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LSU CEE Professor Researches Sea Level Rise
LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Chunli Dai recently received a $68,740 grant from the California Institute of Technology for her research on sea level rise, which could affect every person on the globe.
LSU Health’s Cohen-Rosenblum 1st Female British Hip Society Traveling Fellow
Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the first female to be awarded the prestigious The Hip Society-British Hip Society Traveling Fellowship.
LSU, Ohio State and RPI Faculty Combine for Project on Computational Storage
Faculty from LSU, The Ohio State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have each been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to solve the widening gap between computational processing and storage, thereby increasing high-speed data processing and enabling computational storage to address critical challenges in increasingly more data-centric applications.
Q&A: LSU Archival Researcher gives expert advice on protecting irreplaceable items ahead of hurricane season
Q&A: LSU Archival Researcher gives expert advice on protecting irreplaceable items ahead of hurricane season
Work Begins in University Lakes
Restoration work has begun in University Lake near the intersection of East Lakeshore Drive and Stanford Avenue.
LSU and Fullstack Academy Launch Product Management Program
National tech education provider Fullstack Academy and Louisiana State University today announced the launch of a new product management bootcamp program. The curriculum is designed to train professionals on the skills needed to fill over 10,000 product management jobs in the Baton Rouge metro area in just 25 weeks.
Shell Invests $27.5 Million in LSU to Establish Institute for Energy Innovation and Catalyze New Campus District Focused on Scientific Discovery
A $27.5 million gift from Shell USA, Inc., will establish the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation and enable construction of the LSU Our Lady of the Lake Interdisciplinary Science Building, the university's top capital priority.
LSU to Announce Eight-figure Philanthropic Investment in Energy-related Initiatives
On June 23, LSU President William F. Tate IV will announce an eight-figure gift that will catalyze LSU's commitment to finding new ways to fuel the nation. This historic gift, which sets multiple fundraising records for the university, is the latest transformative investment in LSU's Scholarship First Agenda.
International Team Including Two Pennington Biomedical Faculty Awarded $25 Million for Cancer Research
Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty members Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., and Justin C. Brown, Ph.D., are members of a team led by the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Weill Cornell Medicine and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that have secured $25 million to take on the challenge of cachexia, the debilitating wasting condition responsible for up to 30 percent of cancer deaths.
Two LSU Students Named 2022-23 Astronaut Scholars by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
LSU students Rachael Coates, a native of Baton Rouge, and Cale Locicero, a native of Metairie, were named 2022-23 Astronaut Scholars, becoming LSU’s 13th and 14th recipients ever.