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Louisianans didn't experience complete darkness on April 8 during the total eclipse. But that didn't stop the excitement leading up to the last total solar eclipse to cross the US for the next 20 years. Watchers in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette witnessed up to 87% coverage. The Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge was one of many gathering points today to view the sight. Marion Mayfield, museum communications manager, joined the program to discuss preparations. Plus, Aaron Ryan, LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy research associate joined the show alongside Caroline Davis, student researcher, to discuss their eclipse observations. They were part of a team that led several experiments during the eclipse in Texas. A puppet show produced by a group of climate activists that tries to bring some joy to the impact of climate change on the Gulf Coast begins performances this month in New Orleans. Halle Parker, Coastal Desk reporter, followed the making of the show ahead of its showcase at the 10th Giant Puppet Festival in New Orleans. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out ourpitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out ourlistener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, two Baton Rouge area elementary school teachers were recognized with the Milken Educator Award, a nationwide honor sometimes described as “the Oscars of Teaching.” Today, the two teachers, Dereka Duncan and Elise Frederic, tell us more about this accomplishment.  When a hurricane strikes, it's not just the immediate wind and rain damage that causes concern. Many are also forced to grapple with flooding, and often, as in the case of Hurricane Katrina, the water rises and stays for days at a time. Now, the LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science and the Center for Computation and Technology are working to better predict flooding after hurricanes with a new computer modeling system. Associate professor George Xue tells us how this modeling will help communities prepare for disasters. With carnival season underway we are going back to the archives to hear some of our favorite Mardi Gras stories from years past. Today, in collaboration between WWNO's Thomas Walsh and StoryCorps, we bring you a 2015 conversation between two Mardi Gras Indians, Littdell “Queen B” Bannister and Mary Jones, who discuss sewing personal pride into each stitch of their costumes. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Adam Vos. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, President William F. Tate IV speaks to LSU assistant professor in experimental statistics, Thanos Gentimis. He discusses his field of expertise, which is data analytics with a special interest in machine learning and neural networks. Thanos created the first digital agriculture class at LSU and discusses how AI will soon shape the world of agriculture and farming. Thanos is married to Maria Bampasidou, Ph.D., who is also a professor in the LSU Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness.

The diagnosis of cleft lip and palate is much more common than you might realize, but the treatment is accessible, advanced and comprehensive! We can't quite say that cleft lip and palate is “no big deal,” but we can say an entire team of doctors, surgeons, dentists, speech therapists and social workers are trained and experienced at making this diagnosis as low-impact and manageable as possible. Most babies who have a cleft lip or cleft palate only have a slight, unnoticeable scar after receiving treatment. To discuss the team approach for treating cleft lip and palate, ParentingU host Stephanie is joined by Lisa Morris, MD and Laura Hetzler, MD—both otolaryngologists (Ear, Nose and Throat physicians), both with specialties in facial plastic surgery; and co-directors of Our Lady of the Lake Cleft and Craniofacial Multidisciplinary Team. You will hear the passion these doctors have for their specialties and receive an education about how a medical team can work together for their infant patients and their families. Resources for You Learn more about Our Lady of the Lake Cleft and Craniofacial Multidisciplinary Team here. Read about the Cleft and Craniofacial Services available. Learn more about the LSU Department of Otolaryngology and the research they are conducting. Questions Answered on the Show How common is a diagnosis of cleft lip and palate? When do expectant parents often learn of the cleft lip and palate diagnosis? We received a diagnosis of cleft lip for our baby. I am scared and upset. What can I do? What causes cleft lip and palate? What kinds of doctors help with cleft lip and palate treatment? Can a baby with a cleft lip have a normal life? How do babies with cleft lip and palate eat? Are there resources in South Louisiana to help with a diagnosis of cleft lip and palate? Is LSU involved in cleft lip and palate research? We hope you enjoy the new season of ParentingU! You can hear all episodes of ParentingU on our website or on your favorite podcast app including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts. New! Watch videos of our podcast on YouTube: ParentingU playlist.   I'm deleting these links to the other hospitals - this is really a Baton Rouge specific service - at the Children's Hospital. These are the three hospitals where babies are born (although St. Francis is in northern Louisiana)

