Louisiana State University News

"Uncle Jack" won't be returning to Natchitoches. The city of Natchitoches had inquired about having the cast-iron statue of "Uncle Jack" -- which the city said is "the first known statue of a black man in the United States" -- returned to the city.

When your parents told you there are plenty of fish in the sea, they knew what they were talking about.

A provocative new report being released on Wednesday by the Institute for Higher Education Policy argues that much of the data that is used to compare higher-education systems in the United States and other countries is poorly understood and analyzed, and that the comparisons themselves therefore end up being misinterpreted and easily manipulated.

Police say an LSU transfer student from the United Kingdom has been accused of repeatedly raping a woman on campus over the weekend.

Instead of worrying about whether it has too many state universities, Louisiana should focus on making them the best they can be, says a Colorado-based expert who is serving on a panel to reduce Louisiana's higher education costs.

Del Archuleta, chairman of the presidential search committee, announces Tuesday that out of 60 applicants and 18 interviews the committee has narrowed down the field and recommends five candidates for president to the New Mexico State University Board of Regents.

Last summer, when New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin proposed moving city government into the vacant Chevron building, an anonymous-looking 1980s office tower shoehorned among similar Central Business District buildings, many derided the proposal, saying the seat of local government should make an architectural statement about the community.

Two of five finalists who hope to become New Mexico State University's next president resigned from universities in Illinois and North Carolina in the wake of separate scandals.

Savanna trees such as these pines may help facilitate frequent fires in order to prevent other trees from displacing savanna trees and shifting the community from an open savanna to a closed forest.

The Louisiana State University AgCenter has received two specialty crop block grants for two research and promotion projects to enhance the competitiveness of Louisiana-grown sweet potatoes and nursery crops.

Travis Kelton "T.K." Hill III was sentenced at the Highlands county Courthouse on Monday to four years in state prison and six years mandatory probation.

Rock Hill Capital Group , a Houston-based private equity firm, today announced that one of its portfolio companies, Integrated A/V Systems, LLC , also headquartered in Houston, has successfully completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Creative Presentations, Inc.

Brooks Keel will be the 12th president of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, the state Board of Regents announced Monday.

A walk in the thriving sugar cane fields of the Louisiana State University AgCenter's Sugar Research Station in St.

From the Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Clinical Sciences , School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.

NEW ORLEANS - The global economic recession is taking a bite out of an unlikely industry: the American alligator market.

When the American Academy of Family Physicians announced it had received a substantial grant to enhance educational information about nutrition on its FamilyDoctor.org site, you'd think health experts would have been happy.

The global economic recession is taking a bite out of an unlikely industry: the American alligator market.

The Baton Rouge Area Convention Center held a news conference today at 11:00 am to announce the first annual Bayou Country Superfest.

The Plague Files -- Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook, Louisiana State University '09,$40, 296 pages, ISBN #080713404X. Index, bibliography, glossary,footnotes,grouping of b&w images.