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Nutrition and food sciences senior Brittany Craft is one of the 10 LSU Discover scholars for 2016.

Research Rookies: LSU Discover program recognizes undergraduate researchers from various academic disciplines

By Beth Carter February 16, 2016

Each year the LSU Discover program recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding research in different majors. Recipients must submit an application, be nominated by professors and be chosen by a panel...

Assistant Professor Sunyoung Park, pictured in her Coates Hall office Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, conducts research on human resource development, including the positive effects of a team-oriented workplace.

Professor studies ways to improve workplace culture

By Katie Gagliano February 16, 2016

Sunyoung Park, assistant professor of human resource education and workforce development, said professors’ investments in students can improve the educational environment. Park is presenting her...

Mass Communication Associate Professor and Digital Media Initiative Director Dr. Lance Porter tracks various social media data on one of several large screens Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in the Social Media Analysis and Creation (SMAC) Lab located in Hodges Hall.

SMAC Lab offers space to research social media

By Lily Aguillard February 12, 2016

With moveable TVs on the walls, a touch screen control table and cushions for seating, sitting in the the Manship School of Mass Communication’s new Social Media Analysis and Creation Lab feels like...

LIGO confirms existence of Einstein’s gravitational waves

By Caitlin Burkes February 11, 2016

In honor of the centennial anniversary of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, members of the National Science Foundation and Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...

Assistant Professor of Pathobiological Sciences, Rebecca Christofferson, and her team of researchers study the Zika virus on Tuesday, February 02, 2016 at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

Vet school professors researching various aspects of Zika virus outbreak

By Allyson Sanders February 3, 2016

In a small lab on the third floor of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, a professor and her grad students are using mice, mosquitos and monkey cells to study the latest outbreak of the Zika virus. Pathobiological...

The members of the Hyperloop production team, a high-speed transportation system, on Monday, February 01, 2016, at the Business Education Complex.

LSU students create design for ‘Hyperloop’ transportation system

By Katie Gagliano February 2, 2016

The LSU Hyperloop design team is looking to revolutionize transportation in Louisiana — but first, they have to turn their concept into a reality. On Saturday, the team competed against more than...

LSU associate professor Kip Matthews, associate professor Dr. Guang Jia, and graduate student Joe Steiner displaying their x-ray technique and equipment for the detection and curing of prostate cancer on Monday Jan. 25, 2016, in Nicholson Hall on LSU campus.

Professor, doctoral candidate develop device to improve prostate cancer screening

By Katie Gagliano February 2, 2016

Physics professor Guang Jia and medical physics doctoral candidate Joseph Steiner are revolutionizing prostate cancer screening by developing a device to increase accuracy. If successful, their device...

Ben Nguyen is the owner of Cyber Fision, which is one of the busineses in the LBTC Student Business Incubator within the LBTC at LSU Innovation Park.

LSU Innovation Park supports growing businesses, helps commercialize University research

By Caitlin Burkes February 2, 2016

LSU’s Office of Research and Economic Development houses the Louisiana Business and Technology Center Innovation Park, a 200-plus-acre research park that includes a five-business incubator system...

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LSU system launches new initiative to show public the value of research

By Kaci Cazenave February 1, 2016

As of 2016, the pages of academic journals and outdated laboratories won’t be the only homes to University faculty research, thanks to a newly proposed LSU System initiative nicknamed “Research...

Textiles, apparel design and merchandising assistant professors Laurel Romeo and Casey Stannard work with a 3D body scanner to study how modern body shapes fit with outdated colthing sizes.

Professors use 3-D body scanner to change apparel industry

By Allyson Sanders January 28, 2016

Researchers from the College of Agriculture are reshaping the apparel industry with a new study that could change how clothes are sized and                 ...

The IRENI beamline consists of 24 mirrors focusing 12 beams of infrared radiation onto a single spot

One-of-a-kind chemical instrument to be housed at LSU

By Tia Banerjee January 26, 2016

A one-of-a-kind chemical imaging instrument used for breast cancer research, Alzheimer’s disease research and paint degradation research, will soon find its home at the University. The InfraRed ENvironmental...

Poultry science senior Ariel Bergeron has raised approximately 2,700 bobwhite quail during her undergraduate career as part of a research project on quail nutrition.

Senior researches quail nutrition

By Katie Gagliano January 26, 2016

Ariel Bergeron understands chicks. The poultry science senior has raised approximately 2,700 bobwhite quail over three years of undergraduate research. Existing research on the quail industry is over 40...