August 9, 2022 LSU Health New Orleans Discovers Major Contributor to Alzheimer’s Disease: Research led by Drs. Yuhai Zhao and Walter J Lukiw at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center and the Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Neurology and Ophthalmology, reports for the first time a pathway that begins in the gut and ends with a potent pro-inflammatory toxin in brain cells contributing to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
August 4, 2022 ECE Ph.D. Student Wins Pair of Awards at IEEE Events: Mohadese Movahednia, a research assistant and Ph.D. student in the LSU Division of Electrical & Computer Engineering, was recently awarded the3rd best paper award at the 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Texas Power and Energy Conference and 2nd best poster award at the 2022 IEEE PES (Power and Energy Society) General Meeting.
August 3, 2022 Below-average Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ measured: NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 3,275 square miles.
August 3, 2022 LSU AgCenter to Expand Bioproducts, Bioprocessing Research with New Grant: The Louisiana Board of Regents has awarded the LSU AgCenter Louisiana Institute for Bioproducts and Bioprocessing a grant of nearly $1 million to upgrade equipment for the state-approved institute.
August 3, 2022 LSU PETE Faculty, ExxonMobil URC Study Gas Migration at PERTT Lab: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has joined forces with LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering faculty to conduct gas migration experiments as part of a financial grant from ExxonMobil URC.
August 2, 2022 LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions: The LSU Libraries was one of five to receive the 2022 Catalyst Fund from LYRASIS, which serves and supports 1,000 academic and public libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage organizations in 28 countries.
July 28, 2022 Looking to Save on Back-to-School Shopping This Year? Find Out the Effect that Caffeine Might Have on Your Spending: It’s that time of year again: back-to-school shopping season! At the end of every summer, parents pack their kids in the car and head to a crowded Wal-Mart or Target to search for sales on school supplies for the upcoming academic year.
July 28, 2022 Two Studies Look at Female Athletes’ Mental, Physical Resilience: Two new studies will examine female athletes’ mental and physical resilience via two newly funded grants, dedicated to improving performance and helping people thrive throughout their lives.
July 27, 2022 LSU Chemical Engineering Faculty Researching Means of Decreasing Greenhouse Gases: Combustion of natural gas, chiefly comprised of methane, provides a major portion of our nation’s energy needs. Additionally, methane can be reacted with steam in a process known as methane steam reforming to produce carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2), which are then used to produce a wide range of fuels and chemicals.
July 27, 2022 Two LSU Graduate Students Named Knauss Fellowship Finalists: Sponsored by the National Sea Grant College Program, the John A. Knauss Fellowship matches graduate students with an interest in ocean and coastal resources and national policy affecting those resources with hosts in federal legislative or executive branch offices for one year.
July 25, 2022 LSU Reveals Keys to Successful Crisis Communication: Government officials and media representatives help form a “best practices” list for effective communication during extreme weather events.
July 22, 2022 LSU Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Professor Awarded Fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study: Mark Wagner, professor of Arabic in the LSU Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, has been awarded a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Wagner will undertake the research project titled, “The Rothschilds of Arabia and Africa: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Mercantile Empire Under the British Raj.”
July 20, 2022 Four LSU Faculty Awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Awards: Four LSU researchers have been awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious grant for early-career faculty, who exhibit potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
July 12, 2022 Is Employee Well-Being More Important Than the Bottom Line when Considering Adoption of AI?: ately, employee well-being has been found at the core of business resilience, while the bottom line has become somewhat of a secondary concern. Will the importance of “people-oriented” aspects of business be long-lasting, or is this just a result of the Covid-19 pandemic? In a recent study, LSU SDEIS Professor Andrew Schwarz explored whether human-centered attributes or cost-related attributes are more important to companies in relation to adopting artificial intelligence.
July 11, 2022 Global Physicist Gabriela González Featured in International Women Astronomer Book: LSU Boyd Professor of Physics Gabriela González is featured in a new international book titled “The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words.” The book is a series of 37 autobiographical essays by women astronomers showcasing their encounters breaking down barriers and changing the face of modern astronomy.