We discuss with Dr. Abe Baggili: Cyber Security LSU being be designated by the National Security Agency as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations The research Dr. Baggili and his students are doing

In this episode, we sit down with Bhuvnesh Bharti, an Associate Professor at the LSU Department of Chemical Engineering. He joins us today to talk about oil spill management and recovery.  Bhuvnesh's research at LSU focuses on understanding and programming the behavior of micron and nano-sized particles in liquids, specifically in microplastics and oil spills. Finding eco-friendly alternatives to these issues is of great importance to Bhuvnesh and his research group – as uncovering solutions will contribute to a healthier future for our planet.  Offer: This episode is sponsored by The Amino Company. The Amino Company offers 100% science-backed amino acids formulas that taste great and is easy to incorporate into the daily routine. It's Keto-friendly, Soy-Free, Vegan, Gluten-Free, without any nasty NON-GMOs. In a clinical trial, muscle protein synthesis from exercise more than tripled by using Perform as compared to whey protein. Perform is formulated to minimize muscle breakdown during exercise and maximize muscle growth after exercise. To get 30% off use code GENIUS at check out when you visit Amino Co to shop. This episode covers subjects such as: The technology used to mitigate oil spills. The fate of oil when it is spilled in a body of water.  Oil spills from the past that effect our environment to this day. The future of Bhuvnesh's research afforts.  Want to learn more about Bhuvnesh's work with oil spill research? Visit www.cbe.ncsu.edu and www.lsu.edu now! Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Adam Voshosted this Thursday's episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana Progress Policy and Advocacy Director Peter Robins-Browndiscusses his organization's congressional redistricting map projections, available for comparison to the current maps at louisiana.redistrictingandyou.org. The LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Dr. John Parduediscusses how the department tests wastewater to discover the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Baton Rouge community. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's storyteller is Dr Clay Tucker! Clay is a tree ring scientist, also known as a dendrochronologist, and his specialty is related to hurricanes and climate change. I could have called this episode "Dendrochronology" but probably most people have no idea what that would mean and I didn't want to detract from this fabulous episode!! So trees grow and add rings every year, so by taking a small core of the tree you get a visual representation of that tree's life, essentially. And you can see the impact of droughts, hurricanes, and disease on the growth of that tree over time. In Clay's research, he's used tree rings from pine trees across the southeastern US to understand the impacts of hurricanes. It's fascinating research and why I asked Clay to be on the podcast! Clay and I are both in Baton Rouge, and know a lot of the same people, and so we talk about that and relationships within science, about how technology in this era allows for collaboration across continents and time zones, about what I call the "Louisiana Quicksand Conundrum", about learning to read the landscape, and of course about trees and wetlands and research. This is such a fun conversation and Clay is great and I hope everyone enjoys it! --- You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and Twitter @storytellers42. You can find Clay Tucker on Twitter @climateclay and his website https://coastalab.wixsite.com/claytucker. LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources: https://www.lsu.edu/rnr/ LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology: https://lsu.edu/ga/index.php The documentary about Richard Proenneke that Clay describes as his favorite documentary ever is called "Alone in the Wilderness". Episodes referenced in this episode: #61 - Ashley Booth Book List: Rising by Elizabeth Rush, One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke, Voyage of the Turtle by Carl Safina Recorded on 20 September 2021.

Dr Seck continues in Part II  discussing religion, spirituality and superstition, Covid-19, rites of passage and his optimism for the future. Dr Ibrahima Seck is co-founder of the Whitney Plantation Museum where he serves as Director of Research. His research is mostly devoted to the historical and cultural links between West Africa and Louisiana. He is joined on this episode by Dr Joyce Jackson Chair of the LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology.  Click here for detailed show notes, transcript, pictures and videos.

