2009-10 Louisiana Basketball www.RaginCajuns.com MARTIN HALL Alumni Center LAGNIAPPE LOUISIANA’S RECENT NOTEWORTHY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Louisiana’s Mathematics Department is one of the Top 100 university math departments in the nation, according to the National Science Foundation. The University’s Computer Science Department is among the top 60 university computer science departments. • The Ragin’ Cajuns softball team made its fifth trip to the Women’s College World Series in May 2008. In the WCWS opening game, UL defeated the No. 1 team in the nation, the Florida Gators. The National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute, which is using Cypress Swamp • supercomputers and visualization technologies to try to improve disaster management by public and private sectors, was established in October 2007. NIMSAT’s Business Emergency Operations Center will be housed in Abdalla Hall. • Louisiana-Lafayette is the only university in Louisiana that has a simulated neonatal, pediatric and labor delivery unit. Its Maternal/Child Life Skills laboratory recently opened in Wharton Hall. There, senior nursing students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions use sophisticated computerized simulators that can mimic real-world hospital situations. LOUISIANA • The Ernest J. Gaines Center in Dupré Library will house the only complete collection of Gaines’ scholarship in the world. It will be built in a now-unfurnished section of the library’s third floor. Gaines, Lee Hall author of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “A Lesson Before Dying,” is writer-in-residence emeritus. He was presented with an honorary doctorate from Louisiana-Lafayette in May 2008. • The University’s College of Sciences was named the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences in May 2008 in honor of Dr. Ray Authement, Louisiana-Lafayette’s fifth president. • The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of the most affordable universities in the nation, thanks to comprehensive scholarship and financial aid programs, including out-of-state fee waivers to qualified students. • The University is one among 20 teams chosen worldwide to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon next year. The teams will each design, build and operate a small energy- efficient house that’s powered entirely by the sun. UL’s Beausoleil Team represents collaboration among the School of Architecture and Design, College of Engineering and the College of Business. • In March, the university activated First Call, an interactive communications network that uses voice, e-mail and text to alert registered users to emergencies on campus. university of university 78 www.RaginCajuns.com 2009-10 Louisiana Basketball www.RaginCajuns.com STEPHENS HALL SPIRE CAMPUS • U.S. Department of Agriculture Francophone studies, mathematics, computer • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services science and computer engineering. A joint • Louisiana-Lafayette owns a total of about 1,400 acres. Its main campus consists of 137 acres; • U.S. Geological Survey doctor of education degree is offered in the athletic complex and Cajundome sit on 243 • U.S. Geological Survey National Wetlands educational leadership by Louisiana-Lafayette acres; University Research Park has 148 acres; Research Center and Southeastern Louisiana University. the Center for Ecology and Environmental • About 1,200 students are graduated each fall Technology has 51 acres; and the Equine of university ACADEMICS and spring. Center is comprised of 100 acres. • 100 percent of all undergraduate programs at UL that are eligible for accreditation by • UL has a 600-acre farm/renewable resources professional agencies are accredited. IMPACT LOUISIANA laboratory with a 30-acre pond for crawfish • Louisiana-Lafayette employs about 1,575 local and catfish culture in Cade, La. • UL is a member of the Southeastern citizens and through spending, sustains more Universities Research Association, which is than 12,800 jobs in the Lafayette area. • It also owns the 100-acre New Iberia Research composed of members from more than a Center in New Iberia, La., which is one of the dozen southeastern states and the District • If it were a private business, the university largest private non-human, primate breeding of Columbia. Other members include Duke, would rank 5th in the Top 100 private colonies in the world. Vanderbilt and Auburn universities. businesses in Acadiana. • UL maintains more than 261 campus buildings • The Carnegie Foundation has designated • Louisiana-Lafayette’s total economic impact is that have a total of about 4.2 million square Louisiana-Lafayette as a “Research University $650 million to $700 million in Acadiana each feet. with High Research Activity.” That puts UL in year. the same category as Clemson, Auburn