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4 unusual facts about Louisiana State University


1983 Summer Special Olympics

The sixth Special Olympics Summer World Games were held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the campus of Louisiana State University from July 12–18, 1983.

Categories—On the Beauty of Physics

In September 2009, Louisiana State University included it on the list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950.

German Studies Association

Stephen Brockmann Carnegie Mellon University, is GSA president in 2011-2012, and he will be succeeded by Suzanne Marchand Louisiana State University, in 2013.

Yankee Autumn In Acadiana

David C. Edmonds is a former Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, a former Fulbright-Hayes professor and specialist in international and development economics, holds a Ph.D. degree from the American University of Washington, D.C. and has attended The University of Southern Mississippi, University of Notre Dame and Louisiana State University.


Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter

The project is an international collaboration of researchers from Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, College Park, Marshall Space Flight Center, Purple Mountain Observatory in China, Moscow State University in Russia and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.

AdvoCare V100 Bowl

Independence Stadium was considered as a possible playing site for the New Orleans Saints during the 2005 National Football League season due to Hurricane Katrina, but Shreveport eventually lost out to the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and Louisiana State University's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.

Alphonse Hasselmans

His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878–1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music at Louisiana State University.

Angela Taylor

After leaving Louisiana State University she worked as a coach at various Universities such as: University of Minnesota, Princeton University, and George Mason University.

Arthur C. Morgan

His work is in private collections and public buildings such as Louisiana State University, Centenary College, the US Federal Court House at Alexandria, Louisiana and the US Capitol in Washington D.C. Through the span of his career Morgan had long-lasting friendships with Jules Bache, Bernard M. Baruch, Lincoln Borglum, Frances Elliott Clark and Jean Despujols.

Arthur J. O'Keefe

He is the grandfather of the former president of the Louisiana State Senate Michael H. O'Keefe and the great-grandfather of former LSU Chancellor and former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.

Blair Barbier

Blair Matthew Barbier (born February 13, 1978 in Marrero, Louisiana) is a former professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs organization, former baseball standout for Louisiana State University and former volunteer assistant baseball coach with LSU for the 2007 season.

Cactus Framework

Cactus was originally developed at the AEI, and is now developed jointly at AEI, Cardiff University, and the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU.

Carl Maddox

Carl Maddox was the athletics director of Louisiana State University (1968-1978) and Mississippi State University (1979-83).

Cleveland Dear

After early education in country schools, Dear graduated from Louisiana State University and its Paul M. Hebert Law Center, both in Baton Rouge.

Doug Mallory

He has previously held defensive coordinator positions at Western Kentucky University, Louisiana State University and the University of New Mexico.

Ed Homan

In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University in 1964, and four years later received his Doctorate in Medicine.

Edward Grady Partin

Honorary pallbearers included former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Woodrow Wilson Dumas and Billy Cannon, a Baton Rouge dentist and a former star football player at Louisiana State University.

Eros, Louisiana

Former Louisiana State University president James Monroe Smith taught at Eros High School in the 1911-1912 academic year.

Farnese Atlas

In 2005, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, Dr. Bradley E. Schaefer, a professor of physics at Louisiana State University, presented a widely reported analysis concluding that the text of Hipparchus' long lost star catalog may have been the inspiration for the representation of the constellations on the globe, thereby reviving and expanding an earlier proposal by Georg Thiele (1898).

Francis Butler Simkins

In addition to the Dunning Prize, Simkins held research fellowships at the Social Science Research Council and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, delivered the Fleming Lectures at LSU and the Centennial Lectures at the University of Mississippi.

Frederick A. de Armas

De Armas holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1969), and has taught at Louisiana State University (1969–1988), Pennsylvania State University (where he was Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature) (1988–2000) and has been a visiting professor at Duke University (1994).

George Mason Graham

George Mason Graham (21 August 1807 – 31 January 1891), often called the “Father of LSU,” was the first Chairman of the board of trustees of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning, the forerunner of Louisiana State University.

