Baton Rouge-area students complete BASF TECH Academy
Fifteen Baton Rouge-area high school students recently completed BASF’s TECH Academy – a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community...
RPCC hosts STEM Night to raise awareness, connect industry
STEM Night, held last week at the River Parishes Community College Reserve Campus, served as a means to showcase RPCC’s Science, Technology, Engineering and...
GBRIA industrial trade show this Thursday at Lamar-Dixon Expo Center
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance will hold its first Industry Showcase from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center...
SLCC grant earmarked for industrial scaffolding, CDL, lineman training
SkillUp, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping displaced workers land in-demand jobs in high-growth industries, has awarded their first nationally-competitive grant of up to...
LSU research could turn carbon into useful resource
LSU doctoral student Cal Hendershot and his advisor, LSU Professor John Flake, are working on a way to effectively take carbon dioxide from the...
LSU announces new cybersecurity, defense initiative
LSU today announced a new initiative to accelerate cybersecurity and defense studies, grow its ROTC program and build a cyber military corridor on campus.
The...
French named new executive director of LNG Center of Excellence
McNeese State University announced last week that Jason French, a consultant in the liquid natural gas industry, has been named executive director of the...
Cyber Range & Training Center opens at Water Campus in Baton Rouge
The Stephenson Technologies Corporation (STC) hosted a Feb. 1 ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Joint Cyber Range and Training Center on the Water...
Industry leaders tout sense of purpose as way to attract young workers
Offering young workers a sense of purpose can help the petrochemical industry compete for the best and brightest, industry leaders say.
Workforce recruitment was a...
Petroleum engineering most common college degree in Louisiana
Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Louisiana's adults are seven times more likely to have a degree in petroleum engineering than...
