"It is important for our family to carry on my grandfather's values of integrity, commitment, and stewardship," said Jonathan E. Martin. "The Martin family is honored to support both Louisiana and LSU through this contribution."

New President and Chancellor F. King Alexander started at LSU on Monday, June 24, and during that time, he's attended a number of activities to get him acclimated to the university.

Imagine building a bike conversion attachment for pediatric wheelchairs or a synthetic anterior cruciate ligament; picture a net zero residential HVAC system in South Louisiana or a high-pressure chamber for simulation of a Venus landing environment.

Coastal Louisiana, with its distinctive wildlife, rich wetland ecosystems and rapidly changing landscapes, turns out to be a delicate muse for artists of all kinds.

A group of four senior biological engineering students decided to tackle an unlikely venture as their senior design project – designing and building a mobile version of LSU AgCenter's LaHouse.

"And this is only the beginning," wrote Laura Lindsay in her June 2005 director's address for the LSU Museum of Art's premier newsletter, "Art Talk." Beginnings may be an odd approach to take when talking about Lindsay, as she will be retiring in June from LSU after nearly 35 years of service to the University.

After a stellar career in higher education that spans more than 35 years, William "Bill" Jenkins is calling it a career … for the second time.

In the three years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster leaked an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers around the globe have worked to understand the impact the spill has had and will have on the Gulf.

LSU's Office of Research & Economic Development, with the support of Campus Federal Credit Union, recently honored the recipients of the annual Rainmaker Awards for Research and Creative Activity.

For years, LSU students have been competing on the national stage for prestigious awards and scholarships, and this year is no exception. With two Truman Scholars, two Goldwater Scholars, an Udall Scholar, and numerous other accolades, LSU students are truly showing the nation what it means to "Live Gold."

LSU School of Education alumnus Paolo "J.P." Abon excels around the globe as a Peace Corps member in Thailand. Abon completed his master's degree in the K-12 educational leadership program in 2010 and is currently completing his second year in the corps.

LSU's incoming President F. King Alexander was invited to the White House two years ago to meet with President Obama to provide counsel on higher education policy.

Cokie Roberts, a political commentator for ABC News and senior news analyst for National Public Radio, delivered the commencement address and 3,735 students received degrees at LSU’s 280th commencement exercises on Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17.

Twelve outstanding LSU seniors were recently recognized as the Tiger Twelve Class of 2013. The award recognizes current, full-time students, who are seniors, have a cumulative GPA of at least a 2.5, and have best demonstrated the seven basic principles outlined in LSU’s Commitment to Community, a statement of the mutually agreed upon expectations for each LSU community member established by students, faculty and staff in 1995.

In today's job market, the number of non-traditional students looking for an advanced degree to attain higher paying jobs has increased dramatically. Baton Rouge Community College and LSU's College of Engineering, through a $2.25 million five-year National Science Foundation, or NSF, grant, have developed a solution to address the need for more engineers in the workforce and an increased student interest in an obtaining engineering degree.

This semester, 13 students embarked on the French New Wave Project, a program hosted by LSU Academic Programs Abroad to engross students in the understanding and application of the French New Wave film movement that swept Paris during the early '60s. This program was the brainchild of two associate professors, Trish Suchy and Kevin Bongiorni, in the communication studies and French departments, respectively.

"Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi," which is an African proverb that is translated from the Akan language of Ghana to, "it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." It is this spirit of "sankofa" that joins the past with the present in the ongoing quest for knowledge.

It's not everyday that someone other than an astronaut or planetary scientist can observe the "footprints of astronauts" on the moon. Robert Kooima, assistant professor of computer science in the LSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a faculty member with the Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, Initiative in the Center for Computation and Technology, can do just that.

Largest private donation in the history of LSU's College of Engineering announced at campaign kickoff

Collectively, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Edwin Edwards, Murphy "Mike" Foster, and Buddy Roemer have served as governor of Louisiana for 32 years, beginning in 1972. Since then, the United States has seen eight presidents. LSU has seen 10 head football coaches. While these four former governors may not always agree on the same route to take to serve citizens, their connection to one another in the form of their collective passion for the state is undeniable.

What does an 84-year-old Greek-born composer have in common with a 37-year-old rock musician from Detroit?

In the aftermath of the explosion at BP's Macondo Well on April 20, 2010, approximately 5 million barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. While some of the problems and damages associated with the BP oil spill were typical of other spills, others consequences were unique to the deep underwater leak that resulted from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

LSU has earned a certification in assessing and mitigating risks to safety and security at sporting events, the university announced on Thursday, April 18.

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has announced that LSU juniors Catherine Fontenot of Basile, La., and Matthew Landrieu of New Orleans are among 62 students nationwide to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship.

Craig Winchell, assistant director of Student Support Services, or SSS, is a master at flipping pancakes right inside Allen Hall. Equipped with a spatula and chocolate chips, Winchell pulls out all the stops to get and keep students involved in the programs SSS offers.

In today's world, families are frequently faced with budgeting, funding education, planning for retirement, finding appropriate insurances, deciding how to invest or preparing their taxes. When focusing on each of these areas, they want to turn to a trusted, ethical source for assistance, and the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business is preparing students to fill that need.

