October 24, 2022BATON ROUGE, LA - Though October is recognized nationally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, LSU faculty and students are working every month to help combat the potentially fatal disease that has been projected to affect nearly 340,000 Americans this year.

Rebecca Hirschhorn, PhD, co-authors the National Athletic Trainers' Association's updated position statement on the development and implementation of emergency action plans in sports, bringing a transformative approach to Sports Emergency Action Plans.

Amanda Benson, PhD, LAT, ATC, from LSU Kinesiology, was honored with the Bob and Lynn Caruthers Service Award by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).

LSU's Medical Physics and Health Physics Program has announced Hunter Meyer as the 2025 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.

Louisiana State University Astrophysicists Eric Burns and Michela Negro have been awarded a 2025 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize by the European Physical Society as part of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) science teams, for revolutionizing the field of gamma-ray astronomy and for laying the foundations of modern multi-messenger astrophysics. This top prize in high-energy physics was formally presented at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Marseille, France, last week.

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.

PhD student DeKeitra Griffin was honored with an invitation to the White House for the Enhancing the Lives of People with HIV: A Quality of Life Symposium on December 5, 2024

LSU School of Social Work hosted its 2024 conference Impact & Innovation: An Integrative Approach to Holistic Health on October 17-18, 2024