LU Moment

Welcome Center Director Tracie Craig explains how virtual recruitment, required due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is now an exciting new tool helping LU reach more students. Craig also explains changes in admissions, such as the normalization of GPAs and no-test requirements. 

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For the first time ever, one of LU’s Moot Court Team advanced to the championship round in a Moot Court tournament against 40 other collegiate teams. Shelly Vitanza visits with these history makers – Katey McCall and Ali Hamza - who were also ranked top advocates at the tournament.

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Shelly Vitanza interviews Dr. Praphul Joshi, a public health expert and associate professor who teaches current health issues and social epidemiology. Joshi gives his analysis of the pandemic based on numbers and how he and students are working to create greater prevention awareness and help provide contact tracing.

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Dr. Jerry Lin, associate provost for Research and Sponsored Programs, shares how LU is upping its research effort, the benefit and the community impact.  

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LU’s Deaf Education and Deaf Studies is the only one like it in the state. On this week’s LU Moment, Diane Clark, chair of the department, talks about this unique program and why expanding to a satellite teaching location is so important to Southeast Texas and the nation.

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LU's renowned physicist and recent recipient of a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant, Dr. Philip Cole, joins Shelly Vitanza on the LU Moment this week to talk about dark matter, nucleons…the very stuff of life.

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There’s an exciting new initiative at Lamar University designed to put more STEM-trained teachers in local school districts. Dr. Mamta Singh shares the details of the MASON Stem Initiative and the joy of teaching on this week’s LU Moment.

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Jon Washington, assistant athletic director for external communications, shares how LU’s student athletes have been working in the greater community to help recover from Hurricane Laura on this week’s LU Moment.

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Members of the Coast Guard, working in storm-torn Lake Charles, are living in the Montagne Center. Shelly Vitanza visits with Chief Petty Officer, Brian Shajari, about recovery efforts and their operations.

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This week’s LU Moment is all about students because they are back on campus. The President of the Student Government Association, Trevion Wilson, joins Shelly Vitanza to talk about SGA’s goals this academic school year.

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