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LSU Joins The Climate Heritage Network

LSU Joins The Climate Heritage Network

LSU's School of Library & Information Science is a new member of the Climate Heritage Network -- a mutual support group of organizations dedicated to advancing the role of heritage as an agent for change.

LSU Foundation Welcomes Five Alumni to Board of Directors

LSU Foundation Welcomes Five Alumni to Board of Directors

The LSU Foundation Board of Directors has named LSU alumni Tom Adamek of Baton Rouge, La.; Antonio J. Lucio of San Francisco, Calif.; Anil Punyapu of Los Angeles, Calif.; Robert K. "Bobby" Reeves of Houston, Texas; and Mark S. Sutton of Collierville, Tenn., to four-year terms as directors.

SEC Student Recruitment Initiative

LSU to Lead First SEC Student Recruitment Initiative in Africa

LSU will be leading a student mobility initiative in Africa with eight other Southeastern Conference universities. This initiative is the first of its kind to be launched in the United States and will primarily focus on recruitment in Ghana and Senegal.

How Socioeconomic Status Can Affect the Productivity of Remote Workers

How Socioeconomic Status Can Affect the Productivity of Remote Workers

Companies’ “work from home” policies may be driving economic inequality. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 70 percent of full-time office workers left their offices behind to work from home.

Accounting Professors Partner with Current and Former Ph.D. Students on Innovative Research

Accounting Professors Partner with Current and Former Ph.D. Students on Innovative Research

LSU Department of Accounting Assistant Professors Stephanie Walton and William Buslepp recently partnered with current and former Ph.D. students to publish articles in two scholarly journals.

LSU Associate Professor of Creative Writing & Screen Arts Zack Godshall

Award-Winning Louisiana Filmmaker, LSU Alumnus and Associate Professor Zack Godshall to Screen New Documentary Feature

“The Laughing Man,” a feature documentary by LSU Associate Professor of Creative Writing & Screen Arts Zack Godshall, will play at the Manship Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

LSU language scientists

Closing the Health Disparities Gap for Children with Developmental Language Disorders

National Institutes of Health awards LSU speech-language pathologists $2.8M for groundbreaking research to address childhood health disparities.

LSU Reilly Center to Examine Plantations’ Historical Portrayal of Slavery, Solutions to Shift the Narrative

LSU Reilly Center to Examine Plantations’ Historical Portrayal of Slavery, Solutions to Shift the Narrative

The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication will host the season five opener of Racism: Dismantling the System, “Narrative Shifting: Centering the Humanity of the Enslaved on Plantations” on Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. CT. The discussion will explore how plantations have historically presented the story of slavery and solutions to change these distorted narratives.

I-Corps

LSU to Lead Innovation in Louisiana for New Regional Southwest Hub

LSU is one of the lead organizations for a new, National Science Foundation-funded regional hub that will help propel more research out of the lab and into the real world.

LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hunter Gilbert

LSU ME Professor Designs Tentacle-Like Robot With CISIA Funding

LSU’s Center for Innovations in Structural Integrity Assurance is funding a $50,000 research project spearheaded by LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hunter Gilbert that will benefit local industries.