Public relations students at Louisiana State University have partnered with the Mental Health Association for Greater Baton Rouge to bring the importance of mental health to light and reduce its stigma.

The LSU Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the appointment of F. King Alexander as President of the LSU System and Chancellor of LSU A&M, with the understanding that these two positions will be combined under the title of President of LSU upon compliance with accreditation standards.

It is a testament to the fast-paced times when a business goes online before it gets a building, but art education alumna, and Natchitoches native, Camille Harrington Quintana an opportunity in creating a business online first.

Louisiana Economic Development plans to make a major investment in LSU's College of Engineering to rapidly grow the state's technology workforce needs and support the new IBM Services Center in Baton Rouge.

Once upon a time, the Mississippi River ran wild and uncontrolled from its source in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. The river experienced massive shifts in its course half a dozen times over the last 10,000 years, gradually contributing upstream soil and sediments to what we know today as the Mississippi River Delta and coastal wetlands.

In the early 1980s with a dream of playing college basketball, F. King Alexander eyed LSU as a possible destination. While he ultimately played four years of college basketball for St. Lawrence University in New York, years later, he has been tabbed to "run the point" in a much larger capacity..

LSU and the Baton Rouge community celebrated innovative Louisianans and ideas on March 9 as the TEDxLSU took place in the Reilly Theatre at LSU.

If there's a sport that Louisianans enjoy more than football, it might be politics. And now, the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs offers a chance for LSU students and the general public to learn the business side of politics on a day-to-day, nuts-and-bolts basis through its Academy of Applied Politics.

In the spring of 2013, women comprise 51.6 percent of the student population at LSU, the highest percentage since the spring of 2008. As the female population continues to increase at LSU and at universities across the country, the need for women's advocacy and programming is no longer a luxury, but a necessity.

When Carlissa Wells entered LSU as a freshman, she didn't have a definite answer to that dreaded age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Wells did know, however, that she had a love for science, and she was determined to see where that passion would take her.

Sergei Rachminoff. Ludwig van Beethoven. Frédéric Chopin. Kurt Cobain.

For the past 80 years, students have come to know LSU's University College under many names: Lower Division, General College, Freshman College, Junior Division and now University College.

LSU and Baton Rouge Community College announced at a press conference on March 6 the creation of a joint program that will benefit incoming students and help both institutions achieve the educational collaboration encouraged by the LA GRAD Act.

After receiving a standing ovation when the curtains lifted for "A Night with Maya Angelou," the living legend thrilled the packed house at the LSU Student Union Theater with stories of her life and her poetry.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild," a 2012 film directed by Benh Zeitlin and based on a play written by Lucy Alibar, is a film about loss, courage, climate changes and human perseverance in southern Louisiana. The fictional island in the film, the "Isle de Charles Doucet," was inspired by real communities in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish such the rapidly eroding Isle de Jean Charles, threatened by erosion, hurricanes and rising sea levels.

The LSU Student Incubator, a program of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center, or LBTC, will host its 2nd Annual Venture Challenge this spring. The program will award $25,000 to four student businesses.

Going from grits to crawfish, said former football player Lora Hinton, was the biggest adjustment when he moved to Baton Rouge from Virginia in 1971.

Those looking not only for something to eat on the LSU campus but also looking to eat healthy now have new technology available in the palm of their hand to do both.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor is the southern-most church on Bayou Lafourche, the closest house of worship to the Gulf of Mexico on this thin stretch of land in South Louisiana. The church's name refers to the Virgin Mary as a source of aid in times of great distress and it is no accident that it sits just inside the South Louisiana levee protection system, a spiritual bulwark that joins a structural one in guarding against the area's regular hurricanes.

It has been more than 25 years since tragedy struck the United States space program when seven crew members were killed in the space shuttle Challenger explosion January 28, 1986. One of those aboard the Challenger was physicist Ronald Erwin McNair, America's second African-American astronaut.

College is hard. It's a significant investment of time, money and resources, even for the average student. Never mind somebody with the responsibilities that come later in life – children, a full-time job, a mortgage, etc.

It's ready, set, go for Innovation Park, LSU's dedicated complex for research commercialization. On Jan. 25, the Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation, or BRSHF, is breaking ground at the Park for its new facility that will be called The Emerge Center for Communication, Behavior and Development.

"I have a dream." From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered those four powerful words to a crowd of more than 200,000 people who had gathered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963. Nearly 50 years after that famous speech was given and almost 35 years after his assassination, King's words continue to inspire the generations that followed.

Local news coverage of Anthony Ryan's victory.

Among LSU's many accomplished and highly respected faculty, the pinnacle of recognition is the Boyd Professorship. Established in 1953 and named for two brothers, David and Thomas Boyd, who were instrumental in setting LSU on a path toward acclaim, this professorship is unique in that it is conferred on the recipients for life. As of today, nearly 60 years since it was created, only 70 individuals have been named Boyd Professors.

A large room at the University United Methodist Church fills with gentle music as Tai Chi instructor Zhujun Pan leads a group of older adults in exercises.