By Matt Vines November 14, 2025 SHREVEPORT – In LSU Shreveport’s annual student entrepreneurial competition Friday, a focus on products and services that benefitted families underpinned the winning pitches. LSUS’s Pilot Pitch, a contest in which students develop and present their business plans in front of a judges’ panel for cash prizes, produced pitches from three undergraduate finalists and six graduate finalists in the Davis Business Engagement Center. Undergraduate winne

By Matt Vines November 03, 2025 Join LSUS as the university celebrates military veterans with a Veterans Day program on Nov. 11. STRIKEWERX director Russell Mathers, who served 27 years of active duty in the U.S. Air Force, will deliver the keynote address. The program will take place at 11 a.m. in the LSUS Collaboratory on the first floor of the Technology Building. Mathers served in roles as a B-52 pilot, a B-2 pilot, a U.S. Strategic Command nuclear operations planner, and

By Matt Vines August 27, 2025 SHREVEPORT – With Americans living longer and having fewer children, aging of the population is to be expected. But according to a study conducted by LSUS’s Center for Business and Economic Research, Louisiana is aging faster than the nation overall. The median age of the Louisiana population increased 11 years to 38.4 from 1980-2024, while the U.S. population overall increased to 9.3 years to 39.1 years in the same time period. Historical data w