Initiatives in Research
Innovating the ways in which we live, learn, and see the world
Providing
hands-on experience to achieve real-world results
- The Chancellor's Future Leaders in Research supports the extraordinary efforts of more than 40 undergraduate students who are also Chancellor's Alumni Scholars, Top 100 Scholars, or National Merit awardees.
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Undergraduate Summer Research Program at LSU allows students pursuing a degree in the life sciences to do vital research while getting credit hours at such centers as the LSU Museum of Natural Science and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Building upon program strengths to meet community and state needs
LSU has identified seven programs as Foundations of Excellence, based on their ability to advance the University to levels that will command national and international attention, heightening the institution's reputation as a rising public research university. Foundations of Excellence departments are biological sciences, chemistry, English, mass communication, mathematics, music and physics.
Attracting top-notch scholarship and research
LSU will continue to bring world-renowned scholars to speak at LSU through
lecture programs such as:
LSU will also build on its success in obtaining awards from federal agencies. The National Science Foundation, for example, increased its funding by 58% percent last year, an impressive acknowledgment of LSU's significant contributions to research. Department of Justice funding improved by 59% in same time frame.
We will also continue our efforts to obtain funding for endowed professorships and departmental chairs. Nearly 40 endowed chairs and more than 300 professorships have been established.
