November 9, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana has more sunny days than the national average, so why not put all of that summer heat to good use? Realizing the potential to harness the Sun's energy, LSU Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management Assistant Professor Arup Bhattacharya is researching solar power farming in the state thanks to a $94,000 grant from the Institute for Energy Innovations.

October 31, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Oftentimes, when a state or region's power grid is discussed, the words innovation, resilience, reliability, etc., are mentioned. But there's another equally important term that is the focus of a research project by LSU Electrical Engineering and LSU Sociology faculty--equity.

October 23, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - One critique about electric vehicles (EV) is the lengthy charging times. Fast-charging stations can overcome this issue. However, installing them imposes an additional load on the electric power grid. For instance, when EV owners choose to charge their vehicle may coincide with peak load times for the grid. This can result in a strain on the grid and eventually, power outages and stability issues.

October 17, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In the winter of 2019, the National Football League hosted its Helmet Challenge Symposium in Youngstown, Ohio, bringing together 300 engineers, manufacturing experts, and innovators from across the country. The goal of that event was to foster collaboration among an array of experts in various fields, with the desired outcome being a safer football helmet.

October 16, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Tong Gao, a postdoctoral associate in the LSU Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, recently received a Louisiana Materials Design Alliance, or LAMDA, Seed Track 1C Postdoctoral Research Award.

October 6, 2023BATON ROUGE - In the quest to build more disaster resilient communities, good data is a powerful tool. But while information on everything from climate to cell phone usage is available today, finding the right data in a usable format presents an obstacle for many researchers.

October 4, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In a recently published paper in Angewandte Chemie, LSU Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Kunlun Ding and his research group detail a new concept for recycling plastic waste.

October 4, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Industrial Engineering graduate student Min Pun is braving the Texas heat while he interns at Tesla's Gigafactory Texas in Austin this fall. Pun, who is originally from Nepal, has worked for Tesla before and jumped at the chance to have an internship there again.

September 29, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU is one of several institutions that will be partnering soon with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Microsoft Corp., and Micron Technology to make computational chemistry broadly available to applied researchers and industrial users.

September 21, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Researchers from LSU's Cain Department of Chemical Engineering and Tulane University's Biomedical Engineering Department synthesized sub-100 nm gold nanoshells, i.e., particles with silica cores covered by a thin gold shell, and used them to improve the penetration depth of photoacoustic imaging. Gold nanoshells are promising candidates for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy, but synthetic challenges have limited their diameters to greater than 100 nm for more than 20 years. LSU chemical engineers synthesized 62 nm nanoshells and collaborated with Tulane biomedical engineers to demonstrate a 50% improvement in the photoacoustic imaging depth compared to current state-of-the-art nanoshells.

September 20, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - It may be taken for granted on a daily basis, but a worldwide increase in spectrum usage has made spectrum sharing an important economic topic. At the heart of that topic is ensuring that spectrum management mechanisms are efficient, fair, and maintain user privacy.

September 19, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - There are currently more than 4,500 orphan oil wells in Louisiana, meaning oil companies have abandoned them for one reason or another, namely for not making money. Nearly 450 of these wells were tagged "orphan" in 1994, which means they have been dormant and possibly leaking methane gas for nearly 30 years.

September 14, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor Olufemi Olorode recently received a $525,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences program to research carbon dioxide storage in gas hydrates using coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD).

September 13, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Federated learning is a technique that has gained attention for its potential to improve privacy, security, and efficiency in various sectors. At times, in order to improve the quality and robustness of this technique, it is subject to periods of "critical learning." However, it is during these periods that outside agents have an opportunity to launch precise and damaging attacks.

September 6, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - While Louisianans have been sweating outside or hibernating indoors this summer, LSU Industrial Engineering junior Ana Alvarado was cooling off in Argentina during her three-month internship as part of the Argentina Business Program.

August 30, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management PhD candidate Shashank Muley was recently recognized as an SEC Emerging Scholar. The SEC Emerging Scholars Program was created to offer graduate students enrolled in terminal degree programs at member institutions a pathway to prepare for tenure-stream positions in higher education. The SEC sees a strategic advantage in sharing information that will contribute to this shared goal and encourages graduates to seek positions within SEC institutions.

August 30, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Researchers in LSU's Cain Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have developed an energy-efficient method for rapidly removing pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants from natural waters, like the Mississippi River. The result could help reduce the carbon footprint of reclaiming and reusing water in drought-prone areas.

August 29, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - A team of LSU researchers from electrical and computer engineering and physics was recently awarded nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project to develop quantum computing-inspired algorithms that will address optimization problems appearing in various critical infrastructure systems, including power systems.

August 23, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In five years' time, LSU Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Jimmy Lawrence's current project may enable patients to benefit from metal-free MRI contrast agents that are safer, more reliable, and chemically versatile. Indeed, these new contrast agents could prove crucial for the diagnosis and monitoring of damaged blood vessels, small tumors, and abnormal tissues.

August 15, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - On a hot July morning, LSU Mechanical Engineering sophomores Liam Songné and Carter Mims find shade under a hovering old oak tree while they work on a vintage car in the driveway. Most people collect old cars to restore them, but these students are doing quite the opposite. They are dismantling an already-sparse 1966 Dodge Coronet to race as part of the newly-formed Lemons Racing Club at LSU.