THIBODAUX, La. – Two Nicholls State University Mass Communication faculty members, along with two students, will present “Louisiana’s Restoration Generation: The Global Conversation” at Newcastle University in England on Thursday.
The lecture, sponsored by the Students Against Species Extinction, has been accepted by the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration program and is being featured on the UN program’s website.
The lecture will feature Nicholls State University Mass Communication professors Nicki Boudreaux and Laure Kasovish and students Anne-Morgan Simmons and Elissa Walker.
The hybrid event is set to take place at Newcastle University, England, in the Armstrong Building room 3.38 or online through Zoom from 7 to 8 a.m. CST on March 20, 2025.
The lecture will focus on sharing Louisiana’s land loss crisis on a global stage while also encouraging college students around the world to take up conservation and restoration activities and careers wherever they live. It is part of the Louisiana’s Restoration Generation movement which was launched at the University’s inaugural Coastal Summit last week.
“Presenting this campaign to the United Nations is vital to the success of what we are doing as Nicholls students to bring together young adults like us around the world who are passionate about saving our homes,” said Elissa Walker, mass communication senior. “Being recognized as a project by the UN was our ultimate goal, and we achieved it.”
The Louisiana’s Restoration Generation project is part of the Mass Communication department’s Nancy Sanderson Matherne Institute on Global Communication.
Registration is available here.
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Please contact kellie.daniels@newcastle.ac.uk with any questions.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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