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JaCaleb Smith worked at a trampoline park during his first semester studying chemical engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
by Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Jul. 24 2021 @ 9:28pm
LAFAYETTE, La. JaCaleb Smith worked at a trampoline park during his first semester studying chemical engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Along with his summer job at Home Depot, his earnings went to pay for college, but he still wondered if he should or could stay in school. I was paying out of pocket, the 19-year-old said. It makes people want to stop. Honestly, I did. I had to figure out where the money would come from.
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UL to possibly take over Lafayette Science Museum
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A deal is being negotiated for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to take over operations of the Lafayette Science Museum, according to The Acadiana Advocate.
The museum on Jefferson Street in downtown Lafayette was closed about a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of its staff was laid off and its budget cut by Mayor-President Josh Guillory.
As Guillory has in his Proposed American Rescue Plan Budget of 2021, the museum is said to have lost a revenue of $105,390, according to what is made available to his administration.
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A peculiar geologic finding from the dinosaur-killing asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago indicates that 52-foot-tall megaripples hides deep under Louisiana, and the largest known megaripples on Earth.
These megaripples are about 5,000 feet (1,500 m) under the Iatt Lake area, in north central Louisiana, as tall as a five-story building. Their formation was dated back to the Cretaceous period when that part of the state was underwater.
Researchers say that its size and orientation was formed after the occurrence of the giant Chicxulub asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula and led to the Chicxulub impact tsunami.
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