Research News

LSU Reilly Center to Examine Plantations’ Historical Portrayal of Slavery, Solutions to Shift the Narrative

The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication will host the season five opener of Racism: Dismantling the System, “Narrative Shifting: Centering the Humanity of the Enslaved on Plantations” on Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. CT. The discussion will explore how plantations have historically presented the story of slavery and solutions to change these distorted narratives.

I-Corps

LSU is one of the lead organizations for a new, National Science Foundation-funded regional hub that will help propel more research out of the lab and into the real world.

LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hunter Gilbert

LSU’s Center for Innovations in Structural Integrity Assurance is funding a $50,000 research project spearheaded by LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hunter Gilbert that will benefit local industries.

LSU Ranks Among Top 100 Universities Worldwide Granted U.S. Utility Patents

LSU ranked among the top universities worldwide granted U.S. utility patents, according to the National Academy of Inventors.

Researchers at LSU Address Environmental Weathering of Microplastics, Pollutant Uptake

In a new paper by faculty and students in LSU Chemical Engineering and Chemistry published in ACS Environmental Au, the group details its research into the effects of weathering on microplastics and how it might increase pollutant uptake.

The Hunt for Artemis

LSU alumnus Connor Matherne's images of the moon go viral on Reddit and Instagram.

Scientists from LSU Coastal Studies Institute, 1967

LSU Libraries' new exhibition, "Water, Water Everywhere: Control and Consequence in Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands," will be on display in Hill Memorial Library from Sept. 6 - Dec. 21 and is free and open to the public.

Michoud Assembly Facility

NASA has awarded $5 million to LSU digital media experts and advanced manufacturing engineers to grow the aerospace and spacecraft industry.

Football COVID

A first-of-its-kind study conducted in collaboration with LSU's School of Kinesiology, LSU Athletics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Our Lady of the Lake researched how the immune system of elite student athletes responded to the COVID-19 virus.

LSU Boyd Professor’s Legacy Elevates Research and Scholarship

A $1.3 million estate gift from the late LSU Boyd Professor E. Ward Plummer and his wife Elizabeth “Betty” Plummer creates a new LSU College of Science’s Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student scholarship and endowed professorship for materials research.

Cassidy Visit

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. visited 51Âţ»­ in Baton Rouge, where among other stops, he toured the LSU Petroleum Engineering Research, Training and Testing (PERTT) Laboratory.

LSU Research

Louisiana benefits from more than $324 million garnered for research & development in agriculture, biomedicine, coast, defense, energy, among other fields

Flooding from Hurricane Harvey

New research shows climate change exacerbated extreme weather damages from Hurricane Harvey.

LSU Campus Mounds

New research reveals more information about the LSU Campus Mounds, including the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments and a coordinated alignment of both mounds toward one of the brightest stars in the night sky. This new information offers more insight into the oldest known man-made structures in the Americas.

LSU and Nexus Louisiana Host Startup Accelerator for Tech Entrepreneurs

Ignition 1.0 is ideal for companies ready to test the viability of their business idea.