BATON ROUGE – One of the most anticipated events of the fall semester will take place on Friday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the LSU Quadrangle and Exxon Quad as the LSU Fall Fest celebration welcomes back more than 30,000 new and returning students, faculty and staff to campus. The…
New water well part of effort to determine extent of potential natural gas presence in Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation James Welsh announced today that the Office of Conservation has obtained a landowner agreement allowing access to drill an observational water well between the Napoleonville Salt Dome and the…
Baton Rouge: The Louisiana Workforce Commission has been awarded a National Emergency Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to assist eligible unemployed individuals with temporary debris removal and cleanup jobs to help communities recover from Hurricane Isaac. “This funding will go a long way to further enhance private, parish and state cleanup efforts that…
Pennington Biomedical Research Center to Lead Effort for Underserved Population BATON ROUGE, LA – A nearly $20 million, five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support biomedical research was announced today by eight higher education academic, research, and health care delivery institutions in Louisiana. From Left to Right: Frank Opelka, M.D., LSU System Executive Vice…
BATON ROUGE – W. David Constant has been named head of the LSU Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, a joint position shared between the LSU AgCenter and the LSUCollege of Engineering. Constant, who was most recently dean of the LSU Graduate School, has been on the LSU faculty since 1984. He holds the Humphreys T. Turner…
BATON ROUGE – LSU Career Services will host the LSU Career Expo Sept. 11 and 12 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The Business, Liberal Arts & Grad Admissions Expo will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 11, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Engineering, Science, Technology &…
BATON ROUGE – As part of the LSU Public Administration Institute’s 40th Anniversary Celebration, former LSU Chancellor and current NCAA President Mark Emmert will speak in The Rotunda of the Business Education Complex, the home of the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business. This special event will begin at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept.…
BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal held a Unified Command Group meeting Wednesday and outlined the state’s response to Isaac. Note: Facts and figures below are current as of today’s Unified Command Group Meeting. These numbers change throughout each day. Please contact the Joint Information Center (225-358-5361) to receive updated information. UPDATES: Declarations/Waivers: The Environmental Protection…
BATON ROUGE – A policy believed to be unique in major college sports that would ensure that the academic mission of LSU would share in the financial success of the LSU athletics program will be considered Friday, Sept. 7, by the LSU Board of Supervisors. The LSU Athletics Fund Transfer Policy would formalize an…
BATON ROUGE – This summer, Russell L. Carson, associate professor in the LSU College of Human Sciences & Education’s School of Kinesiology, conducted the first three of four Director of Physical Activity, or DPA, certification workshops for K-12 physical educators in the state of Louisiana. These workshops were conducted as part of a research…
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