Lady Techsters For the 10th consecutive season and 20th overall, Louisiana Tech will team up with the Radio Center of Ruston to air every Louisiana Tech basketball game this season. All of the Lady Techsters Western Athletic Confer- ence games plus the WAC Tournament games will be 36 carried live on KXKZ-FM 107.5 while the non-conference games will be divided up among KXKZ, ESPN 97.7 and KPCH 99.3/FOX 92.7 due to conflicts (a list of the radio schedules is below). Louisiana Tech Associate Athletic Director for media relations Malcolm Butler enters his 10th season providing live play-by-play action of Lady Techster basketball over the radio. A 30-minute pre-game show will accompany Louisiana Tech Lady Techster broadcasts throughout the year. Lady Techster basketball can also be heard worldwide by logging onto www.z1075fm.com or www. espn997.com or www.thepeach993.com depending on which station the game is aired on. Lady Techster Radio Schedule Date Opponent Time Station 11/14 WBB vs. Central Arkansas 7 pm KPCH 11/18 WBB @ Memphis 7 pm ESPN 11/23 WBB @ Tennessee 2 pm ESPN 11/26 WBB vs. Nicholls State 2 pm KPCH, FOX Primary Media 11/30 WBB vs. Western Kentucky 2 pm ESPN 12/3 WBB @ Mississippi State 7 pm ESPN The Ruston Daily Leader KTVE-TV/KARD-TV (NBC) O.K. “Buddy” Davis Robert Neagli 12/6 WBB vs. Arizona (DH) 6 pm ESPN 208 West Park Ave. 200 Pavilion Road 12/9 WBB vs. Grambling State 7 pm KPCH, FOX Ruston, LA 71270 West Monroe, LA 71292 12/13 WBB Sam Houston State 7 pm KPCH, FOX Phone: (318) 255-4353 Phone: (318) 323-1972 12/15 WBB @ LSU 7 pm ESPN Fax: (318) 255-4006 Fax: (318) 807-0588 12/22 WBB vs. ULAR 5 pm ESPN 12/28 WBB vs. UMBC 6 pm KPCH, FOX The News-Star KTAL-TV (NBC) Ethan Conley Brandon Dunn 12/28 WBB @ Virginia Tourney TBA ESPN 411 North 4th St. 3150 North Market St. 12/29 WBB @ Virginia/Rider TBA ESPN Monroe, LA 71210 Shreveport, LA 71107 1/3 WBB @ McNeese State 5 pm Z1075 Phone: 1-800-259-7788 Phone: (318) 629-6000 1/8 WBB @ Nevada 9 pm Z1075 (318) 362-0267 Fax: (318) 425-2488 1/10 WBB @ Utah State 9 pm Z1075 Fax: (318) 362-0279 KSLA-TV (CBS) 1/16 WBB vs. Fresno State 7 pm Z1075 The Shreveport Times Mike Dirmann 1/18 WBB vs. San Jose State 2 pm Z1075 Jimmy Watson 1812 Fairfield 1/23 WBB @ Idaho 9 pm Z1075 P. O. Box 30222 Shreveport, LA 71101 1/25 WBB @ Boise State 3 pm Z1075 Shreveport, LA 71130-0222 Phone: (318) 222-1212 1/30 WBB vs. New Mexico State 7 pm Z1075 Phone: 1-800-462-6436 Fax: (318) 677-6705 2/6 WBB vs. Idaho 7 pm Z1075 Fax: (318) 459-3301 KTBS-TV (ABC) 2/8 WBB vs. Boise State 2 pm Z1075 The Tech Talk Tim Fletcher 2/13 WBB vs. Hawaii 7 pm Z1075 Sports Editor 312 E. Kings Hwy. 2/15 WBB vs. Nevada 2 pm Z1075 P. O. Box 10258 Shreveport, LA 71104 2/20 WBB @ San Jose State 9 pm Z1075 Ruston, LA 71272 Phone: (318) 861-5880 2/22 WBB @ Hawaii 10 pm Z1075 Phone: (318) 257-4946 Fax: (318) 862-9431 Fax: (318) 257-4558 2/28 WBB vs. Utah State (DH) 6 pm ESPN KXKZ-FM 3/2 WBB @ Fresno State 9 pm Z1075 KNOE-TV (CBS) Sean Fox 3/7 WBB @ New Mexico State 8 pm Z1075 Aaron Dietrich P. O. Box 430 3/10 WBB @ WAC Tourney- Reno, NV TBA Z1075 P. O. Box 4067 Ruston, LA 71273 Monroe, LA 71211 Phone: (318) 255-5000 ESPN = 97.7 FM (www.espn977.com) Phone: (318) 388-8888 Fax: (318) 255-5084 Fax: (318) 325-3405 Z1075 = 107.5 FM (www.z1075fm.com) KPCH = 99.3 FM (www.thepeach993.com) FOX FM = 92.7 FM (www.fox927.com) Administration Dr. Dan Reneau, University President President Dan Reneau and Louisiana Tech Univer- grant from the National Science Foundation. sity share an association that spans 50 flourishing years. • a professor of mathematics and statistics, Dr. Kenny The life -- and successes -- of the man and the institution Crump, being chosen to work with the Environmental are inevitably intertwined. Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Reneau enrolled at Tech as a freshman in 1959 (or Assessment. 37 1958?), earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineer- • director of the Trenchless Technology Center, Dr. Ray ing in 1963, received a master’s in 1964 and returned as a Sterling, giving opening remarks at a U.N. workshop on faculty member in 1967 after receiving his doctorate from planning for effective use of urban underground space. Clemson University. • students and faculty presenting 11 papers at the American In less than 10 years, Reneau had established Tech’s Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and biomedical engineering department, which -- under his Exposition, an unusually high number of papers from one guidance -- gained immediate national attention. It was institution. only the fifth university to have a bachelor of science pro- • 14 engineering students participating in the National gram in biomedical engineering accredited nationally, and Concrete Canoe Competition