Dr. Magdy Bayoumi is the department head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise includes sensing technologies and sensor nodes, data processing, and the management of energy applications to military and security fields. Earlier this year, Bayoumi was honored as an...
Dr. Catherine Roche-Wallace is an associate professor of horn and theory, and has served as the coordinator of graduate studies in the School of Music and Performing Arts since 2017. She has performed with orchestras in Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and...
Dr. Hung-Chu Lin is the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Professor in Liberal Arts. Her research focus includes the development of emotions, parenting, attachment relationships, and developmental disabilities. She runs the Developmental Science Laboratory (DSL), which takes an interdisciplinary approach to...
Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. candidate Megan Quebedeaux has received the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes QuebedeauxÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s exceptional contributions as the official instructor of record for teaching in the Department of Communicative Disorders in the...
Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. candidate Ronald Kittle has received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Kittle has built an impressive record of supporting faculty and undergraduate students in the classroom in his role as a graduate teaching assistant. Dr. Kristina...
Corey Saft is a professor in the School of Architecture and Design and a licensed architect and a LEED-AP. Saft was the developer of the first certified PassiveHouse in the hot/humid zone of the American South and the first Louisiana LEED-platinum home outside of New Orleans. The Graduate School has...
Dr. Michael Kightley is an associate professor and co-director of graduate studies in English. Their research focuses on medieval English literature and medievalism ÐÓ°ÉרÇø” the study of modern re-imaginings of the medieval period. The Graduate School has selected Kightley as a recipient of the 2022...
Dr. David Khey is an associate professor and department head for the Department of Criminal Justice. He is also the associate director for the Center for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. Dr. Khey's work focuses on drug policy, effective policing strategies, campus crime and safety, drug...
Dr. William Chirdon is an associate professor of chemical engineering whose areas of research encompass polymers, plastics, heat transfer, and sustainable materials. He also serves as the graduate coordinator for the chemical engineering masterÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s degree program. The Graduate School has selected...
The Graduate School has awarded the 2022 Outstanding Thesis Award to LetÃcia Silva Pires. The Outstanding Thesis Award is an award established by the Graduate School to recognize exceptional work by masterÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s students and to encourage the highest levels of scholarship, research, and writing. Winners...
