Louisiana Tech University started the first program in the U. S. in 2005.

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States.

Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 national university by the 2013 U. S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier 1 national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System.

As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity ( RU / H ), Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

Louisiana Tech University opened as The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894 during the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Louisiana Polytechnic Institute became desegregated in the 1960s, and officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University in 1970.

Louisiana Tech enrolled 11, 581 students in five academic colleges during the Fall 2011 academic quarter including 2, 444 students in the graduate school.

In addition to the main campus in Ruston, Louisiana Tech holds classes at the Louisiana Tech University Shreveport Center, Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City, and Barksdale Air Force Base.

In 2009, Louisiana Tech launched their Executive Master of Business Administration ( EMBA ) program designed specifically for executives and managers.

In 1951, Boggs launched an ill-fated campaign for governor of Louisiana.

During his journey, he has flown the first plane to be launched from a rolling railroad handcar, taken up as a passenger Edward Shaw at Beaumont, Texas, allowing Shaw to film the first aerial motion pictures, and made the first air delivery of medicine, during a flight from Jennings to Evangeline, Louisiana.

The company worked on such construction projects as the First Avenue Viaduct in Birmingham, the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, and Cape Canaveral's Complex 39A which launched Apollo 11 in Florida.

The Navy named a, in his honor, which was launched at the Avondale Shipyards in Westwego, Louisiana by his widow on 4 December 1971.

Loadstar was launched as a sister publication of Softdisk, based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The brainchild of Jim Mangham, who then worked at the LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, Softdisk ( originally intended to be called The Harbinger Magazette, but launched as Softdisk Magazette, with " magazette " being a portmanteau word combining " magazine " and " diskette ") was published out of Mangham's house, with his then-wife Judi Mangham, LSUMC co-worker Al Vekovius, and Softalk magazine ( a paper magazine for the Apple ) as partners in the venture.

The Family International has mobilized Christian Counsellors to provide spiritual healing, comfort and encouragement to the evacuees throughout Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi and have launched Katrina Relief Home to share the needs of the victims of this disaster.

This effectively ended the Louisiana Project which was launched in 2003-2004.

Concerning its domestic borders, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation's geographical area ; Spain ceded the territory of Florida in 1819 ; annexation brought Texas in 1845 ; a war with Mexico in 1848 added California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Grant did effectively use the military to keep peace during the Election of 1874 in Louisiana, the nation's most highly contested Reconstructed states.

Continuing its mission as an engineering pioneer, Louisiana Tech will launch the nation's first cyber engineering BS degree in 2012.

According to the Association for University Technology Managers, Louisiana Tech is ranked as the nation's 2nd best academic institution for innovation productivity as measured by number of new inventions generated per research dollar expended.

Since its formation in 1974, the University of Louisiana System, one of the nation's twenty largest public systems of higher education, has provided access to higher education through its nine universities located throughout the state.

Purchases include the Louisiana and Oregon territories ; Florida and Alaska ; funding the National Road and the Transcontinental Railroad ; building many of the nation's lighthouses ; the U. S. Military and Naval academies, and Washington D. C.

The Rice Belt of the United States includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, four southern U. S. states that grow a significant portion of the nation's rice crop.

Arkansas is the nation's leading rice producer, followed by California ( not part of the Rice Belt ), Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Missouri ( bordering on, but not part of, the Rice Belt ).

The earliest settlers shipped their agricultural goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, but by the 1850s, Iowans had caught the nation's railroad fever.

The cancer center will house state-of-the-art cancer research equipment and laboratories, significant because Louisiana has the nation's highest cancer mortality rate according to the American Cancer Society.

Perhaps the nation's most outspoken white Radical on the " race question " in the late 1880s and 1890s, Tourgée had called for resistance to the Louisiana law in his widely read newspaper column, " A Bystander's Notes ," which, though written for the Chicago Republican ( later known as the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean and after 1872 known as the Chicago Record-Herald ), was syndicated in many newspapers across the country.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

* 1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U. S. state.

Map of the Louisiana PurchaseThe first Europeans to settle the Gulf Coast were primarily the French and the Spanish.

The Louisiana Purchase and the Texas Revolution made the Gulf Coast a part of the United States during the first half of the 19th century.

The film was a huge success in American theaters, earning $ 383, 744 in its first three days in Texas and Louisiana alone.

In 1908, the first natural gas pipeline was constructed to transport gas from Caddo-Pine Island to Shreveport, Louisiana.

His birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee ; in Alabama, it is celebrated on the first Monday in June.

After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.

In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz may be the first historian of Louisiana with his Histoire de la Louisiane ( 3 vols., Paris, 1758 ; 2 vols., London, 1763 )

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

The Saints were forced to play their first scheduled home game against the New York Giants at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey ( the Giants ' home stadium ); other home games were rescheduled at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas or Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

On September 19, Saints owner Tom Benson announced that the team had sold out the Louisiana Superdome for the entire season with season tickets alone ( 70, 001 seats ), a first in franchise history.

* 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.

Reports of Passenger Pigeon sightings kept coming in from Arkansas and Louisiana, in groups of tens and twenties, until the first decade of the 20th century.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

* 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $ 1. 42 billion ($ 10 – 12 billion in 2005 dollars ) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $ 1 billion in unadjusted damages.

In 1992, he was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia as the first Director, Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, a position held until 1994 when he was reassigned to South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea.

However, Steve Forbes finished first in Delaware and Arizona while paleoconservative firebrand Pat Buchanan managed early victories in Alaska and Louisiana, in addition to a strong second place in the Iowa caucuses and a surprising victory in the small but key New Hampshire primary.

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.

* February 24 – The first parade to have floats occurs at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

* March 7 – Jacques Villeré, first Creole governor of Louisiana ( b. 1761 )