14 Must-Do Things in Lafayette While You're in Grad School
Lafayette is a vibrant, buzzing city that has something for everyone.
Lafayette is a vibrant, buzzing city that has something for everyone.
Will President Biden’s Student Loan Debt Relief plan affect your financial planning as a graduate student?
At a recent grad town hall, Dr. Brian Bolton, Professor of Finance, and Dr. Philip de Mahy, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, discussed key aspects of the student loan forgiveness initiative and what it means for grad students. Here are a few key takeaways on how the plan may inform your financial decisions.
The Graduate School has awarded the 2022 Distinguished Dissertation Award to Alise Chabaud Hagan, Ed.D in Educational Leadership. The award recognizes exceptional work by doctoral students that exemplifies the highest levels of scholarship, research, and writing.
Dr. Roger Rholdon is the SLEMCO/BORSF III Endowed Professor of Nursing in the LHC Group · Myers School of Nursing. His research interests include infant safe sleep practices and the teaching of evidence-based practice to nursing students.
Dr. James Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Biology whose areas of research include marine ecosystem ecology, marine fishes, food webs, and stable isotope analysis. He holds the Fritz Lang Foundation Endowed Professorship in Environmental Biology (BORSF).
Fiction writer Dr. Sadie Hoagland is an associate professor in the Department of English. She is the author of the novel “Strange Children” and the short story collection “American Grief in Four Stages.” She has also published work in The Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist Journal, Oyez Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, South Carolina Review and elsewhere.
Dr. Christopher Giroir is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Foundations & Leadership. He also is the graduate coordinator for the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership program.
Dr. Magdy Bayoumi is the department head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise includes sensing technologies and sensor nodes, data processing, and the management of energy applications to military and security fields.
Dr. Hisham Daoud’s research on efficient seizure prediction could improve the lives of millions of people living with epilepsy.
Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. candidate Ronald Kittle has received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
Kittle has built an impressive record of supporting faculty and undergraduate students in the classroom in his role as a graduate teaching assistant.