Welcome to ULM

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Welcome to ULM
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75 years of Changes
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Intellectual Infrastructure

• FYE Summer Reading Program, Learning
  Communities, FRYS 101, Emerging Scholars
• 129 new faculty in 3 years
• Student Success Center, CBER
• Presidents Lyceum Series
• Chautauqua-Nexus
• VAPA and Louisiana Lyric Opera

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Intellectual Infrastructure

• Freshmen ACT 21.3 Average ACT 21.0
• Doubled number of TOPS students
• Grants 21.8M (NSF, NIH, DOD, DOE)
• ETS Recognition of Excellence
• Nine Student ADDY Awards
• Dr. Ralph Brown, West Point Fellow
• Dr. Kim Marie Tolson, ASB President-Elect

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Atmospheric Sciences

• Only program in LA or AR
• Research on hurricanes and tropical storms
  striking land
• Stephanie Mullins Ernest F. Hollings
  Undergraduate Scholarship

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Visual and Performing Arts

• Combined Art, Music, Theatre Dance
• Instrumental Music Ed Opera
• Dance director with Broadway experience
• All theatre students placed in summer stock jobs

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Kinesiology

• Accreditation
• MS Clinical Exercise Physiology (1st)
• BS Exercise Science (2nd)
• 1 million USDoE grant (ULM MCSS) modernize
  physical education
• Pennington Biomedical Research Center on 2.4M
  NIH and 220K LaGEAR UP grants (Pennington
  Biomedical Research Center) child obesity and
  rural teacher professional development

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TeachNortheast

• Alternative teacher certification program
• Paid internship while taking classes
• 263 completers, 98 active since 2002
• LaT2T 2.4 million grant, 4 universities, 30
  districts (163 participants in 2 years)

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Pharmacy

• LAs College of Pharmacy (50 yrs)
• Training at LSU Health Sciences Centers in
  Monroe, Shreveport, and New Orleans/Baton Rouge
• Campus in Shreveport established New Orleans
  campus in development

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Pharmacy Research

• Topics cancer, heart disease, diabetes, tissue
  repair, obesity, drug delivery, natural products
• Distinguished senior faculty and promising new
  faculty
• Collaborations
• LA CAMD, LSU Veterinary, LSUHSC, IfM, UNO, ULL
• US Johns Hopkins, Lawrence Livermore, Ford
  Cancer Center, International Karolinska
  Institute, Kuwait University, Malaysian Palm Oil
  Board
• FY06 Grants 10.4 million

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BS in Health Studies

• Starts Spring 2007
• Two options
• Pre-professional health sciences
• Healthcare management and marketing
• Jobs
• Entry into professional graduate programs
• Pharmaceutical or medical sales
• Nursing home administrator
• Hospital department administrator
• Expect 200-400 majors in five years

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Great Education. Good Times. Bright
Future.