University of Louisiana at Lafayette

More than 400 members of the University community inked words of encouragement and inspiration on their bodies recently as part of the Dear World College Tour.

Dear World asks participants to turn their bodies into billboards to reveal funny, poignant or powerful reflections of their personalities and life stories.

The Cajundome incorporated pieces of Ragin’ Cajuns athletics history into its recent $22-million renovation.

Archival images and banners spotlighting standouts from the University’s basketball program give visitors something to peruse before they view the building’s newly redesigned court that brings the campus’ iconic Cypress Lake into the Cajundome.

Public history students are harvesting the region’s past and placing their crop at the public’s fingertips.

The “History Harvest” program encourages residents to share artifacts that illustrate what life was like here over the past two centuries and earlier. Students digitize the objects and add the images to an online repository.