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UL Press Publishes Cajun Comic Strip Anthology

Louisiana.edu on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 12:54

The University of Louisiana Press will launch the book Tout Bec Doux: The Complete Cajun Comics of Ken Meaux and Earl Comeaux today, Wednesday, October 19, in the The Kaplan Museum, Kaplan, Louisiana. Not only is Bec Doux important historically as the first Cajun comic strip, but also as one of the earliest attempts to record the Cajun and Creole dialects of South Louisiana in print.

UL Team's iPad App is Apple Staff Favorite

CILAT on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 16:25

Geographia, an iPad app for teaching US states and capitals, has been selected by Apple as a "staff favorite". The app was designed and built by CILAT in the College of Education.

UL, A&M Educational Game is Semifinalist in International Competition

CILAT on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 16:31

RiggleFish, an educational game designed by UL and Texas A&M, has been selected as a semifinalist in the Innovation in Interactive Media in Education category of the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards competition.  RiggleFish is designed to teach scientific inquiry and genetics, and was developed by a team from UL's Center for Innovative Learning and Assessment Technologies (CILAT) working with faculty and students at Texas A&M University.

UL Team Launches Virtual Hydrologic Tool

CILAT on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 12:13

With $150,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation, a UL team has created HydroViz, an educational virtual hydrologic observatory based on the integration of field data, remote sensing observations and computer simulations of hydrologic variables and processes designed to be used in junior/senior/graduate level courses on hydrology, water resources engineering or related subjects.

UL Adds Video Game Concentration

La Louisiane on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 09:39

Game Boys (and Girls): Video game design and development concentration added for computer science bachelor's degree.

The Louisiana Computing Carnival Celebration

Submitted Article on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 14:29

This year signifies 50 years of computing at UL and CACS 25th anniversary. To honor these milestones we will be celebrating our achievements and accomplishments with our friends, supporters, and alumni on Oct. 30th.

UL Researches Virtual Reality

La Louisiane on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 09:15

Virtual Advantage: High-tech tools link university, military training centers.
It looks like a war zone in the University of Louisiana's Abdalla Hall. Actually, special 3-D glasses are needed to see the battle because it’s a virtual war zone.

Alum Kody Chamberlain, Cartoonist

ultoday.com Staff on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 19:59

UL has quite a few large initiatives that rely on cartooning: LITE, computer animation, video games, the Film Studies program, a volume reprinting the Bec Doux comics coming from the Center for Louisiana Studies, the research of Fabrice Leroy in Modern Languages, and efforts from local government to land a film production company in Lafayette. From all of these, cartooning is becoming a critical industry. We spoke recently with UL alum Kody Chamberlain, a local cartoonist who has been successful selling his work and concepts to both film and the graphic novel.

Educational Video Games: Doug Williams & Yuxin Ma

CILAT on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 15:48

Educational games are one facet of a multiple threat UL is assembling: computer gaming, film, animation, and 3D/4D supercomputing & visualization. ultoday.com interviews the scholars who head UL's Center for Innovative Learning and Assessment Technology, where many innovative educational games are created.