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September 2021
- Friday, 09/24/2021
- LSU Research Team Awarded $1.4 Million Equipment Grant from NSF
- Wednesday, 09/15/2021
- Astrophysics PhD Candidate Courtney Crawford
- Wednesday, 09/08/2021
- Bella Bowman Foundation Teams Up with LSU on Pediatric Cancer Research
August 2021
- Friday, 08/27/2021
- Nanoscale Systems for Generating Various Forms of Light
June 2021
- Wednesday, 06/30/2021
- LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes with Neutron Stars
- Friday, 06/18/2021
- David Young Explains the Physics of Simone Biles' Signature Gymnastics Moves
- Tuesday, 06/01/2021
- LSU graduate’s groundbreaking research heading to the moon
May 2021
- Thursday, 05/20/2021
- Rongying Jin named LSU Senior Scholar Rainmaker
- Thursday, 05/13/2021
- Spring 2021 Graduates
- Thursday, 05/13/2021
- Keilah Davis Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Tuesday, 05/11/2021
- Statewide Computer Science Program Competes in National Video Competition
- Thursday, 05/06/2021
- LSU Goes to the Moon
April 2021
- Friday, 04/23/2021
- Octo-Tiger Rapidly Models Stellar Collisions
- Friday, 04/23/2021
- 2020-2021 LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Annual Awards
March 2021
- Friday, 03/26/2021
- Where is Cancer Research Headed Next?
- Monday, 03/15/2021
- Smart Quantum Technologies for Secure Communication
- Thursday, 03/04/2021
- QuBits: Ten Things You Should Know About Quantum Computing
- Wednesday, 03/03/2021
- Mark Wilde Chosen as APS Physical Review Journal Outstanding Referee
February 2021
- Thursday, 02/25/2021
- LSU alumnus engineers landing of NASA Perseverance Rover on Mars
- Thursday, 02/18/2021
- LSU Medical Physicist Receives Prestigious Shalek Award
- Thursday, 02/11/2021
- SpaceX Invites LSU Students to Present Radiation Research Effects on Astronauts
- Wednesday, 02/10/2021
- Designing the Best Possible Solar Cell, by MacGyvering a Bit of Quantum Supremacy
January 2021
- Friday, 01/29/2021
- Unraveling the quantum structure of spacetime with gravitational waves
- Friday, 01/15/2021
- LSU Astronomer and NASA Missions Unmask Cosmic Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies
- Thursday, 01/14/2021
- Unbinding the Stellar Envelope in Grazing Envelope Evolution
- Friday, 01/08/2021
- Joyoni Dey Awarded U.S. Patent to Improve Detection of Breast Cancer
December 2020
- Wednesday, 12/09/2020
- Kekejian has been awarded 2020 LSU Alumni Association International Student Scholarship
November 2020
- Monday, 11/16/2020
- Tracking COVID-19 Trends in Hard-Hit States
- Tuesday, 11/10/2020
- Vicari's Journey to Continue Family Legacy in Medical Physics
- Wednesday, 11/04/2020
- LSU Graduate Student will Perform Thesis Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 2020
- Thursday, 10/29/2020
- LIGO and Virgo announce new detections in updated gravitational-wave catalog
- Friday, 10/23/2020
- NASA Supports LSU Physicist's Work to Advance Human Space Exploration
- Wednesday, 10/07/2020
- Ana Dieguez Awarded Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
September 2020
- Friday, 09/11/2020
- Global Physicist Gabriela González Elected as APS General Councilor
August 2020
- Friday, 08/21/2020
- Unveiling 'Island Worlds' with NASA's Roman Space Telescope
July 2020
- Thursday, 07/30/2020
- LSU Physics Students Receive Louisiana Space Grant Research Awards
- Wednesday, 07/29/2020
- Healing an Achilles’ Heel of Quantum Entanglement
- Friday, 07/24/2020
- LSU Mourns the Passing of Internationally Renowned Professor E. Ward Plummer
June 2020
- Thursday, 06/25/2020
- LSU Astrophysicist Awarded DOE Early Career Research Grant
- Thursday, 06/18/2020
- LSU Physics PhD Candidate Presented Prominent DoD SMART Scholarship