Governor John Bel Edwards approved legislation that would front load the TOPS program in the new budget. Halen Doughty has more on how students feel about this change…
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The Colorado State University forecast team has upped the number of anticipated named storms in 2016 by one. Don Molino reports…:
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The pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, agrees to develop cancer immunotherapy drugs that were discovered by an LSU Health Shreveport professor and scientists at a university in Poland. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The budget for this fiscal year front-loads state spending on the TOPS scholarship program. This means students on TOPS will have their tuition funded for the fall semester but only have 42-percent covered in the spring. LSU student Ally Balthazar has been on the scholarship program for the last three years and her parents pay out of pocket for the expenses left over
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LSU President F. King Alexander doesn’t support the front-loading of the program, because he believes it will be difficult for students to get financial aid for the spring semester. Balthazar says she still plans on applying for federal student aid for the spring semester…
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Balthazar says the TOPS program not being fully funded puts a financial struggle on her family and there’s also extra pressure to do better in school…
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The Colorado State University forecast team has upped the number of anticipated named storms in 2016 by one. In June they called for 14 named storms, now they predict 15. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the change is due to the fact that there are already 4 named storms on the books this year. He says that’s the most ever for this early in the season…:
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The Atlantic Hurricane season runs from June 1st through November. The updated forecast calls for 6 storms to become hurricanes, and two of those major systems with winds of 111 per hour or more. Keim says the forecast for the season is still made up of counter-balancing forces, as a La Nina is expected to take effect at the heart of the hurricane season…:
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Historically, the most active part of the hurricane season is August and September. Keim says the peak is around September 10th…:
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The town of Welsh, located in in Jefferson Davis Parish, is now the official The Home of the Cajun Dictionary.” Mayor Carolyn Louviere says the town’s long time former late pastor, Father Jules Daigle, wasn’t pleased with the way Cajun French was spoken and wrote two books on the language. She credits Welsh’s city council for taking steps to get this official designation…
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Louviere says copies of “A Dictionary of Cajun Language” and “Cajun Self Taught” by Father Daigle can be purchased in Welsh and on Amazon. She says the town will hold a special celebration on their new designation…
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Louviere says everyone in the town is proud to call Welsh “The Home of the Cajun Dictionary.” She says Father Daigle would be happy with the accomplishment.
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A deal has been struck to develop cancer immunotherapy drugs first discovered by LSU Health Shreveport professor Doctor Robert Rhoads and scientists at the University of Warsaw in Poland. Immunotherapy is already used in treatment of melanoma and prostate cancer. Rhoads says pharmaceutical company Sanofi has paid a licensing fee to see if immunotherapy could work with other types of cancer
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Rhoads says immunotherapy would not have the toxic side effects of current chemotherapy drugs and it would direct a person’s immune system to attack cancer cells until the last one is gone.
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Rhoads, who lost both of his parents to cancer, is excited Sanofi will seek to develop this treatment to other cancers. He says it takes hundreds of millions of dollars for biotechnology companies to bring a new drug to the market and hopefully Sanofi will have success
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