Community
By partnering with Louisiana communities, LSU works to improve lives across the state.
Double LSUS Grad “KC” Kilpatrick Leverages Alma Mater to Help Kids in Crisis Nationwide
Geaux 4 Kids, a Louisiana non-profit based in Bossier City, works with state government and law enforcement in every parish to give “hope, home, and dignity in a bag” to the thousands of children who are taken into state custody each year due to criminal abuse and neglect.
Growing New Growers
Nicole Ryane Johnson used LSU AgCenter’s Grow Louisiana program to start a small farming revolution in Lafayette.
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Brings Science-Backed Program Into 32 Louisiana Schools, Preschools
Greaux Healthy is a comprehensive, new program supported by the state of Louisiana that translates 35 years of Pennington Biomedical research into practical tools to prevent and treat childhood obesity.
LSU and Ochsner Health Expand Partnership, Leadership in Dementia Care
Louisiana ranks fifth in the nation for Alzheimer’s disease, which mostly impacts older adults and is among the leading causes of death. But thanks to a unique partnership between LSU and Ochsner Health, dementia care is improving.
LSUA Spero Program Gives Hope, Jobs to Students with Intellectual Disabilities
In its fourth year, the Spero program at LSU Alexandria is transforming students who had difficulty communicating and completing basic tasks into thriving campus community members and Central Louisiana employees.
Meet Myron Lard: First to Investigate Soil Samples in Colfax, Louisiana, and East Palestine, Ohio
For the first time, Lard was able to make a new connection between environmentally persistent free radicals and cancer-causing dioxins using real-world samples.
Meet Julia Cazabon: First to Attend Medical School for Free on the LSU Health New Orleans Beer Scholarship
Julia Cazabon, a medical student at LSU Health New Orleans, is the first to receive full support through the Marcia and Billy Beer Endowed Scholarship Fund to attend all four years of medical school for free, thanks to a historic $7.5 million leadership gift—the largest ever to the LSU Health New Orleans Foundation.
LSU and Our Lady of the Lake Health Pioneer New Sepsis Test, Saving Lives, Cost
In hospitals nationwide, more people die from sepsis than from anything else. It’s more deadly than opioid overdoses, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. But since August, a new sepsis test based on LSU and Our Lady of the Lake Health research and advances in microfluidics is saving lives and cost at Our Lady of the Lake Health in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Fighting Hunger and Disease, One Strain of Rice at a Time
The LSU AgCenter is Louisiana rice farmers’ MVP, or most valued partner, in research and crop variety development. From creating a new market for jasmine rice, to producing varieties of rice that are better for diabetics and more sustainable and resilient to changes in the environment, LSU has been critical to the Louisiana rice industry for more than 100 years.
Calculating the Real Cost of Wind and Flood Risk in Louisiana
For the first time, research developed by LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse Research and Education Center has provided Louisiana with a realistic annual cost of natural hazards in the state—$5 billion by 2050.
Fighting for Their ‘Home Team’ on the Ground and in Cyberspace
LSU computer science seniors Easton Kling and Micah Champagne are quick to connect their military experience in the Louisiana National Guard and their work as LSU cyber analysts to protect higher education across Louisiana, “but here, it’s not life or death, and you’re not covered in sand all the time.”
Partnering to Double Louisiana’s Energy Workforce
LSU’s energy team, called FUEL, works to help double the state’s current energy workforce, including by enabling Louisiana’s community and technical colleges to invest in people and programs that are closely aligned with industry needs.
Baton Rouge Magnet High School Student Makes ‘Smart’ Appliances Wiser at LSU
Kaitlyn Smith is a student doing cybersecurity research in the College of Engineering and the Center for Computation & Technology at the flagship, but she’s not your average LSU student. In fact, she’s not an LSU student at all—she’s a high schooler with a passion for cybersecurity.
Cyber Smoothie, Anyone?
When a comprehensive research university operates a K-12 lab school on its flagship campus and there’s a 750,000-wide workforce gap for cybersecurity professionals in the U.S., graduate students and high school students come together for some unusual approaches to learning—and tastes.
Louisiana Enables Cyber Protection for All Universities Through LSU
With $7.5 million in support from the state legislature, all of higher education in Louisiana can now gain cyber protection—at no additional cost to the institution—through an industry-leading model developed at LSU.