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Bones

LSU course replicates hominid scavenging processes

By Katie Gagliano September 27, 2016

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...

Pennington

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical conducts Optimizing Performance for Soldiers study with DOD

By Lauren Heffker September 25, 2016

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,...

LSU graduate student Don Hood and his advisor Suniti Karunatillake hold LSU Mars globe in the Planetary Science Laboratory of Howe-Russell on Sept. 16, 2016.

LSU researchers study geology, geochemistry of Mars

By Natalie Anderson September 20, 2016

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...

LSU professor explains science behind Netflix series "Stranger Things"

LSU professor explains science behind Netflix series “Stranger Things”

By Lauren Heffker September 20, 2016

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...

In this file photo from 2015, LSU Associate Professor of Sociology Tim Slack discusses mapping obesity in the United States of America on at Chelsea’s Cafe. 

Science Café to host research poetry slam

September 15, 2016

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...

A snake species is held in a bucket for further examining on Sept. 13, 2016 in Foster Hall.

LSU fellow part of team which discovered new snake in Madagascar

By Katie Gagliano September 13, 2016

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...

University graduate student Noelle Bryan researches microbes and their reaction to life on Mars by utilizing Earth's stratosphere as a similar environment in her project, Modes of Adaptation, Resistance and Survival for Life Inhabiting a Freeze-dried-radiation-bathed Environment, or MARSLife.

Student with MARSLIFE program studies bacteria survival in stratosphere

By Allison Bruhl September 13, 2016

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...

LSU Assistant Professor of Pathobiological Sciences, Rebecca Christofferson, explains her research on mosquito-borne viruses, including Zika and chikungunya on Sept. 6, 2016. She has been awarded a 1.2 million dollar grant to study the viruses, effective from September 1, 2016 to August 21, 2019.

LSU experts say West Nile, not Zika, is Louisiana’s concern

By Lauren Heffker September 6, 2016

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...

Leader of New Horizons Pluto exploration presents results to LSU

By Natalie Anderson September 2, 2016

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...

University students document Louisiana coastal communities

University students document Louisiana coastal communities

By Beth Carter July 13, 2016

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...

In this photo taken June 2, 2016, medical marijuana grows at Jeff Smith's and Cassie Heckenkamp's property along the McKenzie River east of Springfield, Ore. The pair had hoped to expand the grow operation on their property with a large recreational marijuana crop, but zoning rules won't allow it. (Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP)

University AgCenter preparing for medical marijuana program

July 6, 2016

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...

Researchers from William Jewell College and LSU were selected to have an experiment aboard the Blue Origin suborbital space flight on June 19. Researchers from left to right: Grace Bunton, Patrick Bunton, John Pojman and Erika Storvick. 

Chemistry professor conducts experiment in space

June 29, 2016

Over a century ago, scientists first asked a question — Can liquids that usually mix together be manipulated so they act like they can’t? On June 19, LSU chemistry professor John Pojman led...