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Marie Elizabeth Oliver

Managing Editor of La Louisiane and host of La Louisiane on KRVS

Marie Elizabeth Oliver is the managing editor of La Louisiane, the official magazine of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Southern Living, CNN, New Orleans Public Radio, Acadiana Profile and The Current. She can be reached at marie.oliver@louisiana.edu.

  • College of Liberal Arts Dean Ani Kokobobo shares with La Louisiane what excites her most about leading UL Lafayette's oldest college, how its research centers foster community connection and why liberal arts thinking is more essential than ever in today’s world.
  • After 22 years as a founding member of the Emmy Award-winning children's band, Imagination Movers, Scott Durbin knows the music industry backwards and forwards. The Recording Academy of the United States recently selected the assistant professor in UL Lafayette's School of Music and Performing Arts as a Grammy U mentor.
  • The Office of Veteran & Military Student Services at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette celebrated the grand opening of a new student center in Agnes Edwards Hall during Veterans Week. Office of Veteran and Military Student Services Director Danielle Doucet and Kade Hessler, president of the Student Veterans Organization, discuss its impact.
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie discusses his vision for the University's next chapter.Click here for a full transcript of the interview
  • Molly Rowe, a Lafayette native with two decades of experience working with arts and culture organizations around the world, has been named executive director of the Hilliard Art Museum – University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
  • Dr. Heather Stone, associate professor in the College of Education & Human Development, spent the last eight years collecting oral histories from former residents of Isle de Jean Charles after their ancestral home was nearly wiped out from erosion and subsidence.
  • Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Football will soon have a new kind of home-field advantage. The transformation of Cajun Field to Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium will change the way football fans experience game day. Trey Frazier, deputy athletic director and executive director of RCAF, and Scott Hebert, director of facility management, discuss the vision behind the new stadium.
  • Instructors Leah Dawsey and Katie Potier have helped to expand the ASL and Deaf Studies program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They discuss the impact of their work, where they see the program going in the future and a new Deaf Awareness Month event coming to campus this September.
  • Dan Hare, Alumni Association director of community engagement, discusses the recent acquisition of a diploma from 1903 that belonged to the Alumni Association’s founding president, Pothier Jean (P.J.) Voorhies.