Off the vine: Paul Coreil, LSU AgCenter vice chancellor and director of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, has announced he will retire Sept. 15 but continue in his present duties until July 1. Coreil has been in his current position for 12 years and with the AgCenter for more than 34 years. “I owe much of my life and any small successes I have accomplished as an extension professional to the AgCenter, our stakeholders, and the hard-working faculty and staff who improve the lives of so many statewide,” says Coreil in a prepared statement. The AgCenter has more details here.
Calling all Colonels: The face-lift of Nicholls State University’s football stadium is finished, a little behind schedule but on budget, reports The (Thibodaux) Daily Comet. The more than $1.3 million project focused on replacing the stadium’s 40-year-old, six-person elevator, which had become dangerously unstable. Renovations to John L. Guidry Stadium also included a façade upgrade, a lobby enlargement and a patio addition to the front of the stadium. Check out the full story here.
Sizing it up: Dismayed that family members are spread out around the house, each with a separate PC or tablet? Lenovo has something it believes will get them back together: a computer the size of a coffee table that works like a gigantic tablet and lets four people use it at once. Lenovo Group Ltd., one of the world’s largest PC makers, is calling the IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC the first “interpersonal computer”— as opposed to a personal computer. Check it out here.
