Community
By partnering with Louisiana communities, LSU works to improve lives across the state.
LSU’s Coastal Roots Program Helps 26,000 School Kids Fight Louisiana Land Loss
Investing in education and restoration efforts with elementary, middle, and high school youth.
LSU Helps Homeowners Tackle the True Cost of Flooding
LSU scholars in construction management, oceanography and coastal sciences, sociology, and psychology are working to gather data on the economic, equity, and emotional aspects of living in an increasingly flood-prone place, and provide homeowners with better guidance.
Lingering Pandemic + Another Hurricane? LSU Helps Coastal Communities Prepare
In the very first study to look at impacts of the ongoing pandemic on hurricane preparedness and resilience in Louisiana, researchers at LSU Health New Orleans partnered with more than two dozen community leaders to help validate facts on the ground and turn observations into actionable data.
Sustainability through Diversity: Global Non-Profit Partners with LSU Manship
When the Louisiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization with more than one million members and the largest such non-profit in the U.S., realized they needed more diverse messaging—and messengers—to reach more people in local communities, they turned to the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication.
More than 100 LSU Online Programs Help Job Seekers and Employers Adapt to Change
Social worker Jo Anna Fisher’s career did not skip a beat, despite the pandemic and loss of a family member. LSU now offers more than 100 programs online.
Turning LSUA STEM Majors into STEM Teachers in Central Louisiana High Schools
In a historic win for LSU of Alexandria (LSUA) and career prospects in central Louisiana, a collaborative faculty team has received $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to help LSUA students become highly effective biology, chemistry, and math teachers in high-need high schools after they graduate.
LSU Educates Health Care Providers Specifically for Rural Areas
Across the state, LSU is working to provide more and better healthcare for rural residents. From New Orleans to Shreveport, several university programs educate care providers specifically to help fight health disparities.
LSU Shreveport Cyber Collaboratory Makes New Partners
Through partnerships between the university and Louisiana Economic Development, the City of Shreveport, local K-12 schools, the Air Force, and industry—including small businesses—students like Ricard are starting to see what it actually means to boost high-tech innovation in northwestern Louisiana.
Dr. Jeffrey Kuo: From LSU Purple and Gold to Ochsner Blue (and Saints Black and Gold)
From when he received his Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from LSU in 2000 and his MD from LSU Health New Orleans in 2004, Dr. Jeffrey Kuo has been busy.
Innovation in Radiation Research Takes LSU Student from Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center to SpaceX
Jared Taylor was planning on becoming a medical doctor to help treat people with cancer, but now finds himself almost literally in space, working on solutions to shield astronauts from dangerous radiation.
Expanding Opportunities for All: Science and Engineering Careers
Through at least 20 programs that often reach beyond campus borders into local communities and schools, all the way from kindergarten through college and into professional life, almost a thousand minority students in Louisiana are connected with STEM resources and research each year on the LSU campus.
LSU Helps Louisiana Decrease Incarceration, Increase Workforce, Save >$150 Million Annually
LSU has helped lower the Louisiana prison population by almost one-fourth in three years.
LSU Eunice Identified as Key Driver of Workforce and Entrepreneur Development in Rural Communities
Achieving the Dream, a nationwide network of more than 300 community colleges, has selected seven schools it regards as “workforce and economic development engines” in rural communities. Felicity Carrier is an LSU Eunice entrepreneur.
LSU AgCenter’s FFA Youth Organization Laid Groundwork for Careers in Medicine
Formerly known as Future Farmers of America, the FFA program prepares members for leadership and careers in science, business, and agricultural technology.
Supporting Local Food Entrepreneurs
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit and hurricanes Laura and Delta then devastated culinary businesses in the southwestern part of the state, the LSU AgCenter Food Incubator in Baton Rouge quickly increased their number of tenants.