GRAMBLING, Louisiana, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- Grambling State University issued the following news: Building on a legacy of collaboration and community engagement with Louisiana since 2017, the Let Us Dream organization has partnered with Grambling State University (GSU) as the host location for the 2024 Let Us Dream Conference. Set for October 31, 2024, on the campus of Grambling State University in the Betty E. Smith Nursing Building, this year's theme is "Cultural Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Commu  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Aug. 9 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: QMS2GO, a Louisiana Tech Innovation Enterprise tenant, secured a $25,000 equity investment following its participation in an intensive 10-week accelerator program in New Orleans. This program, featuring over 50 startups from across the United States, saw QMS2GO emerge victorious, bringing both the company and Ruston into the spotlight within the rapidly growing field of climate startups. "We are thrilled to annou  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Aug. 9 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: This school year, Lincoln Parish's kindergarten through second-grade classrooms will embark on a new foundational skills curriculum to enhance students' decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) abilities. The initiative is a partnership between Lincoln Parish Schools and the Teacher Education division of Louisiana Tech University's College of Education and Human Sciences. It focuses on deepening the understandin  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 7 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to only two university consortia to support nuclear security and nonproliferation. LSU researchers will work with colleagues at 15 universities and eight national labs to develop AI models to protect the nation from nuclear threats while training a new generation of d  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Aug. 6 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's Center for Information Assurance has had two significant milestones, leading to increased recognition in cybersecurity research and teaching. The Center, housed in the College of Business, earned the prestigious re-designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and received a $500,000 anonymous gift to sup  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: With faculty research awards up by 70 percent, interest among the nation's best students at an all-time high and an historic expansion underway, Tulane University is an economic and community powerhouse for New Orleans and Louisiana, making an annual $5.2 billion impact on the state's economy, according to a new report (https://impact.tulane.edu/). The impact of the university's operations, capital   more