Cajuns Wow Washington, D.C.
TEAM BeauSoleil continues to make UL Lafayette and Louisiana proud.
If you have somehow missed all the national and local publicity, TEAM BeauSoleil is the group of incredibly bright, talented and industrious architecture, engineering and business students and faculty advisers. It has designed and built a solar home that’s competing in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
The Louisiana BeauSoleil Home won the category for affordability on Monday. The homes are judged in 10 categories. At the end of Friday, TEAM BeauSoleil was fourth out of a field of 20. To put that accomplishment into perspective, here are its competitors:
• Cornell University
• Illinois
• Iowa State
• Mount Royal College in Canada
• Ohio State
• Penn State
• Rice University
• Santa Clara University
• Simon Fraser University Onatrio
• Technische Universitat Darmstadt
• Tufts University
• Universidad de Puerto Rico
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• University of Kentucky
• University of Minnesota
• University of Missouri
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Virginia Tech
The winner will be announced Friday, but as UL Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie noted when he spoke to some TEAM BeauSoleil members before they left for the capital, they are already winners. You can keep track of the competition throughout the week.
Bonne chance, TEAM BeauSoleil!
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Stepping Out
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UL Lafayette's Pride of Acadiana Band will get a chance to watch the heavenly Saints play at the Superdome Sunday.
It has been invited – for the second year in a row – to perform before the game and at halftime when the Saints face the also undefeated New York Giants, who are 5-0.
This is the first time since 1993 that the Saints have had a 4–0 record.
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| Books, Books, Books |
Bookworms who go to the seventh annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge on Saturday will get a taste of UL Lafayette.
About 15,000 people are expected to attend the event on the Louisiana State Capitol grounds. They’ll find that University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press will have the most titles – seven – of any publisher selected for the festival.
The press will launch "The Louisiana Thing That Drives Me: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines" that day. Proceeds from the sale of the book will help fund the new Ernest J. Gaines Center in Dupre´ Library.
Among the authors who will speak at sessions or serve as moderators are five UL Lafayette faculty members and four professors emeritus.
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Cover Girl
One of the 2009 Nobel Prize winners has a tie to UL Lafayette.
German-Romanian author Herta Muller received the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Two of her books have covers that feature the artwork of Dr. Lynda Frese, professor of visual arts in the College of the Arts. "Land of the Green Plums" is being reprinted with the original artwork (Foghorn, 1984, toned gelatin-silver print) by Northwestern University Press. The other novel with Frese’s cover artwork, a wraparound jacket, is “ Traveling On One Leg.” |
Person to Person
Do you like reading about other people? Check out Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns Athletic Network.
You don’t have to be a sports junkie to enjoy it. Sure, its mission is to identify, locate and communicate with former athletes and their support groups. But the Athletic Network's web site is about men and women with ties to UL Lafayette.
You might be surprised at how many names you'll recognize but you didn’t know those people were former UL Lafayette athletes or members of sports-related groups.
An added bonus: the Athletics Network web site offers up the latest news about all UL Lafayette sports. |
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| In Memoriam |
The university mourns the loss of history instructor Bradley Pollock, who died Oct. 1.
He had spent the past 25 years teaching at UL Lafayette. His many former and current students, colleagues and friends will miss him. |
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