July 7, 2022 Protecting Our Coastline: LSU oceanographer develops new model to better predict barrier island retreat.
June 28, 2022 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.
June 17, 2022 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.
June 16, 2022 LSU CEE Faculty Measure, Work to Address Contamination in Louisiana Rivers: Even though temperatures will soar into the 90s this summer, Louisianans may want to think twice before jumping into a few local rivers to cool off. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professors Aaron Bivins and Samuel Snow have a $497,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
June 15, 2022 LSU Libraries Awarded Carnegie Whitney Grant to Research the Idealized American West and Its Place Today: The LSU Libraries is one of 10 institutions awarded the American Library Association's 2022 Carnegie Whitney Grant for the proposal, "Blood and Thunder: The Idealized American West and Its Place Today."
June 2, 2022 2022 'Dead Zone' May Remain Three Times Larger than the Goal Established in 2001: A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2022 is that it will cover 5,881 square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas.
June 2, 2022 2022 Hurricane Season: LSU Experts Available: LSU has a number of experts available to discuss topics related to storm preparedness, climate, economic impacts, recovery efforts and more during the 2022 hurricane season.
May 31, 2022 Skymount Medical Wins Silver Stevie Award for Its LSU-Developed DeepDrug™ Artificial Intelligence Platform to Accelerate Drug Discovery: Skymount Medical, a drug discovery company using an artificial intelligence platform developed by LSU researchers to repurpose and build new drugs for innovative new therapies, announced today that its DeepDrug™ AI platform to accelerate drug discovery has garnered a Silver Stevie Award in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Solution category of the 20th Annual American Business Awards. This recognition further positions DeepDrug™ as a global leader in artificial intelligence.
May 26, 2022 New Director Joins LSU's Stephenson National Center for Security Research and Training: LSU's Stephenson National Center for Security Research and Training, or SNCSRT, has a new executive director, James Olson.
May 24, 2022 LSU ME Faculty Team Up With NASA to Advance Additively Manufactured Materials: Launch vehicles and propulsion systems are very complex and must survive extreme thermal, dynamic, pressure, and environmental loads. The materials and alloys used in these systems are often challenging to produce, costly, and have long lead times.
May 19, 2022 2022 Hurricane & Extreme Weather Media Briefing: In preparation for hurricane season, members of the media are invited to join a virtual briefing with four leading experts in climatology, extreme weather events including hurricanes, tropical cyclones and flooding as well as hazard-resistant construction and mitigation on Tuesday, May 31.
May 18, 2022 LSU Engineering Seniors Create Unique Project, an Animatronic Head: Somewhere in the labyrinth of Patrick F. Taylor Hall, there sits a disembodied head that will provide the answers to life’s greatest mysteries, provided he is presented with the proper offering. His glowing eyes change color as he rewards you or disappoints you in a booming voice at the end of your long quest in search of knowledge.
May 17, 2022 LSU Engineering Faculty Awarded Funding by U.S. Defense Department: Two LSU College of Engineering faculty – Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Shuangqing Wei and Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Kevin McPeak – were recently each awarded grants by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory.
May 17, 2022 Caribbean Coral Reefs Need Our Help: Vibrant coral reefs teeming with marine life are diminishing throughout the Caribbean as global temperatures rise. Coral reefs are habitats that support the seafood industry, are barriers for coastal communities from storms, flooding and sea level rise and are attractions for tourism.
May 10, 2022 What Makes Some More Afraid of Change than Others?: Scientists have discovered significant differences in how the brain works in two distinct personality types: those who act fearless and those who seem afraid of new things.
May 4, 2022 Nancy Rabalais Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences: LSU College of the Coast & Environment Professor Nancy Rabalais was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on April 29. She is among the 120 elected members - and the only one from Louisiana - recognized for her distinguished achievements in original research in 2021.
May 2, 2022 Octo-Tiger Awarded Access to the World’s Fastest Supercomputer: Researchers who recently developed “Octo-Tiger,” a breakthrough astrophysics code that simulates the evolution of star systems, have been granted access to the supercomputer Fugaku in Tokyo.
