University of Louisiana at Lafayette

In an interview with La Louisiane, the University’s magazine, CBS national correspondent David Begnaud, ’05, spoke publicly for the first time about the challenge he overcame to become a broadcast journalist.

He earned a prestigious Polk Award for his riveting coverage in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria.

Our student nurses learn the power of the personal touch through a course that deploys them into the region’s communities.

They assess the health of a city or town, then develop preventive education courses and outreach activities to combat what’s ailing residents.

Alum James Bollich left the U.S. military more than seven decades ago.

But, his experiences as a survivor of the harrowing Bataan Death March during World War II have remained with him ever since.