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LSU launches AI assistant MikeGPT for university faculty and students

By Aidan Anthaume, Senior News Reporter January 13, 2025

As AI reshapes industries around the globe, LSU is tapping into its potential with MikeGPT, a custom-built AI assistant designed to quickly provide information about LSU resources and operations. Developed...

Craig Gingrich-Philbrook lectures the audience with one of his performances playing on screen on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, inside the HopKins Black Box Theater in Coates Hall.

‘A story of our experience’: Visiting professors discuss homophobia, violence at annual lecture

By Sarah Walton November 26, 2024

In academia, the work one does often feels solitary and requires little collaboration with others, especially when it comes to ethnographic research, but Southern Illinois University professors Craig Gingrich-Philbrook...

Clouds pass over Memorial Tower on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, on Tower Dr on LSU Campus.

Graduate students call on LSU to raise wages to $23,000 per academic year

By Will Nickel & Jayden Nguyen August 2, 2023

United Campus Workers Louisiana is demanding that LSU fulfill its promise of paying its graduate students $23,000 per academic year. The demand comes after LSU received $8 million in the state budget and...

The sun shines on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, on Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge, La.

Free speech experts place LSU on shaky legal ground for firing grad assistant over voicemail

By Claire Sullivan July 26, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. Several free speech experts say LSU is on murky legal ground for firing a graduate assistant after his profane voicemail to...

Trees frame Memorial Tower on Thursday, June 22, 2023, near Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU fires graduate assistant who left vulgar voicemail for state senator

By Piper Hutchinson July 20, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. An LSU graduate assistant will be relieved of his teaching duties — but remain at the school as a student — after...

The LSU Library sits under a partially cloudy sky on Thursday, April 13, 2023, on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, La.

Many LSU graduate assistants denied promised wage hike despite state dollars set aside for it

By Piper Hutchinson July 13, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. LSU was given $8 million in the state budget on the promise it would raise its minimum pay for all doctoral-seeking graduate...

Tree branches reach for the sky on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, near Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge, La.

Pay for Louisiana graduate assistants has not kept pace with inflation

By Piper Hutchinson June 29, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. In 1994, Jim Henderson was offered a graduate assistantship that came with a stipend the equivalent of almost $16,000 today....

Lucy Bui

New data shows Louisiana is losing college grads to Texas and other states

By Josh Archote June 6, 2023

Lucy Bui would have liked to stay close to her family and find a job in Louisiana after graduating from LSU with an architecture degree in 2022. But the professional opportunities were not in Louisiana,...

Rep. Valarie Hodges proposed a bill to collect information on diversity programs and race-related teaching.

Louisiana community college leader blasts resolution requesting diversity spending report

By Piper Hutchinson June 1, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. The president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System did not mince words Wednesday while testifying on a resolution...

Dr Bouchard and his wife, Monique Chagon

Pennington Biomedical receives $1 million for postdoctoral fellows from former executive director

By Will Nickel & Jayden Nguyen May 31, 2023

Pennington Biomedical Research Center received a $1 million gift to help improve its postdoctoral research on Tuesday. The center’s former executive director, Dr. Claude Bouchard, and his wife, Monique...

Tree branches reach for the sky on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, near Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge, La.

House kills constitutional amendment to ensure representation on higher ed governing boards

By Piper Hutchinson May 31, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. The Louisiana House of Representatives killed a proposed constitutional amendment that would have ensured alumni from each...

Few people walk through the Quad Wednesday, May 25, 2023, during LSU's summer session in Baton Rouge, La.

Summer school, summer drool: These LSU students don’t think summer classes are a bummer

By Payton Manuel May 30, 2023

When most students think of summer school, they probably feel sick to their stomachs.  "Wasting an entire summer on class? No way."  But some students are beginning to look forward to them. LSU...