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at the ballet Biochemistry freshman performs in local dance company BY EMILIE HEBERT emiliehebert@lsureveille.com
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irouettes and pointe shoes, turn-outs and tutus. Three hours a day, five days a week. Between her classes, oncampus job and strict dance schedule, biochemistry freshman Katie Rose DeLeo said she doesn’t have much free time. Despite the added pressures and commitments of dancing in the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre Company, she wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s what I’ve always loved to do. It’s my place to go and
relax and just take a break from the world and anything that’s going on,” DeLeo said. “I just go to dance.” DeLeo is one of 24 dancers in the “Beyond Ballet” show presented by the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Baton Rouge River Center Theatre, one of three shows put on by the theater each year. The spring show varies in genre every year. “Beyond Ballet”
see BALLET, page 19 Students from across the state protest higher education budget cuts Wednesday outside of the Capitol building.
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Volume 119 · No. 126 UNIVERSITY
Federal funds help research
BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series dealing with faculty research and budget cuts to Louisiana higher education. Each school year, countless University researchers compete for funds, but recent trends show federal funding applicants might benefit more from collaboration than competition. While budget sequestration — a process that places limitations on the size of the federal budget — has played a major role in making sources of federal research funding less available, vice president for research and economic development and chemical engineering professor Kalliat Valsaraj said collaboration among various academic disciplines and institutions makes obtaining federal funds easier. Valsaraj said, in recent years, federal sources of money for research projects have been shifting away from providing funds for single-discipline projects and moving toward increased funds for multi-institutional and multidisciplinary projects. For fiscal year 2013-14, which ended in June, 58.2 percent of the University’s external funding for research came from federal sources. With 23.6 percent of the research money coming from the state and 18.2 percent from other sources, such as industry and private donation, federal funds make up the largest portion of the University’s external research funding. “Federal money for simple, single projects are becoming more and more difficult, but
see FEDERAL MONEY, page 19