after winning the Deep South its Ph.D. program received a commendation of excellence regional contest. from the Board of Regents. • chemistry professor Dr. Collin Wick landing cover Before another decade had passed, other admin- articles on both the Journal of Physical Chemistry C and istrative achievements followed: In 1980 Reneau was Chemical Physics Letters, concerning his innovative appointed Tech’s vice president for academic affairs. He research on methods to remove nuclear waste from water became president in 1987. at the molecular level. Today, the university continues on a successful • engineering majors Ben Toler and Emile Frey winning course after 21 years with Dr. Daniel D. Reneau at the first place in a video contest sponsored by the Institute for helm. In fact, 2007-2008 saw an unprecedented amount of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. • The new trenchless technology research facility on the national recognition. Examples: South Campus was dedicated. Regional and state recognition also abounded: • Self-generated student funds are allowing construction • a $732,656 grant from the National Science Foundation • The Early Childhood Education Center was chosen as of new housing with 500 beds, new recreation centers and to recruit science, technology, engineering and math- one of the first 26 childcare centers to be awarded its first new athletic facilities. ematics graduates as public school teachers. STEM-Plus star in the state’s new Quality Rating System. • $500,000 worth of renovations are being done on the partners the College of Engineering and Science and the • At the Louisiana State Nurses Foundation Nightingale Thomas Assembly Center, plus Aillet Stadium received College of Education. Gala, nursing professors were honored: Nancy Darland, artificial field turf and new lights. • the College of the Business becoming home for the Acad- Nursing Educator of the Year; Ramona Guin, Outstanding emy of Marketing Science. Nurse Researcher; and Beth Fife, Outstanding Community In athletic news: • a professor of education being ranked among the Top 10 Achievement by a Registered Nurse. • In the NCAA 2007 Federal Graduation Rate Report, people who had a profound impact on educational technol- • A professor of health and leisure science received a based on student-athletes who entered school in fall of ogy in the last decade. eSchool News chose Dr. Lejeane $250,000 grant to inform African-American communities 2000 and who graduated by summer of 2006, Tech ranked Thomas as one of “Ten Who’ve Made a Difference.” in North Louisiana about the dangers of smoking and other No. 1 in the state among schools that play football. • a forestry major, Justin Jacobs, winning the regional risk factors linked with cardiovascular disease. Dr. Larry • Tech XX, a young English bulldog, was installed as the Stihl Timbersports Southern Collegiate Challenge, which Proctor will manage “Communities of Color,” adminis- university’s new mascot. catapulted him to the national contest and a possible berth tered by the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living • Tech received honorable mention from the American in the professional Stihl Timbersports series. and funded by the Louisiana Public Health Institute. Football Coaches Association as one of only 32 Division • a new cyberspace technology center being created in I-A schools to graduate at least 70 percent of its football combination with Louisiana State University. The Center In other news on the academic front, Tech: players, based on a study involving the freshman class for Secure Cyberspace will assist faculty members in their • received approval to offer an engineering physics track in from the academic year of 2001-02. Tech is the only research and support the U.S. Air Force if it places its its interdisciplinary doctoral program in engineering. institution in Louisiana and the only member of the WAC planned cyber center in Louisiana. • became the first state university to offer a graduate to receive this honor. • an art student and a faculty member -- Andy Bloxham certificate in domestic violence, a joint project of human and Frank Hamrick -- receiving international exposure ecology and the department of psychology and behavioral Among alumni happenings: when CNN used their shots of the Olympic torch being sciences. • Argent Financial Group donated $150,000 to cover the snuffed out in Paris. • initiated a concentration in the engineering and technol- building cost of the new Argent Alumni Pavilion. • Tech’s Lambda-Rho Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta again ogy management master’s program, management of • The president and co-founder of the Tech-headquartered being named best chapter in the national history honor technology.