Research News
Louisiana Enables Cyber Protection for Higher Ed in the State Through LSU
With $7.5 million in support from the state legislature, higher education in Louisiana can now gain cyber protection—at no additional cost to the institution—through an industry-leading model developed at LSU.
Strategic Investment in Cybersecurity Education Drives Record Enrollment at LSU
Enrollment in LSU’s computer science program has tripled over the last decade, largely driven by growing student interest in cybersecurity, part of the defense priority of LSU’s Scholarship First Agenda.
Her Research Holds Water: Meet Art + Design Senior Kayla Dearman
LSU senior, digital art major and stop motion animation aficionado Kayla Dearman has come up with a new technique to emulate water for stop motion animation, using non-toxic and biodegradable hydrogels.
LSU Ranks Among Top 75 Universities in the Nation Granted U.S. Utility Patents
Highest Ranking in LSU History Situates LSU as a leader among the more than 2,600 undergraduate degree granting universities in the nation
LSU Researchers Publish Geolocation Dataset of all U.S. Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
Cultural heritage institutions, including galleries, libraries, archives and museums, or GLAMs, are being impacted by climate change. About 56 percent of these institutions reported increased damage to collections due to water or moisture between 2017-2019. Of that damage, about 10 percent was the result of natural disasters. As storm season ramps up in the south, LSU researchers reached a significant milestone in a research project aimed at assisting our nation's historical/natural/scientific/cultural collections remain safe and intact.
LSU Eclipses $400-Million Milestone in Research Activity
Powered by its Scholarship First Agenda, which drives solutions-focused research investment in agriculture, biomedicine, coast, defense and energy, LSU reports a record $428 million in total research activity in just one year with an estimated $1.2 billion in economic impact on Louisiana.
LSU's Tiger Den Data Storage System to Provide 'Ease of Life'
LSU researchers have been awarded $500K by the National Science Foundation to build a shared data storage system to elevate the research experience not just at LSU, but at universities across Louisiana.
Rural Resiliency: LSU Researchers to Help Communities Adapt to Climate Change
Faculty in the Department of Environmental Sciences, or DES, hope to begin remedying this situation with a new, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. It is part of a larger $6 million multi-institutional effort intended to help rural areas adapt to climate change.
LSU Selects Brad Ives to Lead LSU Institute for Energy Innovation
Ives will join LSU in October from North Carolina’s Catawba College, which became the first certified carbon-neutral college in the Southeast U.S. under his leadership.
LSU Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Address Optimization in Infrastructure Systems
A team of LSU researchers from electrical and computer engineering and physics was recently awarded nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project to develop quantum computing-inspired algorithms that will address optimization problems appearing in various critical infrastructure systems, including power systems.
LSU Names Professor Golden Richard Interim Director of the LSU Cyber Center
Richard spearheaded LSU's successful pursuit of NSA designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations in 2022. The LSU Cyber Center will support projects and programs across disciplines to help secure people and infrastructure on the new frontier of state and national defense, in alignment with LSU's Scholarship First Agenda.
Dept. of Energy Funds $4.9 Million LSU-led Direct Air Capture Hub Feasibility Study
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an LSU-led consortium a $4.9 million project to support the first phase of the Pelican Gulf Coast Carbon Removal project. The Pelican Consortium, which includes Shell and the University of Houston, will evaluate the feasibility of building a direct air capture (DAC) hub in Louisiana. DAC technologies capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere. The captured CO2 can then be used to manufacture products or be permanently stored in deep geological formations. As envisioned, the hub would enable accelerated and replicable carbon removal and permanent storage in ways that protect and generate jobs in the state.
LSU Names Innovation & Technology Commercialization Director
The LSU Office of Innovation & Technology Commercialization has named its new director, technology licensing and commercialization veteran Spencer Rogers.
DARPA Taps LSU to Solve Cybersecurity Challenges in Virtual and Augmented Reality
LSU researchers Ibrahim "Abe" Baggili and Andrew Webb have received $600K from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to study safety aspects of virtual and augmented reality applications for U.S. military missions and training.
Ensuring Student Success for All
LSU alumna Morgan Decuir is a first-generation college graduate. She leads STEM education for kindergarten through fourth grade at Caneview K-8 in Port Allen and recently won the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, bringing more STEM learning opportunities to her community and to Louisiana students.