LD has a wide ranging discussion with Dr. Joyce Jackson the newly elect Chair of the LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology. Dr. Jackson describes what it was like in undergraduate and graduate school at LSU during the early seventies, the problems she faces as the first female Chair and person of color and her vision for the future. Great history lesson on growing up in the south, studying african cultures as well as history of New Orleans, Creoles, Indians and Mardi Gras (Carnivale) Indians along with LD's unique take on everything. Click here to comment and for detailed show notes, transcript, pictures and videos.

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday's episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana Community and Technical College System President Dr. Monty Sullivantells us about the M.J. Foster Promise Program, a new program funded in the most recent legislative session which provides grants for Louisiana adults seeking education at the community-college level. LSU Department of Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Jyotsna Sharmaexplains recent research into using optical fiber, the same technology used in ethernet cables and phone lines, to detect leaks in oil pipelines by sensing temperature, pressure and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Out to Lunch prepares to go back to hosting live lunches, for inspiration we're taking a look at some of our pre-Covid shows. Here's an Out to Lunch Best of: Baton Rouge Performing Arts. Imagine that you're the most beautiful person in the world. And you happen to have a sister, who is even more beautiful than you! If you didn't happen to be compared to your sister all the time, you'd be a really big deal. That's kind of how it is with the Baton Rouge performing arts. Baton Rouge is unfortunate in its proximity to its older sister, New Orleans. But there are actually a number of extraordinarily talented people in the Baton Rouge performing arts world. For example, Jamie Ray. Jamie Ray is owner of Air Seekers Acrobatic Movement, a professional acrobatic company that focuses on cirque-style and physical theater performances. Jamie is a professional movement artist and instructor whose work is informed by her background in aerial dance, theater, and partner acrobatics.  Vastine Stabler is Managing Artistic Director of Swine Palace, a non-profit, professional theater company supporting the educational mission of the LSU Department of Theater. Since its founding in 1992, Swine Palace has produced more than 68 productions, including many regional and world premiers that have advanced the company's mission to produce plays of social relevance. Vastine has been in his current role at Swine Palace since the spring of 2018, previously serving as the theater's director of marketing and communications from 2005-2010.  Out to Lunch Baton Rouge is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine that you're the most beautiful person in the world. And you happen to have a sister, who is even more beautiful than you! If you didn't happen to be compared to your sister all the time, you'd be a really big deal. That's kind of how it is with the Baton Rouge performing arts. Baton Rouge is unfortunate in its proximity to its older sister, New Orleans. But there are actually a number of extraordinarily talented people in the Baton Rouge performing arts world. For example, Jamie Ray. Jamie Ray is owner of Air Seekers Acrobatic Movement, a professional acrobatic company that focuses on cirque-style and physical theater performances. Jamie is a professional movement artist and instructor whose work is informed by her background in aerial dance, theater, and partner acrobatics.  Vastine Stabler is Managing Artistic Director of Swine Palace, a non-profit, professional theater company supporting the educational mission of the LSU Department of Theater. Since its founding in 1992, Swine Palace has produced more than 68 productions, including many regional and world premiers that have advanced the company's mission to produce plays of social relevance. Vastine has been in his current role at Swine Palace since the spring of 2018, previously serving as the theater's director of marketing and communications from 2005-2010.  Out to Lunch Baton Rouge is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux is passionate about reducing and eventually eliminating the never-ending piles of trash generated both locally and globally. In this episode of Discover Lafayette, she speaks with Jan Swift in a humorous and non-preachy style, yet it is abundantly clear that she walks the walk in her efforts to bring about a zero waste society. Catherine was a founding member of No Waste Louisiana along with Amanda Waddle and both women were instrumental in getting the Lafayette Parish School System to implement recycling in schools. Catherine realized that recycling, while helpful, is not the answer to the growing piles of waste. She is working to change mindsets and jokingly stated that beyond "reduce, reuse and recycle", there are so many ways to eliminate waste such as repair, redesign products, rethink, refill, and be responsible. While stressing practicality of living your daily life, one of the best things we can all do to reduce waste is to eliminate the use of single-use plastics such as cups and plastic bags. The point of recycling is not to recycle "more," but to recycle better by being mindful of our daily practices of consumption. All of Lafayette's recycling is sent to Baton Rouge. Paper, aluminum, and plastics are sorted by machines and ultimately humans. Catherine shared that unusual items such as weapons, bowling balls, mannequins, diapers, and dead animals are plucked out of the recycling by workers. "Contaminated recycling" is a problem; we should not include plastic bags in our recycling nor containers which have food or liquids on them. No Waste Louisiana is an environmental education organization that works with individuals, businesses, and governments to reduce needless and avoidable waste. Front-end litter prevention is the focus, and they are hopeful to begin recognizing businesses that utilize green practices such as eliminating the use of plastics and other disposables. They also promote a "fix-it" culture to encourage people to fix their possessions rather than tossing them in the trash. No Waste Lafayette is hosting a Summer Fix It Cafe on July 27, 2019, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lafayette Public Library downtown where "fixers" will be available to assess and repair bikes, household goods, electronics, clothing, jewelry, and furniture. Catherine spoke of the need for extended producer responsibility by the manufacturers of products. It takes legislation to encourage manufacturers to make their goods last longer or design them to be able to be broken down easily and recycled. The end goal is to have producers add all the environmental costs associated with a product through the product life cycle and focus on what happens to the product at the end of use. It prods manufacturers to accept their responsibility when designing products to minimize life-cycle environmental impacts and hopefully redesign to make a more durable good. An example is a Louisiana law that requires retail and wholesale sellers of lead-acid batteries to accept used batteries when a new one is purchased. Latex paint is one of the most commonly brought goods to LCG's Household Hazardous Waste Day. LCG partners with Habitat for Humanity's ReStore to reblend the paints for sale at the store. Catherine stressed that while this is a wonderful way to repurpose unused paint, we could also share our paint with friends who may be happy to use it in their own home projects. About 10% of unused paint goes unused each year in the U. S. (80 million gallons) and as a result, paint stewardship laws are in effect in about thirteen states which call upon paint manufacturers to to assist with repurposing the paint, putting it back in circulation, and minimize involvement of local governments tasked with managing post-consumer paint by reducing the amount generated. LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Professor Mark Benfield is studying microplastics (pieces of plastic no larger than a Ma...

