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LSU Cybersecurity Offerings, Capabilities to Expand with FIREStarter 2

Last fall, LSU announced a new initiative named FIREStarter, which would provide students with training in cybersecurity and threat analysis through the creation of a lab for cyber range exercises. These exercises would be conducted in partnership with Louisiana State Police and industry to simulate real-time cyberattacks on large-scale enterprise and control systems.

LSU Health

Nursing Schools Almanac has just released its 2022 rankings of the best U.S. nursing schools. LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is ranked the #10 nursing school in the U.S. and the #5 nursing school among public nursing schools.

Mario Moore: Responding to History Opens July 14 at LSU Museum of Art

LSU MOA is pleased to present Mario Moore: Responding to History. Featuring two paintings and two drawings, the showing provides an in-depth look at Moore’s nuanced artwork During and After the Battle.

Blurring Boundaries is on View at LSU Museum of Art July 14–October 23, 2022

An awe-inspiring celebration of an intergenerational group of artists—one that is both comprehensive and long overdue—Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present highlights the indelible ways in which the women of American Abstract Artists have, for more than eighty years, shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.

Steven Fletcher

The College of Engineering led off its Spring 2022 Diploma Ceremony by recognizing Steven Fletcher, the latest Sean O’Keefe Leadership Award winner.

Rohan Kadkol

The College of Engineering named its latest McLaughlin Award medalist at the Spring 2022 Diploma Ceremony. This semester’s recipient was Rohan Kadkol, a computer science major from Mumbai, India.

Nedra Davis Hains Promoted to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art

LSU Museum of Art is pleased to announce Nedra Davis Hains’ promotion to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art. Nedra Davis Hains is a key member of the senior leadership team of LSU MOA, charged with maintaining the museum’s day-to-day business operations, development and external affairs efforts, and advancing its strategic goals.

LSU Museum of Art Appoints New Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte

The LSU Museum of Art is excited to announce Michelle Schulte as the new Senior Curator and Director of Programming at the museum as of April 2022.

Students look at immunization reports on a large touchscreen television

LSU Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between LSUS and LSU Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2022 rankings, which cited the program's high retention rates.

a man in waders stands in thigh-high marsh water

When the U.S. Army needed to understand how climate change will affect the so-called “critical zone”—the thin land surface layer comprised of vegetation, soils, and sediments—to improve their own planning and secure people, equipment, and infrastructure, they turned to LSU.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Pennington Biomedical, in partnership with LSU Health New Orleans, is taking part in a study using machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions.

Kevin Xu on a boat in water

LSU scientists are learning how to manage sediment to prevent land loss and improve hurricane preparedness in Louisiana's southernmost port, a key place for the U.S. energy industry, but also one of the nation's most vulnerable places.

Ross Barnett Reservior at sunset

In the wake of 2016 floods, which devastated Tangipahoa Parish and 20 other South Louisiana parishes, the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and LSU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering began collaborating with local government and communities to set Tangipahoa Parish on a path toward resilience.

Person standing in a flooded house

LSU researchers, from coastal scientists and engineers to sociologists and psychologists, are working to protect Louisiana residents and homeowners from the potentially devastating impacts of flooding.

Ming Xuansun

How we can use artificial intelligence for social good? Artificial intelligence, or AI, can help us make decisions, but one of the biggest concerns is the bias problem.