News & Announcements from CxC
LSU Celebrates 85 Distinguished Communicators during May 2026 Commencement
Eighty-five graduates crossing the stage during May Commencement will do so wearing something most of their peers won't: the LSU Distinguished Communicator Medal. Spanning nine colleges across campus, this exceptional cohort represents the best of what Geaux Communicate looks like in practice--writers, speakers, and visual thinkers who have spent their undergraduate careers proving that communication isn't a soft skill. It's the skill.
Vince Wilson, 2026 C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award recipient
Vince Wilson has spent more than three decades helping students find their scientific voice—in the classroom, in front of their peers, and eventually, in the careers that follow.
Yao Wang, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award recipient
For Yao Wang, a landscape architecture student's education isn't complete until they've stood at a farmers market booth, maps spread across a folding table, explaining flood dynamics to a stranger who has never heard the word "hydrology."
Nick Totaro, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award recipient
For Nick Totaro, Senior Instructor in LSU's Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering (BAE), teaching engineering means teaching students that their work has to reach someone.
Nihar Sreepada, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award recipient
From the first week of the semester, Nihar Sreepada tells students something that reframes everything that follows: when they walk into his class, they are not students. They are professionals.
Roxanne Dill, 2026 C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award recipient
For Roxanne Dill, teaching mass communication has never been just about the craft of writing—it's about preparing students to communicate with confidence in a world that keeps changing the rules.
2026 C-I Teaching Award Recipients
Recipients of these awards represent the commitment, dedication, and excellence that define and enable the LSU CxC program to transform teaching, learning, and ultimately, student success.
84 students earn the LSU Communicator Certificate in Fall 2025
To earn the LSU Communicator Certificate, students must earn a grade of B- or higher in a series of Communication-Intensive (C-I) courses that focus on demonstrating competency in written, spoken, visual, and technological communication within the discipline. Since launching in Fall 2018, 1,501 students have earned the LSU Communicator Certificate.
CxC's Celebrate a Teacher Initiative offers a student perspective on exceptional teaching at LSU
Every Fall, CxC launches its annual Celebrate a Teacher campaign through a form with a simple prompt. This year, the response form was open from November 10 through November 20, generating 555 responses for 333 faculty members.
