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LSU Celebrates 298th Commencement Exercises
Join us in congratulating the more than 4,000 students graduating from LSU this week!
LSU's 298th commencement exercises mark our sixth consecutive year of record-breaking graduating classes.
I hope you'll join me in congratulating our new alumni. We are all so proud of our
graduates and so excited to see what they do in the next chapters of their lives.
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LSU Students Earn Recognition
LSU student Jack Green has been named a 2019 Udall Scholar in the environment category, earning a $7,000 scholarship. Green is an Ogden Honors College student majoring
in applied coastal environmental science and political science, with a concentration
in public policy. Green has become only the second LSU student to win the Udall Scholarship
two years consecutively, having received the prestigious award in 2018 as well. This
outstanding student was also named a 2019 Truman Scholarship finalist.
LSU Law students Briana Falcon and Joe Heaton finished first among 80 teams at the
Lefkowitz National Trademark Law Moot Court Competition, claiming the national championship at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit in Washington, D.C.
Three LSU students received the highly prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for recognizing top-performing undergraduate students in STEM
disciplines.
LSU student journalists separated themselves from their peers in a big way, winning more awards than any other school in the Region 12 Society of Professional Journalists competition and earning a total
of 17 first place or finalist finishes.
LSU Student Media's news service, The Reveille, also received praise from the Associated
Press Media Editors. The Reveille won first place for best website, sports breaking news, enterprise/investigative reporting, and layout/design.
Three LSU engineering students were recently announced as recipients of the highly
respected 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, while 10 more current and past students received honorable mentions.
Thirty-seven LSU student-athletes from the men's and women's basketball teams, gymnastics
team, and men's and women's swimming & diving teams were named to the 2018-19 Winter SEC Academics Honor Roll.
LSU Gives Back
Thank you to the 2,743 donors that helped LSU to far surpass our goal of 1,860 donors
and raise a total of $869,730 for the inaugural LSU Giving Day! Tigers from everywhere
came together on April 30 to rally behind LSU students, faculty, and staff. Let's
continue show the world what fierce can do. Please learn how you can get involved
in LSU's historic advancement campaign: Fierce For The Future.
Four hundred students participated in the 20 consecutive hours long Dance Marathon at LSU, raising $187,789.01 for the new Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. Since
the first Dance Marathon at LSU in 2013, students have raised more than $1,000,000
for the new facility, which is scheduled to open this October.
A class from the Department of Marketing at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business
designed and executed an exceptional donation campaign for the Greater Baton Rouge
Food Bank, collecting 2,838 pounds of food.
LSU Softball coach Beth Torina and the Geaux Teal foundation hosted the seventh annual
Geaux Teal Ovarian Cancer Awareness Walk this past month, setting record numbers with 1,080 walkers and raising $87,198.32.
LSU Cultivates Leadership
LSU alumni Ava Leavell Haymon and Cordell Haymon of Baton Rouge have made a historic donation of $1.2 million to the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Their donation will fund an endowed chair in music therapy and establish the first
music therapy program at a Louisiana public university.
The university welcomed back alumnus Scott Woodward as the 10th athletics director in school history. Woodward, a 1985 political science graduate, previously served as LSU's director
of external affairs from 2000-2004.
LSU Vice Provost for Diversity Dereck J. Rovaris Sr. has been named president of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, or AABHE. AABHE is the premier organization to drive leadership, development, access,
and vital issues concerning Blacks in higher education.
Facebook's Global Chief Marketing Officer Antonio Lucio graduated from LSU in 1981. Lucio has served in this position since
2018 and is responsible for marketing not only the Facebook app but also Instagram,
WhatsApp, and Messenger. Nearly 2.7 billion people use these apps every day.
LSU Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Wewei Xie was recognized as one of
the top 20 inorganic chemistry professors in the U.S. and was named as a fellow to improve the nation's undergraduate education in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics.
LSU ornithologist and doctoral candidate Subir B. Shakya led a team of researchers
in Borneo, where they discovered a new species of bird.
LSU Faculty Demonstrate Expertise
LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Professor Gabriela González has been named the
2019 SEC Professor of the Year. Dr. González was also a leader for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
team that won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics after proving predictions made by Albert Einstein.
Linda Hooper-Bùi, a professor of environmental sciences for LSU’s College of the Coast
& Environment, was announced as one of six honorees to be recognized with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s 2019 Coastal Stewardship Award.
The American Ornithological honored LSU's School of Renewable Natural Resources Lee
F. Mason Professor of Conservation Biology Phil Stouffer with the 2019 Peter R. Stettenheim Service Award.
The Louisiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Association named LSU AgCenter nutrition
agent Elizabeth Martin as the 2019 Young Dietitian of the Year.
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