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5 unusual facts about Louisiana Tech University


Alpha Eta Mu Beta

Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB) is a biomedical engineering honor society founded by Dr. Daniel Reneau of Louisiana Tech University, United States, in 1979.

Jesse Mercer

A dissertation on Mercer's life and frontier experience was completed in 1950 at the University of Texas by Robert W. Mondy, the late professor of history at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.

Jesse N. Stone

Stone's tenure over the Southern University system coincided with that of F. Jay Taylor of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, also a native of Gibsland.

Robert Russ

He was a trustee of Ruston College, which in 1894 became the future Louisiana Tech University.

Samuel W. Martien

Grandson Norman Hopkins Martien, Jr. (1926-2012), a Waterproof native, was a graduate in chemical engineering of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and an engineering project manager for Kaiser Aluminum in Gramercy, Louisiana.


1969 Pittsburgh Steelers season

Art Rooney would win a coin toss with George Halas to determine who would select Louisiana Tech quarterback Terry Bradshaw (the consensus number 1 selection among league teams) with the number one pick in the 1970 draft.

Frasca International

Frasca manufactured training devices are used in all segments of the aviation industry, but are perhaps best known for their extensive use in many prominent college aviation programs, including Purdue University, Indiana State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of North Dakota, Louisiana Tech University, University of Illinois, and Western Michigan University.

Irvington, Virginia

One of its graduates, Claybrook Cottingham, was later its assistant principal and subsequently in his long academic career the president of both Louisiana College in Pineville and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

James P. Pope

Born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Pope graduated from Louisiana Industrial Institute (now Louisiana Tech University) in 1906 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909.

Louisiana Tech University Arboretum

The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum (50 acres, 20 hectares) is located on the South Campus of the Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.

Rob Shadoin

Shadoin defeated fellow Republican, Jason Paul Bullock (born 1977), also of Ruston, in the general election held on November 19, 2011, to choose a successor to Republican Hollis Downs, a professor at Louisiana Tech University.

Shreveport Journal

A Webster Parish native reared in Shreveport, Tiner graduated with a journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University.


see also

Jay Taylor

F. Jay Taylor (1923–2011), American historian and president of Louisiana Tech University

Robert Snyder

Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University