Recent News
LSU Selected by Amazon as an Education Partner for Career Choice Program
LSU will provide Amazon hourly employees that live in Louisiana access to online and on-campus bachelor’s degrees and college credit certificates; Amazon’s Career Choice program provides full tuition to learn new skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere
LSU President Tate will speak at Press Club on Monday, March 7
William F. Tate IV, president of LSU, will speak to the Press Club of Baton Rouge on Monday, March 7. His topic is “Building LSU’s Scholarship First agenda to preserve and protect Louisiana.”
LSU Recognizes Six Outstanding Professors as 'Rainmakers'
The LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED, has selected the six LSU faculty members, who are leaders in their respective fields, to receive the Rainmaker Award this year.
Laura Choate Named Interim Director of LSU School of Education
The LSU College of Human Sciences & Education named Laura Hensley Choate, EdD, as interim director of the LSU School of Education. Choate's appointment follows Dr. Neil Mathews, Patrick and Edwige Olinde Professor, announcing his retirement this year.
LSU Reilly Center’s 2022 Breaux Symposium “Civic Engagement for the Common Good” to Explore the Intersection of Civic Engagement and Philanthropy
Citizens-turned-community leaders have the potential to enact positive change with the right tools and resources. Join the LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs’ 2022 John Breaux Symposium as national and state leaders discuss what it means to engage civically and explore the ways citizens can play a role in bettering their communities.
Throw Me Something Sustainable, Mister
LSU graduate Brett Davis hopes spectators at this year's Mardi Gras parades catch one of his sustainable throws. After receiving his master's degree from LSU in landscape architecture in 2013, he stays busy through his business that renovates historic New Orleans homes, and his non-profit called Grounds Krewe that he hopes will bring positive change to the waste created by Mardi Gras.
Michelle Livermore Named Director of LSU School of Social Work
The LSU College of Human Sciences & Education named Michelle Livermore, LMSW, PhD, as director of the LSU School of Social Work. Livermore’s appointment follows the culmination of a national search upon Dr. Pam Monroe, Lois Canulette & W. A. "Buster" Baker Memorial LSU Alumni Association Departmental Professor, announcing her retirement this year.
LSU Engineering Faculty Work to Develop Water Treatment for Wells
As of 2019, 43 million Americans did not have access to public water systems and relied on private wells. Indeed, a 2015 report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed that 11-30 percent of residents in Louisiana got their water supply from private wells. The national average was 14 percent.
LSU Experts Available to Speak about Russian Invasion of Ukraine
LSU faculty experts are available for media interviews about topics surrounding the Ukraine-Russia Crisis.
Contractor Selected for University Lakes Project
The University Lakes Project Management Committee has awarded a construction contract to Sevenson Environmental Services Inc. Sevenson will work with the project master designer, Sasaki Associates Inc., and flood risk reduction designer, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., to finalize design and develop a guaranteed maximum price for the first phase of work, including flood risk reduction and mobility improvements.
LSU Researchers Feed Worms a Natural Plant Extract; Watch Them Fatten, Live 40% Longer
A research team in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a landmark study linking greater metabolic health—achieved through a natural plant extract—with longer lifespans in roundworms.
Flake, Students Working to Increase Performance in Multi-Chip Packages
How do we transfer data at terabits per second for future applications like autonomous vehicles, phones, and computers?
New COVID-19 Treatment Developed by Skymount Medical in Partnership with LSU Approved for Use in Patients in the United Kingdom
Skymount Medical, a drug discovery company using an artificial intelligence, or AI, platform developed by LSU researchers to repurpose and build new drugs, announced today that it has received approval to conduct a human clinical trial of its new oral therapeutic for COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom.
LSU Office of Research & Economic Development Welcomes New Associate Vice President
LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED, welcomes LSU Professor Janna Oetting as its new associate vice president of humanities, social sciences and allied fields.
LSU Health Shreveport Innovation Offers New Approach to Solving Addiction
By targeting the stress-response system in the brain, an LSU pharmacologist has discovered a way to decrease drug craving and relapse into drug use.