Rucks Fellows Announced

The 2022-2023 E.J. Ourso College of Business Rucks Department of Management Rucks Fellows are Maxwell Bond, New Orleans; Kylan Borskey, Baton Rouge; Rylie Brown, Baton Rouge; Lauren Craig, Baton Rouge; Dane Eastman, Kingwood, Texas; Andrew Gallmann, Baton Rouge; John Heimendinger, Franklin, Tenn.; Ashley Laughlin, Dallas; Cody Pech, Raceland, La.; and Isiah Travis, New Orleans.

The students, selected by faculty, represent the highest level of academic achievement among senior management majors in any of the department’s concentrations. To qualify, a student must have a grade-point average in the top ten of all graduating seniors in the management curriculum.

Edwards Tapped for LSU ODK

Governor John Bel Edwards delivered the keynote speech at the fall meeting of the Baton Rouge Area ODK Alumni Chapter and was inducted as an honorary member of the LSU Alpha Nu Circle. The Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society annually recognizes and invites into membership the top one percent of juniors and seniors at LSU.

2022 Lsu Roaring 10

LSU announced company rankings for the 12th Annual LSU 100 and LSU ROARING 10 in October.

The LSU 100 celebrates the 100 fastest-growing LSU graduate-owned or LSU graduate-led businesses in the world.

The LSU ROARING 10 list celebrates the ten highest revenue-generating businesses from those that apply for the LSU 100.

The 2022 ROARING 10 are Turner Industries Group, LLC; HNTB Corporation; Performance Contractors, Inc.; LIPSEY’s, LLC; The Newtron Group, LLC; PSC Group; Christus Health-Louisiana & Southeast Texas; Provident Resources Group, Inc.; Danos; and Safety Management Services, LLC

LSU Executive Education hosts the LSU 100 event with partners Postlethwaite & Netterville, the Tiger Athletic Foundation, and E. J. Ourso College of Business Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems.

Sponsors are 1Bank, Lee Michael’s Fine Jewelry and Distinctive Gifts, the LSU Alumni Association, Vivid Ink Graphics, and Gatorworks.

LSU Black Pioneers Honored

LSU is honoring Black pioneers Lutrill and Pearl Payne, Pinkie Gordon Lane, and Julian T. White, whose impact on the University merits lasting recognition, by naming two programs and one building in their honor.

The Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education in the College of Human Sciences & Education honors Lutrill Payne and his wife, Pearl Payne, the first Black woman to earn a degree from LSU. She received a master’s degree in education in 1956.

The Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School honors Lane, the first African American to earn a doctorate from LSU, in 1967. An accomplished educator and Pulitzer Prizenominated poet and author, she was the first woman to chair Southern University’s English Department and was Louisiana’s first Black Poet Laureate.

Julian T. White Hall, formerly the Design Building, honors Julian T. White, the second Black licensed architect in the state of Louisiana and LSU’s first Black professor of architecture.

Math Equity

To help address the challenge of math inequity, the East Baton Rouge Parish School System was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help Black and Latino students and all students experiencing poverty to graduate from high school skilled in the math required to be successful in higher education, the workforce, and life.

The LSU Social Research & Evaluation Center will serve as the research partner, with a sub-award of $473,000 for three years. DreamBox Learning will serve as the technology solutions partner. Together, the partners will work to construct a research plan to focus on students primarily in kindergarten through eighth grade.

LSU Retirees

WAFB meteorologist Steve Caparotta, guest speaker at the LSU Faculty Sta Retirees Club October meeting, spoke about gaps in Doppler radar coverage, which leaves Baton Rouge in the “purple haze” for alerting residents about oncoming tornadoes.

Refreshments were provided by club members Barbara Aldrich, Barbara Brown, Deborah Cross, Jerry Exner, and Rebecca Johnson.

The club is open to all LSU retirees and their spouses. Members meet monthly for talks, tours, and social activities. Contact lsu.faculty.sta .ret.club@gmail.com.