Research Newsletters
October 2025 LSU Research Highlights
From working with Louisiana communities to build greener futures in Lake Charles and Iberia Parish, to revealing the state's most advanced microscope, to making space more of a makerspace, catch up on LSU research works and wins.
September 2025 LSU Research Highlights
Learn how LSU ensures student success through growing research programs in cyber, chemical engineering, and coastal and environmental studies and how the amino acid cysteine can turn white fat cells into “a calorie-burning furnace.”
May 2025 LSU Research Highlights
LSU celebrates eclipsing the half-billion milestone in research activity, three new AAAS fellows, astrophysicists striking gold, a new way to fight cancer with fruit, and more.
March 2025 LSU Research Highlights
Learn about LSU’s growing partnership with national labs, a new class of antibiotics that starve bacteria of iron, and a new patent that helps make perfect grease every time. Also, meet our new National Academy of Inventors fellow and hear LSU researchers speak out on the value of funding science.
December 2024 LSU Research Highlights
Did you know a good egg can remain a good egg for twice as long if coated with water-soluble chitosan, a natural substance derived from the shells of Louisiana shrimp, crab, and crawfish? Also, learn how LSU researchers are transforming dementia care in rural Louisiana and studying shipwrecks to learn about underwater landslides.
October 2024 LSU Research Highlights
Our researchers are on the hunt for the evolutionary reason humans can’t regrow limbs, a new method for producing clean hydrogen, and the larger-than-life Smokey Bear.
August 2024 LSU Research Highlights
LSU rises in national rankings and renown through innovation, team work and discovery in agriculture, health, coastal research, cybersecurity and defense and energy—and by bringing rural America a little bit closer.