May 2, 2022 LSU Student Receives NSF Grant to Study Water Management and Resiliency in the Netherlands: LSU student Kelli Moran is one of 14 in the nation to receive a National Science Foundation Grant that supports graduate student study in the Netherlands. Moran is a doctoral candidate in the College of the Coast & Environment.
April 28, 2022 LSU Biologist Examines Animal Resilience To Stress: As humans continue to impact the world around us, often resulting in the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, LSU researcher Christine Lattin believes better understanding how some animals thrive while others fail to adapt will allow us to better understand human and animal stress.
April 28, 2022 LSU to Embed Ethics in the Development of New Technologies, Including AI: Deborah Goldgaber, director of the LSU Ethics Institute and associate professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, has received a $103,900 departmental enhancement grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents to begin to reshape LSU’s science, technology, engineering, and math curriculum around ethics and human values.
April 28, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey Shows Polarization Over Abortion Grows While Support for Legal Access Increases Substantially among Democrats: Research from the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs shows polarization over abortion has grown while support for legal access has increased substantially among Democrats.
April 27, 2022 Carol Friedland brings a fresh perspective to LaHouse: Carol Friedland has been appointed as director of the LSU AgCenter LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource Center.
April 27, 2022 LSU Professor John R. White Earns 2022 National Wetlands Award: LSU Professor John R. White will be awarded the 2022 National Wetlands Award in the scientific research category at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. on May 19. White, who serves as associate dean of research for the LSU College of the Coast & Environment, is the fifth member of the college to receive this award
April 27, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey Shows Cost of Service Primary Reason More Lack Broadband at Home: Research from the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs shows three-quarters of Louisiana adults have high-speed internet service in their home. Those without broadband cite availability and cost of service as the reasons why they do not.
April 26, 2022 Two LSU Faculty Awarded Carnegie Fellowships: LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Associate Professor Joshua P. Darr and LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology Professor Andrew Sluyter are the first Carnegie Fellows at LSU.
April 21, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey Shows Most Residents Confident in State, but Parties Disagree Over Restrictions on Voting: Research from the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs shows residents are more confident about ballot access, but political parties tend to disagree over restrictions on voting and the public has a mixed view on its political efficacy. Trust in news organizations is also declining both nationally and locally.
April 19, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey: Louisiana Residents Who Filed Insurance Claims for Damage to Homes in Past Two Years Split on Satisfaction with Handling: Research from the Public Policy Research Lab, or PPRL, at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs shows policy holders who have filed a claim for property damage are evenly split between those who are satisfied and those who are dissatisfied with how claims are handled.
April 18, 2022 Collaboration and Resource Investment Can Positively Affect a Firm’s Logistics Performance: The best word to describe supply chain performance in the past two years is turbulent. Supply chain operators and customers alike continue to dream of days past when goods were available, and bottlenecking was at a minimum. As there is seemingly no end in sight to the current supply chain woes, LSU Department of Marketing Assistant Professor Kris Lindsey Hall, PhD student Ripinka Koli Patil, and co-authors* explored the many factors that impact a firm’s logistics performance. Their recent article, “Collaboration, Feedback, and Performance: Supply Chain Insights from Service-Dominant Logic,” details the findings in the Journal of Business Research.
April 14, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey Shows Most Residents See Danger of Land Loss for Coastal Areas, Future Generations; Fewer Expect to be Affected Themselves: Researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL) at LSU’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs in the Manship School of Mass Communication found most Louisianans believe land loss will cause harm to residents of the state’s coastal areas and Louisiana’s coastal land loss poses a threat to future generations. Additionally, most state residents believe hurricanes are more frequent and stronger than in the past.
April 12, 2022 2022 Louisiana Survey Shows Pessimism Growing About Direction of State: Researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU’s Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs in the Manship School of Mass Communication found state residents are most worried about the economy, infrastructure and education. Confidence in the state government to solve these problems dropped to its lowest point since 2004.
April 11, 2022 National, State Experts to Unpack Environmental Inequities in the U.S. in Season Finale of LSU Reilly Center Racism Series: The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication will host the season four finale of the Racism: Dismantling the System series on Tuesday, April 12, at 3:30 p.m. CT. “The Fight for Environmental Equity” will examine the history of disproportionate environmental impacts and the push for policies that support clean, healthy and thriving communities for all.
