LSU Research

09/01/2026

LSU is co-leading a new $4 million National Science Foundation Focused EPSCoR Collaboration award that connects Louisiana’s deltaic wetlands with Rhode Island’s salt marshes to build tools for coastal planning that work in both—and, the team hopes, in coastal systems nationwide.

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08/24/2026

research in The New York Times! Read all about Cassandra Glaspie’s and Nancy “Hypoxia Queen” Rabalais’s relentless work to map the Gulf dead zone, which threatens marine life and Louisiana’s $2.4 billion seafood industry.

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In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast.

08/19/2026

In January, we signed a research partnership agreement with Argonne National Laboratory. In April, ANL sent a large group to LSU in Baton Rouge to tour the flagship campus, connect experts, and explore expanded collaboration. Today, it’s our turn—

Professors George Xue LSU College of the Coast & Environment, Barbara Dutrow, Jeff Blackmon, and Phil Sprunger LSU College of Science, Assistant Professors Anurag Mandalika, Anthony Engler, and Ope Owoyele LSU College of Engineering, Directors John Vickers, Oliver Dashbach LSU Center for Computation & Technology, and Greg Upton are in Illinois with Vice Chancellor of Research Robert Twilley and Associate Vice Chancellor John Flake to advance energy, manufacturing, and frontier science. Geaux Tigers!

08/19/2026

LSU’s Clint Willson has been selected for a new leadership role to help coordinate the university’s research related to water and coast, which heavily impacts life in Louisiana and other research areas, including energy.

“The questions that come to us from agencies, industry, and communities down the bayou or along the river don’t arrive sorted by discipline. Our answers must come from a combination of experts who know whether a channel will silt in, whether a marsh will hold, or whether an intake will go salty. It often takes a modeler, a sedimentologist, a wetland scientist, a designer, and a Sea Grant agent who knows the parish and the people to provide the best answers, and we have all of them at LSU. My job is to bring them together.”

Learn more through the link in comments.

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08/18/2026

From supernovae to smart parking 💫 🚗

Join us for the next LSU Science Café featuring Dr. Manos Chatzopoulos, associate professor in the LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Chatzopoulos will share how the skills he developed as a computational astrophysicist helped him launch and scale ParkZen, an AI-driven smart parking technology company.

Learn how scientific problem-solving can open unexpected paths beyond the laboratory.

📅 Tuesday, August 25, 2026
5-7 PM
📍 Pastime Restaurant

Presented by LSU ORED

Learn more: https://www.lsu.edu/research/events/science_cafe/index.php

08/14/2026

EdTech highlights LSU's work to make human-robot collaboration safer and more data-rich, including the use of digital twins and virtual reality technologies.

“We have an LED wall here that’s 25 feet by 12 feet that allows us to make quite a large window into the digital world.”—Jason Jamerson, Director of the XR Studio and Associate Professor of Virtual Production and Immersive Media at LSU

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2026/08/virtual-tech-tools-fuel-higher-ed-robotics-research

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Some institutions provide human and robot collaboration courses to position students to meet future workforce needs.

08/06/2026

Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that empty space isn't truly empty.

Using NASA's IXPE mission to study a magnetar more than 13,000 light-years away, researchers—including LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy Michela Negro—confirmed a nearly 90-year-old prediction of quantum physics.

Read more: https://www.lsu.edu/science/news/science-next/2026/08/vaccum-is-not-empty.php

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07/30/2026

Meet Joshua McCain, an LSU computer science PhD student interning at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. On National Intern Day, we're proud to celebrate the Tigers gaining real-world experience while making our world a better place. Geaux Tigers! 🐯💜

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07/30/2026

Meet Aidan O’Donnell, an LSU computer science PhD student interning at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory this summer. He combines physics and AI to enable mobile detection of radioactive and nuclear threats in the wild. Learn more at the link in comments.

Happy National Intern Day! 💜

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07/30/2026

Twenty-two graduate and advanced undergraduate students representing nine universities worked as interns in the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio (CEDS) collaborative studio at the Water Campus in Baton Rouge this summer. They conducted field research in South Louisiana and the northern Gulf Coast under the cover of Louisiana Sea Grant caps. Split into four multi-disciplinary teams, the summer interns looked at sites along the Gulf of America, conducted research and developed ecosystem design approaches using nature-based solutions to solve challenges associated with living and working in dynamic coastal landscapes. All their work was real-world site specific, looking at challenges in Slidell, Plaquemines Parish, Port Fourchon and Biloxi, MS.