Episode 18: Leveraging the Power of Technology - Innovation and Creativityfeaturing Jared and Kari Wall SHOW DATE: February 27, 2019SUMMARY: In this episode, we pick up where we left off last episode. Having identified multiple key issues that lead to teacher burnout, how can we rethink teaching and learning in light of technology in our classrooms.SHOW NOTES: News and Notes:Wall EdTech is proud to be a presenter at the LSU Department of Education's conference entitled Innovative Practices & Techniques: A Cross-Fertilization of the Immersion, ESL, and Second Language Classrooms. We will be offering a session to world language educators that highlights some technology tools that can be beneficial to learning and teaching new language learners.Here is the link to our Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/b0eab2bd. Feel free to share with us some of your thoughts on this podcast and/or ideas for something you want us to discuss. Technology Tools & TrendsTechnology Tools: Trends: If you are a professional educator and not on Twitter, create an account and get on now. The latest trend for Twitter in Education is the Twitter Chat. PLC’s around the nation and globe are grabbing a relevant hashtag, inviting you to follow and respond, and asking questions that allows discussion on topics relevant to you and your classroom.Tools: Nearpod and PearDeck - Need a tool for guiding students through your notes, quick formative assessments, flipping your classroom? Check out these two tools.Question: In light of the issues we discussed last podcast that lead to teacher burnout, how can we re-envision school (teaching and learning or education) in a way that alleviates such issues as data madness, student standardization, and micromanagement and that embraces the idea that teachers and students are unique learners?Embrace uniqueness. This week I am reading a book entitled The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand. In ch. 8 he discusses the “Law of Errors”. This is the history of the development of statistical formulas that were imposed upon social issues. In other words, the use of data to create what would become the “average man”. Using this data allowed for predicting human behavior. It is in the image of the bell curve that we now see students in relation to the “average”. Much to be said here about the outliers. Those who do not follow the statistical model. It is my contention that human beings are diverse and unique. No bell curve, no data, no GPA, no test score can or should be a predictor of student success or determine their worth. By embracing the uniqueness of each learner, we open the possibilities of life, the future, and the classroom. Students see past the closed curriculum and are able to experiment and learn in ways and about things that they are passionate about.Technologies possibility. By using technology to bring in voices, topics, and learning that might never have been possible in previous school eras, teachers must embrace the possibilities of opening up the curriculum using these tools for research, connectivity, collaboration, innovation, and creation.Next on Wall to Wall Podcast: We will discuss tools for teaching when you are out of the classroom.

