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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and the second-largest enrollment in Louisiana, behind only Louisiana State University.
During his presidency UL Lafayette developed a Ph.D. program in computer science, along with doctoral programs in math, English and history. Under his guidance, UL Lafayette became the state's second largest university and earned the distinction of being the first public university in the state to earn a Doctoral II ranking. [3]
In 2002, Lafayette residents Paul and Lulu Hilliard, presented UL Lafayette Foundation a lead gift of $5 million for the construction of a new $8.5 million university art museum, the vision of Herman Mhire, the museum's founder. The new Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum opened in April 2004. [2]
UL Lafayette will create Community Resilience Hubs, which will be part of a network to help communities maintain access to electricity. UL Lafayette gets largest funding award in its history for ...
Barry Jean Ancelet (born 1951), ULL faculty since 1977; ULL alumni, graduated in 1974; folklorist of Cajun culture and expert of Cajun music and language [1]; Carl A. Brasseaux (born 1951), historian, helped pioneer the field of Cajun history; University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor and director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and the Center for Eco-Tourism, also an alumnus [2]
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns college football team represents the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Sun Belt Conference. The Ragin' Cajuns compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 27 head coaches since it began play during the 1901 season.
Cypress Lake is a 2-acre (0.8 ha) swamp-like lake in the heart of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus that started as a prehistoric bison wallow. Today it is a unique university landmark that is a habitat for native irises, alligators, turtles, birds and fish, as well as a hangout for students and a point of interest for tourists visiting Lafayette, Louisiana.
The University of Louisiana System (UL System) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It enrolls more students than the other three public university systems in the state; [2] as of October 2023, it claims more than 91,500 students throughout its institutions. [1] Its headquarters are in the Claiborne Building in Baton ...