LSU Law, in partnership with the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to review select cases of incarcerated people who have claims of innocence. The two-year grant establishes the Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center — the first clinic of its kind at a Louisiana law school — in which LSU Law students will review cases to identify those that may benefit from DNA testing.

The pandemic may have halted the world, but it did not stop LSU Engineering students from continuing their cancer research that could one day save lives. Under the supervision of LSU Biological Engineering Assistant Professor Elizabeth Martin and LSU Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Adam Melvin, two groups of students are conducting research to see how cancer cells multiply and “convince” healthy cells to join them.

LSU Assistant Professor Jeffery Chancellor’s research looks to help answer questions about astronaut health and performance during future long-duration missions beyond low-Earth orbit.

New LSU research shows animal patterns are changing in the absence of landscape change, which signals a sobering warning that simply preserving forests will not maintain rainforest biodiversity.

LSU has named Jared Llorens as the dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Llorens was appointed as interim dean in July 2020 after the initial search for the next dean was paused earlier this year due to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic.

The LSU Office of Academic Affairs has named Samba Dieng as the new senior internationalization officer and executive director.

LSU Online & Continuing Education recently launched the LSU DevOps Engineer Certificate program for individuals looking to learn the spectrum of skills and tools in DevOps for their next career move

John Maxwell Hamilton's highly acclaimed new book on the history of American propaganda is now available at LSUPress.org.

A $6 million gift to benefit the LSU College of Engineering will expand the college's highly successful Brookshire Scholars program. The gift will extend the impact of the S & B Engineers and Constructors Scholarship well beyond the more than 1,300 students who have been named Brookshire Scholars since the scholarship was established in 2010.