Volume 122 · No. 21
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
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FACULTY
Retired professor to receive national award BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_
ILLUSTRATING IDENTITY
Student artist explores black heritage, gender fluidity through watercolor STORY BY CYNTHEA CORFAH | @LacedInCyn A woman with brown skin and flowers embedded in her thick natural hair stands tall, bearing her breasts and natural curves. With a string of flowers draped across her chest and a printed shawl draped around her arms, she serves as the subject of one of many watercolor pieces painted by theatre senior Rio Jsanea.
PHOTOS BY JORDAN MARCELL Jsanea is no ordinary painter. Involved in orchestra, poetry, dance, production design, film and comics, painting is just one of Jsanea’s many artistic outlets. After being inspired by a YouTube artist, she began using watercolors when she was 22. As a biracial woman, Jsanea didn’t grow up understanding her black heritage. Though her parents were high school
see JSANEA, page 2
On April 4, University Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success Saundra McGuire, a retired assistant vice chancellor and chemistry professor, will be honored with the 2017 American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. The ceremony will take place in San Francisco, California, as a part of the 253rd ACS National Meeting. The American Chemical Society is a naMCGUIRE tional organization that promotes inquiry into the field of chemistry. “My activities started long before my work with the Center for Academic Success, even before I came to LSU,” McGuire said. “A big part of it was helping students understand that they could be successful in chemistry.” McGuire’s career began over 45 years ago when she studied chemistry at Southern University and A&M College. But her experience influencing students began during her graduate studies at Cornell University where McGuire acted as a graduate teaching assistant during her first year for the introductory level chemistry course. When she was a TA, there were
see MCGUIRE, page 2
STUDENT LIFE
LSU Global relocates to Union, eases international student transition BY ALLISON BRUHL @albruhl__ LSU Global, a program created in Fall 2015 to help international students transition to the University, officially relocated from Hatcher Hall to the LSU Student Union on Monday, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony. At the event, LSU President F. King Alexander spoke on the importance of international students to the campus as a whole. “We’re going to expand and grow. We really want to globalize our community,” Alexander said. “We’re doing our students an injustice if we don’t give them an inter-
national experience with students from around the world because they’re going to be working with them, living in places they never thought they were going to live. The world is going to become an even smaller space as the next generation gets older and moves on.” Less than 2 percent of undergraduates on campus are international students. LSU Global hopes to increase international enrollment to 800 students in the next few years. As of now enrollment is only at 400. LSU Global partners with Shorelight Education, a U.S.based education company focused on partnering with nonprofit
universities, to increase international students’ academic success and ease their transition into the University and Louisiana lifestyle. Several advisory committees of faculty and staff contributed to the formation of LSU Global, including the English Instruction Workgroup, LSU Global Steering Committee and Academic Quality and Assurance Committee. LSU Global managing director Leisha DeRiso said relocating to the Union creates a more convenient and approachable ambience for international students to come in and ask questions or seek help.
see GLOBAL, page 2
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LSU Global partners and University faculty hold a meeting during the reopening of LSU Global in the LSU Student Union on Monday.