and • The Cajundome is a 12,800-seat multipurpose Baylor universities. The only other Louisiana • The University of Louisiana at Lafayette pays arena. There is an adjacent $13 million institution in the same category is the more than $65 million in salaries and wages convention center University of New Orleans. each year. LOUISIANA • Edith Garland Dupré Library is one of the • The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is • Students are responsible for $129 million in most technologically advanced university accredited by the Commission on Colleges direct spending annually. libraries in Louisiana. of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. • The university injects about $149 million of • University Research Park tenants include: direct, unrestricted spending into the Lafayette • Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise • Louisiana-Lafayette offers 80 undergraduate economy per year. (LITE) degree programs. • Center for Business and Information Technologies • There are 29 master’s degree programs and • Lafayette Economic Development Authority one post master’s certificate program. • Lafayette Primary Care Facility • Hilton Garden Inn • Doctor of Philosophy degrees are offered • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in applied language and speech sciences, biology, cognitive science, English, 2009-10 Louisiana Basketball 79 2009-10 Louisiana Basketball The University of Louisiana, a selective admissions university, offers 80 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS undergraduate and 29 master’s degree programs in 10 colleges and schools: Dean: Dr. David Barry | Phone: 337.482.6219 | E-mail: [email protected] • College offers a broad view of the world, so it provides excellent preparation for graduate schools and careers in a wide variety of fields COLLEGE OF ARTS • Liberal Arts sharpen a student’s mind by teaching him or her to reason, to Dean: H. Gordon Brooks, II | Phone: 337.482.6224 | E-mail: [email protected] analyze information critically and to communicate • Only Louisiana university that has a center for all the arts • Two writers-in-residence, Abdelhak Serhane and Rikki Ducornet, are • The College of Arts has impressive resources, such as a stereoscopic virtual internationally renowned for their creative works reality lab that lets students display their architectural, interior design, • Public Relations program has been ranked in the top 25 in the nation industrial design and animation models in 3-D • Majors: Anthropology, Child and Family Studies, Criminal Justice, English, • Also the only Louisiana university that offers a bachelor’s degree in industrial History, Interpersonal and Public Communications, Mass Communications design (concentrations in Broadcasting, Journalism and Media Advertising), Modern • School of Music students can make professional-quality 24-track recordings Languages (concentrations in French, Francophone Studies and Spanish), in an updated studio and can also utilize a post-production studio for video Philosophy, Political Science (concentrations in Pre-Law and International editing, surround sound mixing and authoring DVDs Relations), Psychology, Public Relations, Sociology, Speech Pathology and • Majors: Architectural Studies, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Fashion Audiology Design and Merchandising, Music (concentrations in Music Business, Composition, Instrumental, Jazz Studies, Music Media, Piano Pedagogy, Performance, Strings, Theory/Composition, Vocal), Performing Arts COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH (emphasis in Theater or Dance, Visual Arts (emphasis in Art History, PROFESSIONS Ceramics, Computer Art and Animation, Drawing, Graphic Design, Media Dean: Gail Poirrier, RN DNS | Phone: 337.482.6808 | E-mail: [email protected] Art, Metalwork and Jewelry, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture) • Department of Nursing is one of the largest traditional nursing programs in the nation B.I. MOODY III COLLEGE OF BUSINESS • Consistently, the percentage of UL graduating seniors who pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses on the first try far ADMINISTRATION exceeds state and national averages Dean: Dr. Joby John | Phone: 337.482.6491 | E-mail: [email protected] • The Department of Nursing is one of 10 nursing programs in the nation • Currently enrolls more than 2,800 undergraduate students to be awarded the prestigious Centers of Excellence in Nursing Education • Students in hospitality management get hands-on experience by working designation by the National League of Nursing in an on-campus hotel or restaurant • It was the first college in Louisiana to provide incredibly lifelike computerized • Has one of only six Professional Land and Resource Management programs patient simulators in North America • It was also the first in