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LSU NCBRT/ACE to Deliver Campus Emergency Preparedness Course to Nation’s HBCUs

LSU NCBRT/ACE to Deliver Campus Emergency Preparedness Course to Nation’s HBCUs

The United States has over one hundred Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 19 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These schools serve more than 300 thousand students each year. In the first few months of 2022, over one third of the nation’s HBCUs received one or more bomb threats to their campuses.

Ogden Honors College Graduation

LSU Ogden Honors College Recognizes Spring Graduates

The LSU Ogden Honors College recognized outstanding seniors during the Ogden Honors College spring 2022 graduation ceremony on Thursday, May 19.

Neighborhood Arts Project

Neighborhood Arts Project Summer Dates with LSU Museum of Art

LSU Museum of Art's Neighborhood Arts Project, which provides free art activities in East Baton Rouge Parish under pop-up tents at sites, is returning this summer. At sites listed in the summer schedule below, LSU MOA will set up tents for families and children to stop by and create art.

App Boosts Preschoolers’ Motor Skills

App Boosts Preschoolers’ Motor Skills

Preventing childhood obesity could soon take a major “hop” forward with an app that teaches kids to do just that, and to skip, run and throw a ball.

Mario Moore: Responding to History Opens July 14 at LSU Museum of Art

Mario Moore: Responding to History Opens July 14 at LSU Museum of Art

LSU MOA is pleased to present Mario Moore: Responding to History. Featuring two paintings and two drawings, the showing provides an in-depth look at Moore’s nuanced artwork During and After the Battle.

Blurring Boundaries is on View at LSU Museum of Art July 14–October 23, 2022

Blurring Boundaries is on View at LSU Museum of Art July 14–October 23, 2022

An awe-inspiring celebration of an intergenerational group of artists—one that is both comprehensive and long overdue—Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present highlights the indelible ways in which the women of American Abstract Artists have, for more than eighty years, shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.

Nedra Davis Hains Promoted to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art

Nedra Davis Hains Promoted to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art

LSU Museum of Art is pleased to announce Nedra Davis Hains’ promotion to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art. Nedra Davis Hains is a key member of the senior leadership team of LSU MOA, charged with maintaining the museum’s day-to-day business operations, development and external affairs efforts, and advancing its strategic goals.

LSU Museum of Art Appoints New Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte

LSU Museum of Art Appoints New Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte

The LSU Museum of Art is excited to announce Michelle Schulte as the new Senior Curator and Director of Programming at the museum as of April 2022.

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LSU Shreveport, Health Shreveport Public Health Master's Program Ranked 4th Nationally by Fortune Magazine

LSU Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between LSUS and LSU Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2022 rankings, which cited the program's high retention rates.

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Army Tapped LSU to Understand Deltaic Change, Future-Proof U.S. National Defense

When the U.S. Army needed to understand how climate change will affect the so-called “critical zone”—the thin land surface layer comprised of vegetation, soils, and sediments—to improve their own planning and secure people, equipment, and infrastructure, they turned to LSU.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Pennington, LSU Health New Orleans Part of National Study to Create Personalized-Nutrition Algorithm

Pennington Biomedical, in partnership with LSU Health New Orleans, is taking part in a study using machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions.

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Protecting Port Fourchon, Louisiana’s Energy Industry Hub

LSU scientists are learning how to manage sediment to prevent land loss and improve hurricane preparedness in Louisiana's southernmost port, a key place for the U.S. energy industry, but also one of the nation's most vulnerable places.

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LSU Helps Flood-Prone Tangipahoa Parish Rise to Challenges

In the wake of 2016 floods, which devastated Tangipahoa Parish and 20 other South Louisiana parishes, the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and LSU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering began collaborating with local government and communities to set Tangipahoa Parish on a path toward resilience.

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Protecting House and Home: Louisiana’s Number-One Key to Resilience

LSU researchers, from coastal scientists and engineers to sociologists and psychologists, are working to protect Louisiana residents and homeowners from the potentially devastating impacts of flooding.

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Harnessing a Tweet Storm: Using Fairness-aware Artificial Intelligence and Social Media to Improve Hurricane Resilience, and More

How we can use artificial intelligence for social good? Artificial intelligence, or AI, can help us make decisions, but one of the biggest concerns is the bias problem.