How do the largest mountains on Earth drive one of the greatest climatic events witnessed by humans? Peter Clift, the Charles T. McCord Endowed Professor and Dr. Henry V. Howe Distinguished Professorship recipient in the LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics, shares how he uses sediment samples from oceans, rivers, and land to link the development of the Himalayas to the intensity of the Asian monsoon and even connections to the rise and fall of civilizations within the region.

How do the largest mountains on Earth drive one of the greatest climatic events witnessed by humans? Peter Clift, the Charles T. McCord Endowed Professor and Dr. Henry V. Howe Distinguished Professorship recipient in the LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics, shares how he uses sediment samples from oceans, rivers, and land to link the development of the Himalayas to the intensity of the Asian monsoon and even connections to the rise and fall of civilizations within the region.

Neuropsychoanalysis is the latest and most exciting revolution in psychoanalysis where the classical psychoanalytic constructs of theory of mind, subconscious, transference and other, are finding their neural correlates. Join us for the interesting show with Dr. W. Scott Griffies M.D., DFAPA. Dr. Griffies is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine service at Duke Raleigh Hospital. He is boarded in General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and is certified in psychoanalysis from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. He recently relocated to Duke from New Orleans where he was faculty at LSU Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship for over 15 years. His main academic and clinical interest has been in the treatment and understanding of psychosomatic patients. While at LSU, he won numerous teaching awards and worked and directed services predominantly focused on psychiatric aspects of medical and surgical patients. He also served as the LSU Psychiatry Residency Director for 8 years through Hurricane Katrina. His most recent publication was “Non-mentalizing and Non-symbolizing Psychic Functions and Central Sensitization in Psychosomatic Patients”in From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experiences, edited by Phyllis Sloate.  

Psychosomatic conditions include fibromyalgia and other chronic functional pain conditions. These are traditionally hard to treat. In this show, neuropsychoanalysis offers a fresh, effective, and interesting approach to address mind and body.    W. Scott Griffies M.D., DFAPA, is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine service at Duke Raleigh Hospital. He is boarded in General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and is certified in psychoanalysis from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. He recently relocated to Duke from New Orleans where he was faculty at LSU Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship for over 15 years. His main academic and clinical interest has been in the treatment and understanding of psychosomatic patients. While at LSU, he won numerous teaching awards and worked and directed services predominantly focused on psychiatric aspects of medical and surgical patients. He also served as the LSU Psychiatry Residency Director for 8 years through Hurricane Katrina. His most recent publication was “Non-mentalizing and Non-symbolizing Psychic Functions and Central Sensitization in Psychosomatic Patients”in From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experiences, edited by Phyllis Sloate.