April 8, 2022 LSU Boyd Professor Suzanne Marchand Awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship: LSU Boyd Professor of History Suzanne Marchand has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for intellectual and cultural history.
April 7, 2022 LSU Named a Center of Excellence for Wastewater Epidemiology: LSU has been designated as one of 16 new Centers of Excellence for Wastewater Epidemiology by Ceres Nanosciences, a privately held company that makes products to improve life science research and diagnostic testing.
April 7, 2022 LSU Researchers Study What Makes the Invasive, Non-Native Reed Grass Thrive in the Wetlands: In a newly published study, LSU researchers studied the genomic basis of the reed grass, P. australis, to investigate what exactly makes the invasive reed grass subspecies thrive in wetlands, in comparison to its native counterpart.
April 7, 2022 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Honorees 2022: The LSU College of Science’s Hall of Distinction recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves in their endless pursuit of excellence and fervent dedication to scientific leadership. Through their extraordinary achievements, outstanding characters, and commitments to their communities, the college’s honorees have established lasting legacies of excellence in their individual fields.
April 6, 2022 LSU CEE Professor Lin Develops Superwood for Infrastructure: With the development of steel and concrete piles over the years, the use of timber piles in civil infrastructure has steadily declined. While timber piles are a renewable and a low-cost foundation system, they have low stiffness and strength, limiting their applications to lightly-loaded structures. Enter superwood.
April 5, 2022 LSU Hosted High-Level International Business and Economic Development Delegation: LSU recently hosted about 70 business, economic development and government senior officials from Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. to promote long-term, multinational commercial, trade and investment partnerships in the region.
April 1, 2022 How a Textual Analysis Tool Can Help Accounting Researchers Analyze Participants' Written Responses: LSU Department of Accounting Assistant Professor Sanaz Aghazadeh and collaborators have shown how word analysis software can reveal sentiment, including client deception, in accounting and auditing.
March 31, 2022 LSU Engineering Faculty Design Sensor to Improve Vision of Underwater Robots: Underwater exploration is becoming more common these days thanks to subaqueous vehicles that have capabilities to photograph and collect data at deeper depths and for longer periods of time.
March 30, 2022 LSU Alumna, Former Reveille Opinion Editor Wins Hearst Journalism Award in Explanatory Reporting Competition: Rachel Mipro is among the top five winners of the Explanatory Reporting Competition of the 2021-2022 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
March 30, 2022 LSU Shreveport Boosts Biotech Innovation for Health in Northwest Louisiana: By adding the Human Performance Lab, LSU Shreveport, or LSUS, expands its role as a research hub and key service provider for the surrounding community, sparking innovation and new ventures.
March 29, 2022 National Institutes of Health Funds LSU Chemistry Professor’s Research Aimed at Developing a New Class of Molecules for Treating Biofilm Infections: LSU Professor and William A. Pryor Chair in Chemistry Mario Rivera recently received a five-year $3.69 million National Institutes of Health, or NIH, R01 grant to develop a new strategy to kill biofilm-embedded cells and combat biofilm infections.
March 28, 2022 LSU PBRC Researchers Leverage Biomedical Science and Technology to Better Feed, Train, Support U.S. Soldiers—and Everyone: Over the past 30 years, Pennington Biomedical scientists have fundamentally changed how American soldiers eat. As the number-one provider of nutrition science for the U.S. Department of Defense, PBRC researchers are helping to secure the nation by making sure soldiers get the food and drink they need to optimize their performance and protect against injury.
March 25, 2022 Money Managers Should Consider Including Option Momentum Strategy to Deliver More Outperformance: A new study led by LSU Department of Finance Associate Professor Haitao Mo and PhD student Mehdi Khorram analyzed momentum strategy in the stock options market.
March 24, 2022 Are Home Buyers and Sellers Rational? Do They Exhibit Behavioral Biases?: The sale or purchase of a home is the largest financial transaction for most households and can have a significant impact on household wealth. However, as LSU Department of Finance Assistant Professor Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara shows, when it comes to selling their homes, sellers exhibit behavioral biases and do not behave in a way that would maximize their wealth.
