BATON ROUGE, LA - Though Baton Rouge native Malana Fuentes grew up with the cards stacked against her, she has come out on the other side, hoping to inspire younger generations, including her own kids, that they can do it all if they want it badly enough.

November 4, 2024BATON ROUGE, LA - Over the course of the last year, the LSU Division of Computer Science (CS) and Engineering has bolstered its faculty ranks with nearly a dozen talented academics and researchers with a wide breadth of expertise. It's a development indicative of a rapidly-growing major in the College of Engineering and a priority area for the university as a whole.

Maggie Mac Neil, Olympic swimmer and LSU sports management alumna, announced her plans to retire from competitive swimming on September 26th, 2024. Mac Neil will be joining the inaugural advisory board for the LSU Women's Sport and Health Initiative in the College of Human Sciences and Education's School of Kinesiology.

LSU physics graduate student Jacob Goudeau has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award in response to the SCGSR program's 2023 Solicitation 2 cycle.

LSU's Medical Physics and Health Physics Program has announced Maxwell Cole as the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Smith Superior Graduate Student Scholarship. Established from the estate of the late Dr. Charles M. Smith of Sulphur, Louisiana, the scholarship represents Dr. Smith's commitment to significantly enhance medical physics education and research programs by supporting graduate students to ensure a continued pipeline of highly qualified medical physicists.

The LSU Museum of Natural Science is proud to announce the arrival of India-based ornithologist Dr. Ashish Jha to the Mason Lab for a nine-month Fulbright Fellowship.

Samantha Rutledge, LSU graduate student, awarded NSF GRFP.

According to the Academy of Human Resource Development, "The HRD Scholar Hall of Fame Award is presented to scholars in human resource development and related disciplines who have made enduring contributions to the Academy's mission of Leading Human Resource Development through Research." Upon reflecting on his work, service, and devotion, it comes at no surprise that Professor Emeritus Ed Holton, EdD, has been selected for the AHRD Scholar Hall of Fame Award.

Sunyoung Park, PhD, associate professor, is one of six LSU faculty members named a Rainmaker for Research and Creative Activity. Rainmakers are faculty members who balance their teaching and research responsibilities while extending the impact of their work to the world beyond academia.

LSU HARC received a second round of funding to continue their work in training dementia care workers in rural areas. Learn more about the group's efforts and hopes for the project.

LSU School of Social Work PhD Student Kennesha Smith has been selected to participate in a Professional Development Training Series on Poverty and Economic Mobility Research, hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty.