The summer issue highlights the six new members of the LSU Alumni Association Hall of Distinction, an impressive group including Alumnus of the Year Newton Thomas, founder and CEO of the Newtron Group, and Young Alumna of the Year Lori S. "Lolo” Jones, track Olympian.
Student writer Rebecca Docter takes a look at the ways in which the LSU chapter of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi fulfills its mission of scholarship and service – bringing home three Chapter of Excellence awards in recent years. Learn how LSU’s Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) upped the ante this year by instituting the TEDxLSU Creative Team – forty-eight students tasked with high-stakes deliverables in planning and implementing the event’s creative aspects.
Meet Tiger Rag president and radio personality Jim Engster and Project Fit America Teacher of Bonnie Baker Richardson. And, of course, catch up and with Tigers everywhere in “Tiger Nation.”
