This story will be updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday when LSU updates its COVID-19 dashboard. Click the embedded links to each school's roadmap for the most up-to-date information.
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By Lara Nicholson | @laranicholson_
• November 6, 2020
Since the start of the fall semester, over 1,200 students across campus have contracted COVID-19, including those within residence halls. The University uses various tools to determine which residence...
LSU disease ecologists Bret Elderd and Tad Dallas have been forming multiple epidemic models that display the spread of COVID-19 since earning a one-year $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s...
LSU athletics announced on Thursday cost-saving measures to help mitigate the loss of an estimated $80 million in revenue, brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Eight employees have been laid off,...
Residents of McVoy Hall received an email from the University Thursday stating that they will be tested for COVID-19 Thursday between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The University identified the residence hall as "an...
Residents of Kirby Smith Hall received an email Wednesday stating that they will be tested for COVID-19 Wednesday between 3-6 p.m.
According to the email, Kirby Smith was identified as "an area of heightened...
On Oct. 22, residents of East and West Laville Hall received emails from the University saying they need to be tested for COVID-19 on Friday, Oct. 23.
The University said in the email that the halls "have...
By Lara Nicholson | @laranicholson_, Hannah Primeaux | @h_primeaux and Brock Sanders | @BrockSanders6
• October 15, 2020
During these unprecedented times, public universities across the nation are attempting to traverse the uncharted territory that is socially distanced online learning. The majority of public universities...
LSU Interim President Tom Galligan urged students to get tested for COVID-19 at least once a month in an email delivered Tuesday afternoon.
The email comes after Deborah Birx, head of the White House...
By Lara Nicholson | @laranicholson_
• October 1, 2020
On Monday, Sept. 28, the University reported a total number of 1,033 COVID-19 cases among students and faculty in the community. This number was made in error when the COVID-19 dashboard was updated to...
By Katherine Manuel & Anna Jones | @kmanuel_2 & @annajoneses
• September 30, 2020
On Sept. 27, students in Cypress, Spruce and Blake Hall received an email informing them they would be required to receive a COVID-19 test because their residence halls were identified as areas of “heightened...
The University updated its COVID-19 reporting dashboard Friday to include more information on positive case trends, total number of tests taken and the number of students and faculty in isolation or quarantine.
The...
