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The Lion's Eye Center on 2020 Gravier St at LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.

New Pfizer pill could cut COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates by 89%. LSU health experts weigh in

By Bella Dardano November 30, 2021

A new antiviral pill developed by Pfizer cut hospitalization and death risk in COVID-19 patients by nearly 90% in clinical trials, the pharmaceutical company announced earlier this month. LSU health professionals...

Troy H. Middleton Library—the first subject of building renaming efforts, now named LSU Library—on June 17, 2020, on LSU's campus.

President Tate on LSU building renaming efforts: ‘I would have never started that committee’

By Josh Archote November 28, 2021

LSU President William Tate IV told the Reveille Nov. 23 that he wouldn’t have formed the university’s Building Renaming Committee, the 16-person group created in June 2020 by LSU under former...

President William F. Tate IV tours the Pennington Biomedical Research Center during his first semester at LSU. 

President Tate reflects on first semester at LSU; talks Title IX, COVID-19 and goals going forward

By Josh Archote & Piper Hutchinson November 28, 2021

The Reveille sat down with President William Tate IV Nov. 23 to discuss the most pressing issues facing LSU as the new president's first semester in Baton Rouge nears its end.  Title IX “Every...

Vice provost for diversity and chief diversity officer Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris speaks at the Clarence L. Barney, Jr. African American Cultural Center (AACC) Jazz Brunch on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in the LSU Club at Union Square.

LSU diversity head retires after 12 years at university; Office of Diversity now under Title IX Office

By Bella Dardano November 28, 2021

Dereck Rovaris, vice provost for the Office of Diversity, retired after nearly 12 years at LSU, according to university spokesperson Ernie Ballard. Rovaris has worked with LSU since 2010, when he joined...

Lizzie Shaw and Nicholas St. Mary announced their Student Government presidential campaigns in November ahead of the spring election season.

‘Duo for Change’: First Student Government presidential campaign announced ahead of 2022 spring elections

By Henry Weldon November 26, 2021

As Student Government election season nears, students launched the first presidential campaign ahead of the spring 2022 semester, when a new student body president and many other positions will be elected. LSU...

LSU music and microbiology sophomore Emma Stevens poses for a photo Thursday, Sep. 17, 2020 on the corner of Highland Road and Veterans Drive on LSU's campus.

LSU researchers join study aiming to unlock secrets of long COVID

By Piper Hutchinson November 24, 2021

Imagine someone tells you you’re going to get a pin prick. No big deal, until you’re informed that there’s a 50-50 chance that the prick will give you brain damage and lead to a host...

Museumgoers visit "Iridescence" at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum on Nov. 1, 2021.

‘Nature does have this profound beauty’: Art and science intersect in exhibit highlighting LSU lab

By Domenic Purdy November 23, 2021

A new exhibit at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum, featuring research from assistant professor of entomology Nathan Lord, seeks to bridge the gap between the worlds of art and science. The exhibit,...

An LSU police car blocks Veterans Drive on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La.

Report: LSU professor killed after being struck by car while biking

By Reveille Staff Report November 21, 2021

LSU AgCenter professor Norimoto Murai was killed when he was struck by a car while biking near campus Saturday morning, according to The Advocate. Murai, 77, was hit by a 2017 Hyundai Tucson as he was...

Gov. John Bel Edwards stands on the side on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, at the William A. Brookshire Military & Veterans Student Center Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony.

‘When we sue, we win’: Black Baton Rouge residents call for second majority Black congressional district

By Piper Hutchinson November 21, 2021

Black Baton Rouge residents called for a second majority Black congressional district in Louisiana at the Joint Governmental Affairs Committee’s fifth public meeting on the redistricting process.  At...

Joseph Edwards, missing since 1964, is believed to have been murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen and sheriff’s deputies. His case is thought to be the only one investigated by the FBI and Justice Department during the Civil Rights era in which the body has never been found.

A Ferriday man disappeared nearly 60 years ago. Now, the family is still looking for answers.

By Claire Sullivan & Eternity Honore November 21, 2021

Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed murder, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury. Carl Ray Thompson, then 26, spotted his cousin’s two-toned...

Two scooters sit attached to a bike rack on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, near LSU’s Lockett Hall in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU commuters frustrated by lack of parking turn to electric scooters

By Maddie Scott November 20, 2021

Scooter-bearing LSU students have undergone significant slander due to their choice of transportation in recent years. But many of them say it’s the easiest and most efficient way to navigate an...

Members of the LSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee listen to the speaker on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, during the LSU Faculty Senate meeting in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex in Baton Rouge, La.

Faculty Senate enters unlawful executive session during meeting, kicks out non-Senate members

By Piper Hutchinson November 17, 2021

LSU Faculty Senate leadership kicked out non-members of a public meeting Monday, including a Reveille reporter, without following proper protocols to go into executive session, which allows public bodies...