March 23, 2022 Are People More Likely to Reduce Their Calorie Intake at Restaurants when Menus include Calorie Labels?: LSU researchers show that providing information on restaurant menus about how many calories are in food changes how people order.
March 21, 2022 Science Publishes New LSU Research Showing Urbanization Drives Global Plant Evolution: Scientists have found the clearest evidence yet that humans in general, and cities specifically, are a dominant force driving the evolution of life globally.
March 21, 2022 LSU's Mingxuan Sun Working to Address Discrimination in AI/ML Systems: Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies play an increasing role in our society today, including in high-stakes decision-making systems like lending decisions, employment screenings, and criminal justice sentencing.
March 21, 2022 Find Parking on LSU's Campus with ParkZen App: Manos Chatzopoulos, assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy, has developed a free smartphone app to assist drivers in locating available parking on campus.
March 16, 2022 Announcing the Distinguished Research Masters and Distinguished Dissertation Award Recipients: LSU Office of Research & Economic Development honors the exceptional research and scholarship of two LSU faculty as Distinguished Research Masters each year.
March 16, 2022 LSU Announces Strategy and Commitment to Become Leader in Cybersecurity, Military Studies: LSU's eight campuses join forces with private industry, federal and state law enforcement, military, and other partners to accelerate cybersecurity and defense studies at LSU, strengthen and grow its ROTC program, develop a new generation of talent and technology, build a Cyber-Military Corridor on campus, and position LSU as a leading cyber and defense institution for state- and nation-wide impact.
March 16, 2022 LSU to Support Tri-State Hydrogen Hub: The Governors of Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas released a joint announcement that the three states have entered into a bipartisan partnership "to establish a regional hub for development, production and use of clean hydrogen as fuel and manufacturing feedstock." Key to this relationship is the collaboration of the states' top research universities.
March 14, 2022 LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Gilbert Designs 'Soft' Robot for NASA: Hard, cold metal is usually what comes to mind when one imagines a robot. While these rigid automatons have their advantages, researchers are now exploring “soft” or continuum robots that can provide flexibility and compliance where traditional robots cannot. One such researcher is LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hunter Gilbert.
March 10, 2022 LSU Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award: Matt Hiatt, assistant professor in the LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, has received a five-year NSF CAREER award for his coastal hydrological research.
March 9, 2022 LSU Computer Science Professor Taking a ‘Hands-On’ Approach to Smartphone Security: As smartphones have grown more sophisticated over the years, so too have their accompanying security measures. Simple passwords have been replaced by thumbprints and facial recognition. However, those methods do not solve the issue of notification privacy.
March 8, 2022 Louisiana Higher Education Institutions to Document, Preserve Women’s Experiences in State Politics: The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication is spearheading an oral history initiative to preserve the legacies of Louisiana’s female political leaders in partnership with universities across the state.
March 7, 2022 How Having Our Own High-Resolution Avatar Could Transform Healthcare—in Cancer Clinics and in Space: Students in the LSU SpaRTAN medical physics lab are using technology to simulate biology and biological processes, such as a person’s whole-body response to radiation based on the break-down of individual cells. And the result is beautiful.
March 4, 2022 Event Horizons are Tunable Factories of Quantum Entanglement: LSU physicists’ research findings open a promising avenue for confirming the quantum origin of the Hawking radiation.
March 2, 2022 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.
February 24, 2022 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.
February 24, 2022 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.
February 23, 2022 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.
February 22, 2022 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.
February 22, 2022 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.
February 21, 2022 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.
February 18, 2022 Racism Experienced by BIPOC Consumers, Employees to be Unpacked in Next Episode of LSU Reilly Center’s Racism Series: The next installment of LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs’ Racism: Dismantling the System series, “Is the Customer Always Right? Discrimination Experienced by BIPOC Consumers,” will take place Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 3:30 p.m. CT. The episode will give insight on how companies handle racism that their consumers and employees experience.
February 17, 2022 LSU Home of Most Important Private Collection of African American Poetry: The LSU Libraries Special Collections will house the over 800 items previously owned by book collector and dealer Wyatt Houston Day.
