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Biology graduate and former LSU supplemental instruction leader Hunter Chapman (middle) bested SI leaders from across the globe to receive the International Award for Supplemental Instruction during the 7th Annual International Conference on Supplemental Instruction.
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Sophie Warney, curator of palynology, and Prosanta Chackrabarty, curator of fishes in the LSU Museum of Natural Science, received a $125,000 teaching grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents to develop Making a Splash with Louisiana Fishes, a new exhibit that opened summer 2012.
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Newly appointed LSU System Boyd Professor James Oxley (fourth from left) is joined by fellow Boyd Professors: (l to r) Meredith Blackwell (biological sciences), H. Jesse Walker (geography and antrhopology), Thomas Klei (parasitology), Robert O'Connell (physics and astronomy) and C. Dinos Constantinides (music). Oxley is the 45th Boyd Professor to be named on the LSU campus and the fourth in mathematics. Other mathematics Boyd Professors are Richard Anderson (1959), Pasquale Porcelli (1965), and Jimmi Lawson (1999).
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Approximately 15 graduate students traveled to Washington, DC, to attend the annual meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), September 25-28, 2012. The students were accompanied by Isiah Warner, LSU System Boyd Professor and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, and Zakiya Wilson, assistant director of graduate studies, and executive assistant and director for STEM Education in the Office of Strategic Initiatives.