Chemistry junior Blake Kruger is developing a new treatment for Kaposi sarcoma, a type of cancer which disproportionately affects black people, the homeless and gay males, three groups that commonly lack...

Nonhuman Rights Project president Steven Wise spoke to members of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and Law School faculty members Thursday about the NhRP’s legal efforts on behalf of chimpanzees. The...

The eco-friendly movement has gone from a niche trend to a necessary mindset in many careers, including landscape architecture. New Orleans architect David Waggonner, whose firm has done collaborative...

When assistant computer science professor Mingxuan Sun sees data, it’s more than a string of numbers. Sun is researching how data can be used to increase accuracy in online recommendation systems...

Kimberlye Dean, a clinical psychology graduate student, wants to change the conversation surrounding mental health in the black student community. Dean is entering the second month of her 10-month master’s...

With a periodic table recipe and a hefty $30,000 LIFT2 grant, University physics professor Shane Stadler went to the lab and created a cooling material. Joined by a University team of a post-doctorate,...

After 40 years of meticulous calculations, instrument adjustments, and trial and error, three generations of scientists unlocked the code to Einstein’s century-old General Theory of Relativity. Even...

In conjunction with a five-year, $17.2 million grant, researchers from the LSU AgCenter are working to support Louisiana’s bioproducts industry. With cutting-edge technologies and innovative recycling...

The LSU AgCenter has expanded its outreach all the way down to the Ninth Ward of New Orleans in a recent project to help urban agricultural development. The teaching gardens aim to educate citizens of...

Louisiana is ranks 13th among all states and D.C. for "structurally deficient" bridges according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. ARTBA says 1,838 of all Louisiana bridges...

Rajesh Menon, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Utah, has created an ultra-thin camera lens with the help of graduate students. Current lenses are flat...

If mathematics professor Robert Lipton has his way, selfies could be sent to Saturn. Lipton is a member of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant team composed of professors from the...