By Matt Vines April 13, 2026 SHREVEPORT – When Scotte Hudsmith attended LSU Shreveport as a student in the early 1980s, he said there were only three buildings on campus. Not unlike his start in the business world, which was a position entering customer orders on the new green screen terminals for the Sears Catalog. Now Hudsmith has started eight different businesses that he said generated billions of dollars of enterprise value, the latest ones excelling at the intersection of healthcare and...

By Matt Vines April 06, 2026 SHREVEPORT – Three LSU Shreveport students took home four top prizes Friday in the largest participant field ever at LSUS’s 11 th annual Regional Student Scholars Forum. Computer science graduate student Devesh Sarda captured the three-minute thesis competition title and paired up with fellow computer science graduate student Udaysinh Rathod to win the graduate student oral presentation category. Biological sciences major Sadie Lyons won the undergraduate poster...

By Matt Vines April 07, 2026 SALT LAKE CITY – When coach Aaron Adams relaunched LSU Shreveport’s collegiate weightlifting program two years ago, he envisioned a steady climb in which the program would reassert itself among the nation’s elite. He just didn’t expect it to come so quickly. When the Pilot men’s and women’s team set foot in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the university nationals this week, LSUS is in serious contention for individual national titles and could be in the conversation for...