2025 regular season home schedule with a huge comeback win. Joe Aillet came to Louisiana from New York City on an […]
Barking Up the Right Tree
Audrey Calhoun credits Louisiana Tech for her one-of-a-kind career in forestry Audrey Calhoun, who in 1973 graduated from Louisiana Tech’s School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry, didn’t set out to be a trailblazer. Her original plan wasn’t to become the first female to graduate from Tech with a bachelor’s in Forestry. Or the first black […]
The Crystal Ball of Biotechnology
Louisiana Tech team utilizing AI to predict the future of bacteria behavior As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to drive innovation, Louisiana Tech University remains at the forefront of integrating these groundbreaking tools with biomedical research. Using data and computation to better understand what biology is doing now and what it may do in the future, […]