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LSU leadership and human resource development graduate Aimee Ardonne throws up her cap for a photo Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, on the ramp of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in front of Tiger Stadium on N. Stadium Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

‘They’re going to be held back here’: Lack of opportunity, parents push LSU graduates to settle outside of the state

By Josh Archote October 10, 2021

Before Alexandria native Dylan Govender took his TOPS-funded computer engineering degree from LSU to Washington D.C., his professors, parents and friends encouraged him to do so, or risk getting stuck...

Banners reading “COVID-19 Vaccine Site” move in the wind on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, outside of the LSU Union Theater.

LSU received over $100 million in COVID relief funds. Here’s how they spent it.

By Bella Dardano October 10, 2021

LSU has received over $100 million in total COVID relief funds from the government. So far, the university has spent nearly $56 million of those funds on efforts to protect and assist students and staff...

A sign informs students about donating plasma Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, outside the BioLife Plasma Services building on 11620 Coursey Blvd in Baton Rouge, La.

With textbook fees and bills piling, LSU freshmen find odd jobs out of financial desperation

By By Maddie Scott October 10, 2021

From donating blood plasma to participating in science studies, LSU freshmen are turning to alternative ways of making money to pay for necessities and college expenses. Social work freshman Bella Costanza...

Construction materials and equipment sit near the LSU Studio Arts Buildings on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, on South Campus Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

‘Decrepit beyond all imagination’: Studio arts building under renovation after years of disrepair

By Gabby Jimenez October 8, 2021

After 46 years since the first meeting to plan the project, the Studio Arts building is finally under renovation. The 41,500-square-foot building is one of the first built at LSU around 1924 and marks...

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Lawsuit: LSU brushed off complaints against accused rapist

By Kevin McGill October 7, 2021

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana State University officials did little to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a French graduate student, enabling his interactions with undergraduate...

LSU COVID Testing assistants arrange their testing areas for incoming students on Friday, September 10, 2021.

LSU researchers create contact-tracing app to track COVID-19 spread. But will students use it?

By Piper Hutchinson October 6, 2021

LSU engineering professor Lu Peng and a group of graduate and undergraduate students developed GeauxTrace, a mobile contact tracing app that notifies users of close contact with somebody who reports contracting...

A HEPA filter sits in corner, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2021, in a studio in Atkinson Hall on LSU's campus.

‘Sabotaging the process’: Has LSU’s multi-million dollar investment in HEPA filters gone to waste?

By Piper Hutchinson October 6, 2021

Before students returned to campus for the fall semester, LSU made a multi-million dollar investment installing HEPA filters in every active classroom to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. But it has...

Students take notes Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 while social distancing in MC 2010 class in West Hall.

As LSU students and professors return to classes on campus, remnants of pandemic-era learning remain

By Jared Saucier October 6, 2021

For better or for worse, most LSU students are no longer attending classes from the comfort of their homes. While some are glad to be back to in-person classes, others grew accustomed to hybrid courses...

Luuanne Nguyen, Mya Dixon, and Daniel Sentilles work hard on mixing many paint buckets for Habitat of Humanity at Geaux Big Baton Rouge.

Rapidly growing club on campus serves low-income communities and promotes diversity

By Gabby Jimenez October 6, 2021

A new and rapidly growing student organization on campus aims to help low-income families by providing access to medicine, education and community development projects. MEDLIFE at LSU is a chapter of the...

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‘Very disappointing but not very shocking’: LSU ranks one of the worst U.S. colleges for free speech

By Domenic Purdy & Josh Archote October 5, 2021

LSU was ranked one of the worst U.S. colleges for free speech in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s 2021 college free speech rankings released Sept. 21. LSU placed 152 out of 154...

LSU students fill most of the seats on Aug. 26, 2021, of an Accounting 2001 class in the Business Education Auditorium.

Faculty, students raise concerns that COVID-19 protocols are not being followed on campus

By Piper Hutchinson October 4, 2021

As ICU beds remain full in Baton Rouge with Delta-variant COVID-19 patients, LSU students and faculty alike raise concerns that the prevention protocols laid out in the university’s “COVID-19...

FILE - In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY October 4, 2021

Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms suffered a worldwide outage Monday that has extended more than three hours. Facebook's internal systems used by employees also went down. Service...