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Niki Marie Hansen, a LSU graduate student, and her dog, Bob, on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

Graduate student makes socket prosthetic limbs for animals

By Caitlin Burkes January 26, 2016

Bob, a hound mix, crosses his paws — one a chocolate brown foot of fur, the other a homemade socket prosthetic made of fiberglass, resin and a dollar store bouncy ball. The makeshift front leg has...

Consumers answer a series of questions about the barbecue sauce they are testing Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 at the Sensory Analysis Center.

Sensory Analysis Center offers services, equipment to test products

By Tia Banerjee January 20, 2016

The first floor of the Animal and Food Sciences Laboratories Building houses the LSU AgCenter Sensory Analysis Center, a facility smelling of barbecue sauce, or possibly cake, depending on the day. Sensory...

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LABrainS project researches risk factors associated with dementia, therapeutic strategies to prevent risks

By Caitlin Burkes November 23, 2015

As National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month draws to a close, Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention continues working on its LABrainS project,...

LSU System faculty research projects awarded more than $530,000 in LIFT2 grant funding

By Joshua Jackson November 2, 2015

A recently received LIFT2 grant will provide geography and anthropology professor David Sathiaraj the funds to begin developing a software able to project who a political campaigns’ likely supporters...

Courtesy of Andrew Barocco

Horticulture senior crossbreeds new sweet potato variety

By Carrie Grace Henderson November 2, 2015

Plant and soil systems senior Andrew Barocco’s work with sweet potatoes proves that farming is as much about science as it is about hard work. His first day on the job at the LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato...

The "Advancing Scholarship and Learning for 80 Years: LSU Press and the Southern Review," exhibit will be open to the public Oct. 19 through Jan. 30 at Hill Memorial Library.

Hill Memorial Library displays history of LSU Press, Southern Review

By Carrie Grace Henderson October 19, 2015

Eighty years of LSU history is out for display in Hill Memorial Library in a new exhibition, “Advancing Scholarship and Learning for 80 Years: LSU Press and The Southern Review.” The exhibit...

Erasmus+ grant allows LSU students to research in Grenoble, France

By Caitlin Burkes October 12, 2015

Bordering Switzerland and Monaco and fenced in by the French Alps on three sides, the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, boasts some of the most promising collegiate research in all of Europe...

Museum of Natural Science curator discovers new species of rat on island

Museum of Natural Science curator discovers new species of rat on island

By Joshua Jackson October 7, 2015

The number of unidentified species in the world is reduced by one after LSU Museum of Natural Science Curator of Mammals Jake Esselstyn and his colleagues from Indonesia and Australia discovered a new...

Psychology professors receive Regents grant for EEG neuroscience lab

By Meredith Musso October 7, 2015

A group of psychology professors received a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents this summer for more than $100,000 to enhance equipment in the electroencephalogram neuroscience lab. The grant also...

Kevin Macaluso, PhD, Mary Louise Martin Professor in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, receives grant renewal to support research of spotted fever components transmitted by ticks, on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2015, at LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

NIH awards $1.6 million grant renewal to LSU professors studying pathogenic diseases

By Kaci Cazenave October 6, 2015

A $1.6 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health is helping pathobiological sciences professor Kevin Macaluso and associate professor Juan Martinez improve treatment and diagnosis of...

LSU AgCenter receives $1.25 million from CDC

By Carrie Grace Henderson October 6, 2015

The LSU AgCenter aims to improve rural health throughout the state with its new Healthy ABCs program, funded by a two-year, $1.25 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By the...

Doctoral candidate in Geology Shannon Ferguson used her expertise in forensic palynology in order to help locate the missing body of a child this past summer.

Doctoral student assists in pollen analysis for Baby Doe investigation

By Joshua Jackson September 27, 2015

Though it might seem like a common allergen to some, for geology and geophysics doctoral student Shannon Ferguson, pollen was the key to assisting in identifying the origin of the body of a two-year-old...