International Public Debate Association

Other schools that host tournaments include the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Stephen F. Austin State University, Bowling Green State University of Ohio, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Union University, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, the University of Central Arkansas, Louisiana State University at Shreveport, Har-Ber High School, East Texas Baptist University, Sam Houston State University, and Mississippi College.

James D. Hardy, Jr.

is the former Associate Dean of the Louisiana State University Honors College and a Professor of History at LSU since 1965.

Joseph Bruno Slowinski

He performed postdoctoral work at the National Museum of Natural History and Louisiana State University, eventually taking a position as a professor of biology at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Kazi M Badruddoza

He completed his B.Sc.Ag (Hons) from the University of Dhaka in 1952 and later received his Ph.D from Louisiana State University.

Kimberlyn Duncan

She took her skills to Louisiana State University, where she became the first woman to win the NCAA Championships 200 metres back to back, both indoors and outdoors.

L. D. Meyer

He kicked the winning field goal in the famous 3-2 TCU victory over LSU in the 1936 Sugar Bowl.

Louisiana Hayride

The creators of the show took the name from the 1941 book with that title by Harnett Thomas Kane, an examination of the "Louisiana Hayride" scandals of 1939-1940 that sent to prison such notables as Louisiana State University President James Monroe Smith and former Louisiana building superintendent George A. Caldwell.

Louisiana pancake batfish

Hsuan-Ching Ho, of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, discovered the Louisiana pancake batfish when he was visiting his colleague Prosanta Chakrabarty at the Louisiana State University.

Naismith College Player of the Year

Also, Clarissa Davis of the University of Texas, Dawn Staley of the University of Virginia, Chamique Holdsclaw of the University of Tennessee, Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore of the University of Connecticut, and Seimone Augustus of Louisiana State University won the award twice apiece.

Paul Mauffray

He has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana State University, Justus Liebig University (Giessen), Masaryk University (Brno), and was an Associate Instructor / Assistant Conductor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.

Regional Football League

Former college standouts such as Josh Booty (LSU), Stewart Patridge (Ole Miss), Andre Ware (Houston), Sherman Williams (Alabama Crimson Tide) and Dameyune Craig (Auburn) were signed to RFL teams in the hopes that fans would turn out to see former local stars.

Terry Tiffee

After his time at Pratt, Tiffee signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Louisiana State University, but chose instead to sign with the Minnesota Twins (scout Gregg Miller) when he was acquired in the 26th round of the June 1999 free agent draft.

Thomas M. Amoss

A graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in marketing and a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, Tom Amoss had worked with horses while in high school and after completing his education went to work for trainers Frank Brothers, Larry Robideaux, and John Parisella.

Tiger Athletic Foundation

The Tiger Athletic Foundation or TAF is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Louisiana State University (LSU) and its athletics program.

Zapp's

Zapp's "Tiger Tators" were the first food product licensed by Louisiana State University, and it also sold "Who Dat?” chips in honor of the New Orleans Saints.


see also

Ben Wilkerson

He received an athletic scholarship to attend Louisiana State University, where he played for coach Nick Saban's LSU Tigers football team from 2001 to 2004.

David French

David French Boyd (1834–1899), American academician and Civil War veteran; first president of Louisiana State University

Drayton McLane, Jr.

He sponsors the McLane Lectures at UMHB, bringing to campus such notables as former President George H.W. Bush, Honorable Sean O'Keefe (Former NASA Administrator and Current Chancellor of Louisiana State University), and Barbara Bush, former first lady of the US.

Jeff MacDonald

Geoff Macdonald, former head women’s tennis coach at Louisiana State University

John Mayhew

John W. Mayhew, former head football coach at Louisiana State University

Louis Loucheur

Stephen Carls, Louis Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France 1916-1931, Louisiana State University Press (1993-06).

Murray Dry

Murray Dry has taught many leading scholars of American government, political philosophy, and law, among them Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt University Law School), Dan Kahan (Yale Law School), James Stoner (Louisiana State University), Peter Minowitz (Santa Clara University), Paul O. Carrese (United States Air Force Academy), Ayse Zarakol (Washington and Lee University), James Morone (Brown University), and Barry Sullivan (Loyola University).