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freshman forward and midfielder for the LSU soccer team. She had a broken foot from playing in high school and was unable to play to start college while recuperating from foot surgery. Campbell’s first game back from surgery was an away game in Texas. LSU soccer coach Brian Lee put her in as a starter, and Campbell was ready to play. Lee said Campbell was a hardworking prospect of a player. “She was really positive and enthusiastic,”
The University will launch a new research campaign at the start of 2015 focusing on energy, said Ernie Ballard, director of media relations at the University. The Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Research and Economic Development are heading up the “LSU Power Players” energy campaign. LSU Power Players is the most recent research campaign since the University’s “Committed to the Coast” initiative in 2013, a campaign focused on coastal research at the University. Kalliat T. Valsaraj, University vice chancellor for research and economic development, said conventional and renewable energy are some of the University’s strategic focal areas, and he hopes the campaign will continue for several years beyond 2015. “It’s a campaign to explain to people what LSU is doing in this area,” Valsaraj said. Dean of engineering Richard Koubek said the campaign will focus on traditional forms of
see campbell, page 4
see power players, page 15
A New Direction
University student, former soccer player Bonnie Campbell turns career-ending injury into fashion design career
BY meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com
When first meeting Bonnie Campbell, people do not see a girl who was dispirited by an injury that sidelined her hopes of starting on the LSU women’s soccer team. Instead, the textiles, apparel and merchandising senior greets people with a smile and a vibrant energy. She proudly shows off the clothing designs she’s created, and one would never question this wasn’t her originally intended career path. Campbell began her University career as a
College of business
Former business dean and author gives insight into grief Professor turns to writing after loss of wife BY Rose Velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com From business professor to author, Nathan “Nate” Bennett of Georgia State University turned his grief into an eyeopening account of a widower’s journey in his book, “Shannon’s Gift.” Bennett — former Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the E.J. Ourso College of Business — visited the University on Nov. 18 to speak to students in social work professor
Pamela Monroe’s course, Families: Policy and Law, and present to the School of Social Work’s Book Club about his book and the experience of losing his wife, Shannon. Book club attendees are practicing social workers who Nate said can gain insight into the grieving process through his book’s personal and chronological account. He was joined by guest panelists Rev. Michael Alello, Michael Rolfsen and social work adjunct faculty member and practicing social worker Sherry Smelley. “Shannon’s Gift” is a retelling of the blog Nate kept
following Shannon’s unexpected death due to complications from a routine surgical procedure. “After I had been doing it for a while, I realized that there really hadn’t been much written about grieving by men,” Nate said. “Most of what’s written is by women, and I thought that maybe I had a unique opportunity to say what it’s like as a man to go through this grief process.” Nate and Shannon met at a Greek mixer in 1982 while they were both students at Tulane University. A year later, they
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Georgia State University business professor Nate Bennett speaks Tuesday about his book, ‘Shannon’s Gift.’