Aug 13, 2024
Grandparents, grandkids, and Zoom
Student-researchers partner with Prof. Lauren Myers to examine how families use video chat to interact across distance.
Faculty Profiles
Jul 2, 2024
Mechanical engineering Prof. Ryan Rosario earns $200,000 NSF award
Prof. Ryan Rosario was recently awarded his first National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research on the mechanics of ligament and tendon failure…
Mar 18, 2024
Prof. Mónica Salas Landa to deliver March 25 Jones Faculty Lecture
A little-known petroleum geologist from Texas who explored oil fields in Mexico is the inspiration for Prof. Mónica Salas Landa’s Jones Faculty Lecture…
Mar 11, 2024
Skillman’s Japanese postcard collection attracts international attention
The 400 postcards in the collection were written in Japan in the months immediately after the end of World War II.
Feb 14, 2024
Finding life’s balance in a musical squeeze
Prof. Mary Roth shares a love of music with other engineering faculty and taps into its endless joys to inspire students and her research.
Feb 2, 2024
Prof. Olga Duhl releases new book, ‘The Poetics of Drama and the Drama of Poetics’
Prof. Olga Duhl's new book is the first devoted to the literary representations and ideological functions of the “subject” in a significant body of…
Jan 29, 2024
In the media: WFMZ highlights Lafayette’s partnership with Easton Cemetery
WFMZ featured the work of Paul Barclay, professor of history, and John Wilson, laboratory coordinator in the geology department, to digitize internment…
Jan 29, 2024
In the media: Dean of Libraries Charlotte Nunes featured on New Books Network
Dean of Libraries Charlotte Nunes and co-editor Andi Gustavson, head of research services at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin…
Jan 9, 2024
Prof. Matt Larsen’s research shows charter schools create more competition
As part of his postdoctoral work, Matt Larsen, associate professor of economics, examines the effects of competition among New Orleans charter schools…
Dec 15, 2023
In the media: In Marketplace report, Prof. Julie Smith offers word of the year for Federal Reserve
Prof. Julie Smith was among several economists asked by Marketplace in its Dec. 13 report to offer a word of the year to describe the Federal Reserve's…