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LSU Seeks Volunteers for Love the Boot Week Litter Cleanup
As a Keep Louisiana Beautiful Affiliate, LSU will be participating in a litter cleanup event in celebration of Love the Boot Week. Love the Boot Week is Louisiana's largest cleanup and beautification event, hosted by Keep Louisiana Beautiful and held in conjunction with Earth Day activities across the planet.
LSU Holding Spring Greening Day April 25
Spring Greening Day is an annual half-day service project to beautify and green the LSU campus. On April 25, 2024, from 11 am - 2 pm we will be planting natives and perennials in front of the Greek Amphitheater. This event is made possible by our partnership with Keep Louisiana Beautiful, Auxiliary Services, RCI, and Toro.
LSU Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award, Research Addresses Privacy Concerns in Videoconferencing
Since the pandemic, our primary means of interacting have evolved to include video conferencing applications, which are broadly used to connect geographically distant people for work, school, and even socially. During these interactions, it’s not uncommon for a user to turn off his or her microphone and/or camera out of concern for privacy. However, microphones and cameras can still leak other kinds of information beyond what is seen and heard through “micro signals,” which are too tiny for humans to recognize but detectable by machines.
LSU Tigers Make a $2.4 Million Difference Yearly Through Volunteerism, Service Events
Geaux Big Baton Rouge — a fun, inclusive, and collaborative celebration of service — is LSU's largest single day of student contributions to the Greater Baton Rouge community. But our Tigers are offering a helping hand all year long.
Creative Lead of Microsoft's Global Search and AI Team to Speak at LSU's AI-Focused Symposium
The LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs’ 2024 John Breaux Symposium, “AI in Mass Communication,” will feature live demos from AI experts and explore its use in communication industries, along with the accompanying ethical considerations.
LSU Syringe Device Improves Stem Cell Delivery to Patient
LSU researchers' new invention - a syringe that can temporarily store adult stem cells so that they can be delivered and given to the patient from the same device - is the booster physicians and veterinarians need to treat tendon injuries more effectively.
LSU Reilly Center Seeking Participants Interested in Creating Change to Apply for Community Collaborative Cohort
The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication is recruiting its fourth cohort for “The Community Collaborative: By the Community, For the Community,” a statewide capacity-building project designed to enhance citizens’ ability to engage civically.
LSU Names Courtney Phillips Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Health Officer
LSU has named Courtney Phillips, former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, to the position of Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Health Officer. In this role, Phillips will work closely with university leadership across the LSU system as well as with healthcare partners to maximize the system's healthcare-related financial well-being, enhance operational efficiency, develop new revenue streams and leverage related strengths.
LSU, Delaware and Johns Hopkins Researchers Examine the Mechanics of the Human Brain
Faculty from LSU, the University of Delaware, and Johns Hopkins University are collaborating on a project that may help us better understand how large and rapid mechanical forces deform the brain during events such as falls and car crashes. Having this understanding is critical to developing computer models for predicting brain injury, as well as designing safer personal protective equipment and brain injury management and prevention strategies.
LSU Kicks Off Nationwide Launch of Cactus Jack Collegiate Merchandise
LSU was the first of 28 universities across the nation to unveil a limited-edition "Jack Goes Back to College" product line, featuring LSU gear, at a special event at midnight on April 4 at the LSU Barnes & Noble Bookstore on campus. The event coincided with the national launch of the product line.
LSU's Pipeline Leak Detection Technology Could Save Energy Companies Millions
Researchers use Fiber Bragg Grating Advanced Signal Processing
LSU Faculty Experts Available to Discuss Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Two LSU engineering professors and one LSU law professor are available to give insight on the tragic bridge collapse in Baltimore.
LSU Eunice Announces $3.25 Million in Federal Funding for STEAM Center
LSU Eunice is set to receive $3.25 million in federal funding earmarked for the upcoming STEAM Innovation Center on campus, a renovation and reimagining of LSUE’s current Science Building, the first building erected on the campus in 1967.
Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences Faculty Receive Largest NSF PFI Grant Ever Awarded to LSU
Nootkatone Studies Could Lead to Prevention of Lyme Disease. LSU Chemical Engineering (ChE) Professor Kerry Dooley, LSU ChE Department Chair and Professor Mike Benton, and LSU Department of Biological Sciences (Biol. Sci.) Professor Roger Laine will continue their work on a project that could bring affordable and effective insect repellent to the masses, possibly decreasing the number of Lyme disease, malaria, and West Nile virus cases around the world.
Spring 2024 Rucks Fellows Announced
The Rucks Department of Management at the E. J. Ourso College of Business acknowledges outstanding students as Rucks Fellows. These students are chosen by the faculty and represent the highest level of academic achievement among senior management majors in any of the department's concentrations. To be eligible, the student must be among the top graduating seniors in the management curriculum based on their grade-point average; honorees are announced in the fall and spring semesters.