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December 2023
- Monday, 12/04/2023
- 2013 PhD Alumna Receives FIAP Career Lectureship Award
November 2023
- Thursday, 11/16/2023
- CALET Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
October 2023
- Wednesday, 10/25/2023
- NASA's Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger
- Monday, 10/09/2023
- Meet the astrophysicist who is working to make parking easier
- Monday, 10/02/2023
- Physics & Astronomy Welcomes New Faculty Members
September 2023
- Tuesday, 09/26/2023
- Nathaniel Wrobel - Student Spotlight
- Wednesday, 09/13/2023
- Kenneth J. Schafer Honored as Boyd Professor, LSU’s Highest Professorial Ranking
May 2023
- Friday, 05/26/2023
- Scientists Discover Light Conversion in Free Space
- Monday, 05/15/2023
- 2022 - 2023 Department of Physics & Astronomy Annual Awards
April 2023
- Monday, 04/17/2023
- Medical Physics Graduate Student Sydney Carr Shares her Research Experience
- Friday, 04/14/2023
- LSU Physics Professor Receives Esteemed NSF CAREER Award
- Thursday, 04/13/2023
- E. Ward Plummer 2023 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Honoree
- Monday, 04/10/2023
- LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
March 2023
- Tuesday, 03/21/2023
- LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
- Wednesday, 03/08/2023
- Chatzopoulos Named a 2022 LSU Emerging Scholar in STEM Rainmaker
February 2023
- Monday, 02/06/2023
- LSU Professor Aims to Improve Radiation Therapy to Save Lives
November 2022
- Wednesday, 11/02/2022
- New MicroBooNE analysis takes a closer look at the sterile neutrino
October 2022
- Wednesday, 10/26/2022
- LSU Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force
August 2022
- Monday, 08/29/2022
- LSU Boyd Professor's Legacy Elevates Research and Scholarship
- Thursday, 08/25/2022
- LSU Physics Professor Launches New AI Space Start-up
July 2022
- Tuesday, 07/19/2022
- LSU Welcomes James A. Sauls as Hearne Research Chair in Theoretical Physics
- Thursday, 07/14/2022
- LSU Astrophysicists Break Down the Impact of Newly Released NASA Images
May 2022
- Friday, 05/06/2022
- 2021 - 2022 Department of Physics & Astronomy Annual Awards
- Monday, 05/02/2022
- Octo-Tiger Awarded Access to the World's Fastest Supercomputer
April 2022
- Thursday, 04/14/2022
- Kenneth R. Hogstrom 2022 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Honoree
March 2022
- Tuesday, 03/29/2022
- LSU Undergraduate Leaves His Mark on the Moon
- Tuesday, 03/29/2022
- New App Uses Crowdsourcing to Share Open Parking Spots in Real Time
- Friday, 03/18/2022
- Thomas Corbitt Named a 2022 LSU Rainmaker
- Friday, 03/18/2022
- New parking app wins investment prize at Baton Rouge pitch competition
- Thursday, 03/10/2022
- American Institute of Physics Interviews Gabriela Gonzalez
- Thursday, 03/10/2022
- Having our own medical avatar could transform cancer care and space travel
- Thursday, 03/10/2022
- "Beam Me Up!" Talking Quantum Communication with Michelle Lollie
- Friday, 03/04/2022
- Event horizons are tunable factories of quantum entanglement
February 2022
- Friday, 02/18/2022
- Lila Ton Talks Scholarship & Quantum Optics Research
January 2022
- Tuesday, 01/25/2022
- LSU Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Astronomer Arlo U. Landolt
- Friday, 01/21/2022
- Undergrad Sara Sayer Reveals Research Experience
- Wednesday, 01/19/2022
- LSU Students Conduct Research and Design for First Lunar-based Telescope
- Wednesday, 01/12/2022
- Discovery of Extreme Superflares On Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph
December 2021
- Monday, 12/13/2021
- Jeanne Garriz Shares LaSPACE Experience
November 2021
- Monday, 11/22/2021
- Space is Next for Senior Bri Robertson
- Monday, 11/22/2021
- GWTC-3 Catalog and O3b Bulk Strain Data
- Tuesday, 11/16/2021
- Meet SOARS Scholar Nathaniel Wrobel
October 2021
- Friday, 10/22/2021
- Scaling up quantum metrology for higher multiphoton resolution