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By Jonathan Specht

Sleep in a Box event to raise homelessness awareness

On Sunday, Mar. 29, LSU’s Residential Hall Association will be holding an event called Sleep in a Box, in which students spend a night in cardboard boxes to raise money and awareness for the problem of homelessness in the Baton Rouge area. Participants will build their own houses at the event out of cardboard and tape, and houses will be judged for creativity. By spending a night outside of the comfort of their own beds, students will get a chance to experience the situation that the homeless deal with every day. The event is for LSU students only. Registration is $15, and is available at SleepinaBox.org.

LSU School of Social Work receives its largest donation ever

Margaret Champagne Womack, LSU alumna and widow of area businessman Milton Womack, announced a donation of $250,000 to the LSU School of Social Work. The funds will go towards increasing the Margaret Champagne Womack Professorship in Addictive Disorders, which will support the Addictive Disorders Training Initiative. Graduate students in the program will study addictions and hold internships in addictions or secondary diagnosis programs. Womack has been a strong supporter of the LSU School of Social Work and of the Baton Rouge community, and is a former director of the Stop Rape Crisis Center.

Area students attend animation workshop with Red Stick Festival

On March 19 and 20, students from schools in the Baton Rouge area attended a workshop at the Shaw Center for the Arts to prepare short films for Baton Rouge’s annual Red Stick International Animation Festival which will take place downtown between April 16 and 19. The part of the festival in which students participated was Animation Collaboration for a Cause, which involves artists working closely with school-age children from Louisiana to help them to create animation about their experiences with issues. This year’s theme is natural disaster preparedness, and Baton Rouge area students have collaborated with students from Pakistan and Uzbekistan on the project.

LSU professor receives prestigious fellowship

Biological and agricultural engineering professor Marybeth Lima was recently elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. She was recognized as a member of the AIMBE College of Fellows with 81 others at a ceremony in Washington, DC. Lima was recognized for her contributions in biological and agricultural engineering education for her work in integrating service learning with education. Lima’s service learning project has involved working with public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish to design “dream playgrounds” and make them a reality. So far, Lima and her students have designed or constructed 13 playgrounds.

LSU to host International Water Conference

The Transatlantic Water Symposium, “Water: Friend or Foe,” will be held from March 31 to April 1 at LSU’s Lod Cook Alumni Center. The conference will feature speakers from Germany, the Netherlands and 12 states, and it will cover the topics of water quality and management and river ecosystems. The final day of the conference will include a trip to New Orleans to view the Mississippi River and Hurricane Levee Systems. The conference is open to LSU students and faculty and will be free to attend.

Originally Published: Issue 601 - March 26, 2008

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