Six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, more than 400 University students have made efforts to ensure such a tragedy never occurs again.
The LSU Petroleum Engineering Research and Technology Transfer,...
University students are taking learning — and fresh animal bones — into their own hands.
On Sept. 21, students in assistant anthropology professor Juliet Brophy’s paleoecology and taphonomy...
Conducting a first-of-its-kind study, LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is at the forefront of using nutrition research to improve field performance among soldiers.
During military missions,...
While most geologists might be focusing on rocks on Earth, a group of University researchers’ work is going out of this world.
University assistant professor Suniti Karunatillake is the leader of...
Netflix’s sci-fi smash hit of the summer, “Stranger Things,” may walk the line between sci-fi and horror, but the show doesn’t deliver on scientific accuracy, according to University...
Students and faculty will meet up at Schlittz and Giggles Sept. 27 to discuss Louisiana dialects, with University professor Janna Oetting from the Language Development and Disorders Lab leading the discussion.
The...
With the discovery of a new species, post-doctoral fellow Sara Ruane is helping define the evolutionary patterns of snakes in Madagascar.
In February 2014, Ruane and a team of researchers from the American...
Noelle Bryan researches bugs in space.
Bryan, a biological sciences Ph.D. student, has been researching and identifying the bacteria, or “bugs” as she calls them, surviving in the stratosphere...
While increased exposure to the Zika virus is a valid concern among Baton Rouge residents after the recent flooding in the region, three University experts agree that West Nile, not Zika, is what people...
Alan Stern, a New Orleans native and the principal investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, presented the results of the mission to the University Friday in the Hill Memorial Library.
Stern...
Louisiana’s coastal erosion, the state’s biggest ecological concern, now has a human narrative through a project by one University student. Madelyn Smith is the creator of “Louisiana...
The LSU Board of Supervisors approved a resolution on June 24 allowing LSU AgCenter to begin growing medical marijuana under Senate Bill 143.
University Vice President for Agriculture William Richardson...
