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Order of Thor medal

Military Cyber Professionals Association to Award LSU Professor Order of Thor Medal

LSU cybersecurity professor Ibrahim “Abe” Baggili is among an elite group of individuals selected by the Military Cyber Professionals Association to receive the prestigious Order of Thor medal this year.

LSU ME Professor Designs Non-Metal Battery To Replace Lithium Battery

LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Designs Non-Metal Battery To Replace Lithium Battery

As the demand for electric vehicles, cell phones, and computers continues to grow, so does the demand for lithium used in lithium-ion batteries. While this soft, alkali metal known as “white gold” is abundant in certain countries, the mining process and safety issues are of concern to researchers. One such researcher is LSU Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Ying Wang, who is using a Board of Regents grant to design a non-metal rechargeable battery that could one day replace lithium batteries on Earth and in space.

Matt Lee

LSU Names Matt Lee Vice President for Agriculture and Dean of the College of Agriculture

LSU has named Matt Lee as Vice President for Agriculture and Dean of the College of Agriculture. Lee has been serving as the Interim Vice President and Dean since August 2022.

WFL Energy

Enabling Energy Development through Demonstration

Last year’s catalytic $5 million investment by the state in carbon capture and hydrogen technology research and development at LSU was at the forefront of a cascade of commitments all aimed to elevate the ongoing energy transition for Louisiana and the nation.

Laura Choate

Laura Choate Named Director of the Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education

The LSU College of Human Sciences & Education named Laura Hensley Choate, currently the interim director of the LSU Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education, as the next director of the school. Choate will begin this role on April 1.

LSU Giving Day 2023 is March 29, Aims for 5,000 Donors by Midnight

LSU Giving Day 2023 is March 29, Aims for 5,000 Donors by Midnight

5th Annual Virtual Event is Co-hosted by Seven LSU Campuses

Can Your Thoughts on Body Fat Predict/Impact Your Work Performance? LSU Researcher Explains

Can Your Thoughts on Body Fat Predict/Impact Your Work Performance? LSU Researcher Explains

In his recent article, “Do These Jeans Make Me Feel Fat? Exploring Subjective Fatness, its Workplace Outcomes, and Rethinking the Role of Subjectivity in the Stigmatization Process,” published by Personnel Psychology, Rucks Department of Management Assistant Professor Michael Johnson and co-authors draw on stigma theory, and integrate it with medical research, to explore the workplace implications of subjective fatness, or how big one feels.

LSU Joins LDOE for STEM Micro-Credentialing Project

LSU Joins Louisiana Department of Education for STEM Micro-Credentialing Project

With STEM learning gaining speed, it’s more important than ever for Louisiana to provide its high school educators the opportunity to earn micro-credentials in order to teach STEM subjects to their students. The $4 million, five-year Education Innovation and Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Improving Pre-Engineering and Computer Science Education through Micro-Credentialing, is a collaboration among LSU, the Louisiana Department of Education, BloomBoard Inc., and RAND Corporation that involves the development, implementation, and testing of a set of micro-credentials designed to help teachers demonstrate proficiency in STEM competencies.

Gamma-ray burst

NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst

LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Eric Burns led the analysis of 7,000 gamma-ray bursts to establish how frequently this brightest of all time, or BOAT, event may occur. The answer: once every 10,000 years

WFL Solving Cancer, Together

Solving Cancer, Together

With investment by the state, LSU is attracting and supporting top research talent to solve some of the biggest challenges in cancer care for patients and families, starting with Louisianans.