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LSU Libraries Hosts 2024 Audubon Day

LSU Libraries Hosts 2024 Audubon Day

For its annual Audubon Day, LSU Libraries will host a viewing of the famed double elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America (London, 1827-1838) on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Hill Memorial Library on LSU’s main campus. Audubon was a talented and complicated artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His illustrated compendium of the birds in the United States, Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

LSU-Developed Vaccine Could Save U.S. Cattle Industry $1 Billion Annually

LSU-Developed Vaccine Could Save U.S. Cattle Industry $1 Billion Annually

An LSU researcher has developed a new vaccine against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and related illnesses that kill around 8 million calves each year and cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion.

Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building rendering

STEM Win: LSU Breaks Ground on Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building

LSU broke ground on Friday, March 15, on the Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building, having achieved a $148 million funding goal to expand research and teaching laboratories in science fields.

Murray Selected Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors

LSU Professor Kermit Murray Selected Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors

Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry Kermit K. Murray has been selected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. This year's class comprises 124 accomplished academic inventors representing 60 research universities, governmental entities and nonprofit institutes worldwide. The Senior Member program is an exclusive award created to showcase the innovative ecosystems at NAI member institutions, like LSU, which provide the supportive environment to foster novel discoveries. Senior members are chosen from active faculty, scientists, and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization who have produced technologies that have the potential for a real impact on the welfare of society.

LSU BUSINESS STUDENT EARNS THIRD PLACE IN NATIONAL CYBER THREAT COMPETITION

LSU Business Student Earns Third Place in National Cyber Threat Competition

LSU Information Systems and Decision Sciences (ISDS) major Daniel Lichowid Jr. placed third in the 2024 Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Cyber Threat Competition, held at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas from Feb. 15-17. Out of approximately 1,500 students, Lichowid was one of 60 individuals to move onto the final round, cementing himself in the top 5% of all participants.

LSU Director of Bands Damon Talley Elected to American Bandmasters Association

LSU Director of Bands Damon Talley Elected to American Bandmasters Association

LSU's Paula G. Manship Professor and Director of Bands Damon Talley was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association (ABA), considered one of the highest honors in the nation for a wind band conductor, the LSU School of Music announced Tuesday.

LSU Law Professor Lisa Avalos

LSU Law Professor Lisa Avalos selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to complete research on forthcoming book in United Kingdom

LSU Law Professor Lisa Avalos has received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to conduct research on her forthcoming book, She Must Be Lying to Us! When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime, in the United Kingdom during the 2024-25 academic year.

LSU Researcher Margaret Reams

LSU Institute for Energy Innovation Welcomes Margaret Reams as New Associate Director for Community Engagement

LSU researcher Margaret Reams, the Joseph D. Martinez Professor of Environmental Sciences, has joined the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation as its new associate director for community engagement.

Customers at Book Bazaar

Friends of the LSU Libraries Hosting 2024 Book Bazaar

The Friends of the LSU Libraries Book Bazaar will be held Friday, April 12 – Sunday, April 14 at the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum. It will offer thousands of new and used books as well as CDs, DVDs and vinyl records.

LSU Celebrates Six Rainmakers

LSU Celebrates Six Rainmakers

Six LSU faculty members have been selected as Rainmakers this year by the LSU Council on Research based on their outstanding scholarship and creative activity within their respective ranks and disciplines. The Rainmaker awards recognize sustained work with high impact on the academic community and beyond, often in alignment with LSU's Scholarship First Agenda to elevate lives.

LSU Announces the Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium: Bringing Minds Together

LSU Announces the Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium: Bringing Minds Together

The Baton Rouge Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Baton Rouge Chapter (SfN BTR) presents the inaugural "Neuroscience Symposium: Bringing Minds Together." The event will take place Friday, March 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at Pennington Biomedical Research Conference Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

LSU Researchers Design Tool to Explore Effects of Solar Farming on Louisiana Ecosystems

LSU Researchers Design Tool to Explore Effects of Solar Farming on Louisiana Ecosystems

Though solar farming is not a novel concept in renewable energy, it is fairly new to the state of Louisiana. With the advancement of renewable resources come questions about how they will affect humans and the environment. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Chris Kees understands this curiosity and is working alongside LSU School of Landscape Architecture Professor Fabiana Trindade da Silva and LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources Professor Brett Wolfe to study the effects of solar farming in the state.

LSU Alumni Association announces its 2024 Hall of Distinction class

LSU Alumni Association announces its 2024 Hall of Distinction class

Dr. William A. Brookshire, co-founder and longtime chairman of S&B Engineers and Constructors, was named the 2024 LSU Alumnus of the Year. Seimone Augustus, former Tiger and WNBA Great, was named Young Alumna of the Year. Dr. Brookshire is being recognized posthumously.

Andrew Maas

LSU's Andrew Maas named chair of global nonprofit AUTM

Andrew J. Maas, associate vice president for research overseeing the LSU Office of Innovation & Ecosystem Development, has been named board chair of AUTM, a global nonprofit whose members support the commercialization of academic research. Maas has more than 16 years of experience in technology licensing and commercialization. He succeeds Almesha L. Campbell, PhD, assistant vice president for research and economic development at Jackson State University. Maas's term as chair ends in February 2025.

LSU Students Traveling to Ghana with New Global Ambassadors Program

LSU Students Traveling to Ghana with New Global Ambassadors Program

For the first time ever, ten outstanding LSU students will travel to Ghana with LSU's new Global Ambassadors Program (GAP).