Reading in Red
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A group of 86 student-athletes from all sports went back to elementary school last week. Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns® promoted literacy by reading Jady Regard’s Born to Be a Ragin’ Cajun to elementary students in Breaux Bridge, Carencro, Opelousas, Crowley, Abbeville and New Iberia. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee organized the Reading in Red bus tour.
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Acorns of Hope
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| Last week, Student Government Association and Acorns of Hope representatives planted a live oak tree next to Girard Hall to help raise awareness of coastal erosion. About 30 members of Acorns of Hope traveled to campus on bicycles from Vermilionville in Lafayette. The group rides bicycles every Fall through the Chenier Plain –– a strip of land from Lake Charles to Houma made up of marshes and tree-lined ridges along Louisiana’s coast. Along the way, they plant thousands of live oak trees. Local arborist Bob Thibodeaux and his granddaughter and UL Lafayette student Alexandra Futch started Acorns of Hope following the hurricanes of 2005. |
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| Best in Nation |
| Students and faculty in the College of Engineering are helping mid-size companies become more efficient. They are part of the university’s Industrial Assessment Center. And in 2008, it was named the best university-based IAC in the nation by the U.S. Department of Energy. It helps companies by conducting free, on-site assessments to evaluate energy use, waste disposal and productivity. From 2000 to 2008, the Center identified an average savings of $173 million per year for its clients. |
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| When reporters for the Wall Street Journal starting looking for people to interview for a holiday job story, they turned to a UL Lafayette graduate. Michelle Cantor, a 1987 graduate from UL Lafayette, started working at Maison Blanche (now Macy’s) in the Mall of Acadiana while still in high school. Today, she works at Macy’s Inc. headquarters in Cincinnati overseeing the retailer’s online recruiting site. Cantor was interviewed for a story about turning holiday jobs into full-time careers for the Journal’s Career Strategies section. |
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| Redesigning Delcambre |
| In 2005, Hurricane Rita brought a surge of water into the town of Delcambre and destroyed its only grocery store and drove others out of town. Four years later, marketing students at UL Lafayette are developing marketing plans for the revitalization of the tiny town. Students are conducting field interviews and collecting marketing data that will impact two critical projects: a dockside seafood market and retail development both along the Delcambre Canal. |
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