On Friday, Aug. 7, LSU honored more than 600 spring graduates with a virtual graduation celebration, and during the ceremony, 609 degrees were conferred, including seven degrees awarded to LSU employees.

The bottom area of low oxygen in Louisiana coastal waters west of the Mississippi River, commonly known as the "Dead Zone," was mapped at a much smaller-than-average size this summer.

On Friday, Aug. 7, LSU will honor more than 500 summer graduates with a virtual graduation celebration. Join the graduation watch party on the LSU Facebook page at 10 a.m. CDT to wish the newest class of proud Tiger alumni congratulations and appreciation for their hard work and continued determination through trying times.

Kevin Benham, assistant professor of landscape architecture, has been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize 2020–21 fellowship to advance his research on transhumance.

The Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership (CCELL), in conjunction with LSU Campus Life, are pleased to announce that one student will graduate with the Engaged Citizen distinction for Summer 2020.

LSU Professors Stephania Cormier, a respiratory immunologist, and Rebecca Christofferson, an emerging viruses expert, have developed a saliva-based test to help track COVID-19 in K-12 school children and teachers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This initiative was recently mentioned at congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. where Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services Admiral Brett Giroir, MD testified that such programs are part of the robust surveillance system needed to track COVID-19.

The LSU National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education has assumed leadership of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, one of the federal government's largest emergency response training entities.

The LSU Board of Supervisors has selected 18 new ideas to support through its Leverage Innovation for Technology Transfer, or LIFT2, grants.

APPA, previously known as the Association of Physical Plant Administrators, is pleased to announce that LSU is the recipient of APPA's 2020 Sustainability Innovation Award.