U.S. News and World Report's 2018 edition of their Best Colleges list ranked the University 63rd among public universities out of 190. This puts the University in the top tier for the 10th-straight year.
The...
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will fund a four-year project to scan 20,000 vertebrate specimens to comprise a free digital encyclopedia available to the public.
Associate Professor in...
Assistant Professor of Mass Communication Kathleen Searles and Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M Johanna Dunaway recently conducted an investigation on the effects of consuming news...
The LSU AgCenter has partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the declining honeybee population.Kristen Healy, an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology, emphasized...
A new species has been discovered halfway across the world with the help of a University professor.Biological sciences assistant professor Jake Esselstyn and his research team discovered a new species...
The University’s agriculture department has been approved to work on a new research initiative of the medicinal use of the marijuana plant.
The measure was approved at the LSU Board of Supervisors...
Students can go back in time while viewing ancient fossils, research from the 1800s and sketches of dragons at the newest exhibit in the University’s Hill Memorial Library.
The exhibit, titled “Paper...
A team of University faculty and students are researching landslide deposits in Gulf of Mexico seabeds. Since its discovery in 2001, the S.S. Virginia, a sunken oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico, has...
Whether it’s an 18th century Charles D’Agar oil painting or a 3-D printed sculpture, science can be found everywhere in art.
University chemistry professor John Pojman curated the “Polymers...
Black athletes in America are finding themselves in a form of slavery in college athletic programs, LSU sociologist Lori Martin implies in her book, “Pay to Play: Race and the Perils of the...
Electrical engineering assistant professor LaVonda Brown is bringing a human touch to the field of robotics.
Brown, who joined the electrical engineering faculty in January, is researching ways to leverage...
It takes a village — especially when working on high level research.
Researchers from LSU and Lund University in Sweden collaborated to find a new method for using strong laser pulses to direct short...
