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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.

Professor William Plummer and student Maggie Dunn share how the UL Lafayette Chamber Singers are gearing up for the prestigious CantaRode International Choral Competition in the Netherlands. They talk preparation, performance and what it was like recording with the Imagination Movers.

Editor for La Louisiane and senior editorial director for UL, Dr. James Savage, joins La Louisiane managing editor Marie Elizabeth Oliver to discuss what goes into planning a La Louisiane magazine and a future look at the fall issue.

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.

Now that 20 years have passed since Hurricane Katrina and Rita struck Louisiana, many people are sifting through memories. The next couple of days on Après-Midi, you'll hear extended interviews with radio people who spent time at KRVS in the aftermath. Beth Fertig, a seasoned journalist for WNYC in New York covering mass transit and education, was called on by NPR to help with post-Katrina coverage.

Every Friday since it began in the late 1990s, this station has carried the music program American Routes. It's based at Tulane University in New Orleans, but 20 years ago, necessity forced host Nick Spitzer to produce it from KRVS. This is our second extended interview marking the arrival and continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina...and, it does include descriptions of the human and structural damage that followed the storm. Nick, a folklorist who's lived in New Orleans for decades, says ABC News briefly brought him aboard as a cultural consultant for its program Nightline.