The LSU System’s Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to approve the naming of the 67th Boyd professorship since the initiation of the award in 1953.The Board named Charles O’Conner, a chemistry professor at the University of New Orleans, the new Boyd professor, making him the sixth professor from UNO to receive the honor.The Boyd professorship is considered the System’s highest academic rank and is limited to professors who have attained national or international distinctions for outstanding research, teaching and other creative achievements.O’Conner is considered an international expert on materials science and nanotechnology. He is the author of two books on magnetic properties of materials, and his work has been cited more than 850 times by other researchers.O’Conner also led the development of a UNO outreach summer research program for high-school students. He earned his doctoral degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1979 and joined UNO the same year as an assistant professor. He was named a full-time professor in 1989, and he was honored as a distinguished professor of chemistry in 2001.——Contact Leslie Presnall at [email protected]