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Isiah Warner, LSU vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, received the 2008 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis.

LSU’s Barry Dellinger has been recognized by the American Chemical Society with a $30,000 grant from the Astellas USA Foundation for work on environmental and health effects of combustion.

President George W. Bush recently honored LSU faculty member Randy Raggio with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for his volunteer work with the Desire Street Academy.

LSU faculty member Ursula Emery-McClure of the School of Architecture received the prestigious Rome Prize in architecture from the American Academy in Rome. The award includes a fellowship to study at the American Academy.

LSU School of Social Work Professor Brij Mohan was selected to receive the President’s Award from the National Association of Social Workers – Louisiana chapter. The award, given to Mohan for his international reputation as a scholar and author, is a special honor that has only been given to one other person in the chapter’s history.

LSU is one of only two universities in the nation to produce the combination of a Truman Scholar, four Goldwater Scholars and a USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team member this year. In addition, four LSU students have also been selected as Presidential Management Fellows – another nationally prestigious award.

A two-semester course available in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 will allow students to build data-recording payloads attached to scientific balloons capable of reaching near-space altitudes.

LSU accounting major Trista Sanders was recently notified that she received the highest student score on the international Certified Internal Auditor Exam, which was administered in November. Trista is the 16th LSU student to achieve the highest score internationally on this exam.

James Cowan, oceanography professor, and Kim DeMutsert, a graduate student, published a study taking issue with reports claiming Gulf fisheries were near collapse.

Brent Christner, assistant professor of biological sciences, discovered evidence of rain-making bacteria in the atmosphere.

Human Ecology Professor Loren Marks, along with two colleagues, published one of the first – if not only – positive studies on strong, marriage-based African American families.

LSU’s Hill Memorial Library houses one of the world’s premier collections of chess literature relating to the history and play of the game. Ask about the Gladney Chess Collection at LSU Libraries’ Special Collections.

The Manship School of Mass Communication’s doctoral program, unique in its focus on media and politics, is ranked as one of the top 10 programs in the nation for research productivity by the publication Academic Analytics.

For a second consecutive year, the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business Flores MBA Program has been ranked in the nation's top 10 by the Wall Street Journal among schools that draw corporate recruiters regionally. After debuting in the rankings at ninth last year, the program gained momentum and was ranked seventh.

For the third consecutive year, the LSU Robert S. Reich School of Landscape Architecture is ranked among the top five schools in the nation by DesignIntelligence, the leading journal of the design professions. According to the results of the 2008 survey, the school has the number two ranked undergraduate and graduate programs in landscape architecture in the United States.

James J. Spivey, associate professor and McLaurin Shivers Professor in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K.

LSU knows animation.  LSU alumnus Marty Sixkiller, post technology supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks, was technical director for Shrek the Third, Shrek 2, Over the Hedge and Flushed Away. Source: Internet Movie Database and LinkedIN.

The LSU FACES Lab (Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhanced Services Laboratory) and its director Mary Manhein have been featured numerous times in the national media and have been consulted by Scotland Yard for their efforts in identifying human skeletal remains. By analyzing remains in more than 600 cases, Manhein and her team have helped law enforcement agencies across the nation construct profiles of missing and unidentified victims for more than 20 years.