LSU’s Flores MBA Program, the flagship program of the E. J. Ourso College of Business, will offer a concentrated series for those wishing to prepare for the Certified Internal Auditor Exam without actually having to enroll in LSU as a matriculating student. [MORE]

Joseph Mason, the Hermann Moyse Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association Endowed Chair of Banking in the finance department of LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, appeared on the Fox Business [MORE]

David Songy, co-founder and chief executive officer of the commercial real estate firm Songy Partners, will appear Friday, October 31, 2008 as part of the LSU Flores MBA Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series [MORE]

The LSU Stephenson Disaster Management Institute has selected its first round of research affiliates. Faculty members honored with this distinction come from various disciplines on campus, have shown an active interest [MORE]

Gary Sanger, distinguished professor of finance in the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business and director of the college’s Securities Markets Analysis Research Training Lab [MORE]

The LSU Department of Economics will host the prestigious two-day National Bureau of Economic Research conference entitled Economic Aspects of Obesity [MORE]

LSU economists Loren Scott and James Richardson formally released the findings of the annual Louisiana Economic Outlook report for 2009-2010 at the Louisiana Business & Technology Expo’s Top 100 [MORE]

The editors of Advances in Econometrics, a research annual published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, are currently soliciting abstracts and papers covering applied or theoretical topics relevant to the application of maximum simulated likelihood estimation and inference. [MORE]