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Cobb Island, Virginia Barrier Islands

Protecting Our Coastline

LSU oceanographer develops new model to better predict barrier island retreat.

The Early Childhood Education Institute

Early Childhood Education Expert Commits $5 Million to LSU Early Childhood Education Institute

LSU alumna Diane Goyette and husband Henry of Houston, Texas, have made a $5 million gift to benefit the LSU Early Childhood Education Institute.

Chunli Dai

LSU CEE Professor Researches Sea Level Rise

LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Chunli Dai recently received a $68,740 grant from the California Institute of Technology for her research on sea level rise, which could affect every person on the globe.

Anna Cohen-Rosenblum

LSU Health’s Cohen-Rosenblum 1st Female British Hip Society Traveling Fellow

Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the first female to be awarded the prestigious The Hip Society-British Hip Society Traveling Fellowship.

LSU, Ohio State and RPI Faculty Combine for Project on Computational Storage

LSU, Ohio State and RPI Faculty Combine for Project on Computational Storage

Faculty from LSU, The Ohio State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have each been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to solve the widening gap between computational processing and storage, thereby increasing high-speed data processing and enabling computational storage to address critical challenges in increasingly more data-centric applications.

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Q&A: LSU Archival Researcher gives expert advice on protecting irreplaceable items ahead of hurricane season

Q&A: LSU Archival Researcher gives expert advice on protecting irreplaceable items ahead of hurricane season

Lake Dredging

Work Begins in University Lakes

Restoration work has begun in University Lake near the intersection of East Lakeshore Drive and Stanford Avenue.

LSU and Fullstack Academy Launch Product Management Program

LSU and Fullstack Academy Launch Product Management Program

National tech education provider Fullstack Academy and Louisiana State University today announced the launch of a new product management bootcamp program. The curriculum is designed to train professionals on the skills needed to fill over 10,000 product management jobs in the Baton Rouge metro area in just 25 weeks.

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Shell Invests $27.5 Million in LSU to Establish Institute for Energy Innovation and Catalyze New Campus District Focused on Scientific Discovery

A $27.5 million gift from Shell USA, Inc., will establish the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation and enable construction of the LSU Our Lady of the Lake Interdisciplinary Science Building, the university's top capital priority.