Community
By partnering with Louisiana communities, LSU works to improve lives across the state.
City of Shreveport Partners with LSUS to Improve Safety, Services Using AI
The City of Shreveport works with LSUS to develop AI-driven technology more quickly and affordably to improve city services, safety.
LSU Health New Orleans, PBRC Use AI to Unlock a Person’s Ideal Diet
LSU Health New Orleans and LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center have partnered to leverage new technologies, including artificial intelligence, or AI, in the fight against diet-related disease and health disparities in Louisiana through the Nutrition for Precision Health study.
LSU Health New Orleans Supports Musicians and Artists
Meet Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Queen of the Guardians of the Flame Maroon Society and breast cancer survivor.
“I Fight Harder for This Place Because It Is So Unique”
Meet Traci Birch, assistant professor of architecture and managing director of the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, who works on large, interdisciplinary projects to help Louisiana communities protect themselves from flooding and environmental disasters.
“I Want To Be a Fearless, Relentless, and Unapologetic Advocate for Agriculture”
Meet LSU student William Gaspard Jr.
LSU Shreveport Sparks Innovation at Barksdale Air Force Base and Beyond
Through sustained collaboration with STRIKEWERX, the innovation hub of the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, LSU Shreveport’s Cyber Collaboratory has become a key provider of expertise and innovative solutions for nearby Barksdale Air Force Base and the nation’s air defense.
Caring in the Extreme: Personalized Care for Northwest Louisiana
LSU Health Shreveport improves care through biomechanical research.
LSU PBRC Whole-health App Supports Soldiers—and Everyone
By leveraging technology, LSU PBRC researchers are putting science in the hands of soldiers and their families—and everyone.
LSUS Human Performance Lab Boosts Biotech Innovation in Northwest Louisiana
On what used to be six racquetball courts, there are now three top-notch research labs dedicated to the study of human movement at LSU Shreveport (LSUS)—an exercise science lab, a motion analysis lab, and a motor behavior lab—collectively known as the Human Performance Lab.
LSU Helps Homeowners Tackle the True Cost of Flooding
LSU scholars in construction management, oceanography and coastal sciences, sociology, and psychology are working to gather data on the economic, equity, and emotional aspects of living in an increasingly flood-prone place, and provide homeowners with better guidance.
Sustainability through Diversity: Global Non-Profit Partners with LSU Manship
When the Louisiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization with more than one million members and the largest such non-profit in the U.S., realized they needed more diverse messaging—and messengers—to reach more people in local communities, they turned to the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication.
Lingering Pandemic + Another Hurricane? LSU Helps Coastal Communities Prepare
In the very first study to look at impacts of the ongoing pandemic on hurricane preparedness and resilience in Louisiana, researchers at LSU Health New Orleans partnered with more than two dozen community leaders to help validate facts on the ground and turn observations into actionable data.
Tangipahoa’s Big Idea: LSU Helps Flood-Prone Louisiana Parish Rise to Challenges
In the wake of the 2016 floods, which devastated not just Tangipahoa Parish but turned 21 south Louisiana parishes into federal disaster areas, faculty and students in the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and LSU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering began collaborating with local government and communities to set Tangipahoa Parish on a path toward resilience.
LSU’s Coastal Roots Program Helps 26,000 School Kids Fight Louisiana Land Loss
Investing in education and restoration efforts with elementary, middle, and high school youth.
More than 100 LSU Online Programs Help Job Seekers and Employers Adapt to Change
Social worker Jo Anna Fisher’s career did not skip a beat, despite the pandemic and loss of a family member. LSU now offers more than 100 programs online.