February 17, 2022 ECE Professor Mehraeen Explores Smart Grid Improvements: Just one year ago this month, the southern U.S. suffered a hard freeze, leaving millions of people in Texas without power while also causing flooding to homes from busted pipes. As a result, 246 people died.
February 16, 2022 Beyond Biodegradable Mardi Gras Beads: LSU biologist Naohiro Kato develops solutions to reduce plastic in the environment.
February 14, 2022 New Director Joins LSU Innovation & Technology Commercialization: The LSU Office of Innovation & Technology Commercialization has welcomed a new director, Alex Valiaev.
February 9, 2022 LSU Experts Available to Speak on Mardi Gras History and Traditions: LSU faculty experts are available for media interviews about the Mardi Gras history and traditions.
February 7, 2022 LSU ME Professor, Students Design Underwater Robots to Study Shipwrecks: One might be surprised to learn there have been thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes over the last couple centuries, the majority of which remain undiscovered. LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Corina Barbalata is working to design motion-planning algorithms for underwater robots to gather data from these shipwrecks.
February 7, 2022 Spray-on Skin Lowers Louisiana Mortality Rates from Burns: Dr. Jeffrey Carter, associate professor of surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has spent over a decade developing a new technology for burn and wound care, known as spray-on skin. He is available for media interviews during National Burn Awareness Week.
February 4, 2022 LSU Chemist and Collaborator Discover a Natural-based Therapy to Treat an Aggressive form of Breast Cancer: An LSU chemist and her research team have discovered a promising new treatment for triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC, an aggressive form of breast cancer with limited treatment options.
February 1, 2022 LSU Professor Awarded Highest Honor by American Association of Geographers: LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology Professor Emeritus Craig Colten is among 11 geographers nationwide bestowed the highest honor by the American Association of Geographers.
January 31, 2022 LSU CEE Professor Bivins Studying Wastewater on International Flights: With the COVID-19 Omicron variant spreading like wildfire, testing has never been more important. This is why LSU Civil & Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Aaron Bivins is not only researching pathogen detection in water at LSU but also joining forces with researchers worldwide, namely Australia, to study wastewater on international flights.
January 26, 2022 “Exercise-in-a-pill” Could Get Louisiana into Shape: Researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center are mapping the effects of exercise to be able to deliver many of its benefits to those who can’t, or struggle to, work out. The researchers have already shown how something they call “exercise-in-a-pill” could help protect people against the negative health consequences of eating too much sugar and fat.
January 26, 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Two LSU Faculty: Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy and Samuel J. Bentley are among those to receive this distinct honor within the scientific community this year.
January 21, 2022 Our Next Renewable Energy Source Could Be an Artificial Leaf: LSU researchers are exploring new ways to use the oldest energy source on our planet—sunlight—to create truly green energy on demand.
January 18, 2022 LSU Students Conduct Research and Design for New Lunar-based Telescope: LSU astronomers are leading a collaborative scientific observing program that will provide new images and information from the far side of the moon.
January 13, 2022 LSU Computer Science Professor Uses AI/ML to Predict Coastal Flooding : More than half of the U.S. population lives in coastal watershed parishes or counties that generate 58 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. These coastal communities and infrastructure are especially vulnerable to wind and flooding due to tropical storms, hurricanes, and heavy rainfall.
January 12, 2022 Under a Moon Spell: Shark Attacks Related to Lunar Phases: New research from LSU and the University of Florida suggests that more shark attacks occur during fuller phases of the moon.
January 12, 2022 Discovery of Extreme Superflares On Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph: LSU Astronomer Professor Brad Schaefer and colleagues discovered that the Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph star has extreme superflares with the bursts more frequent and 100,000 times more powerful than any other known superflare star, in terms of energy per year.
December 23, 2021 40 Million-Year-Old Fossil Shark Named in Honor of LSU Collection Manager Suyin Ting: LSU Museum of Natural Science's Vertebrate Paleontology, or VP, Collections Manager Suyin Ting, was recently honored by having a 40-million-year-old extinct shark species named after her.
