Louisiana State University sedimentary geologist Dr. Samuel Bentley has secured a $3.8 million grant to co-lead a 15-member consortium known as The Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative. Dubbed MissDelta, the $22 million project will actively study underwater mudslides threatening energy infrastructure. Its primary objectives include predicting the future of the Mississippi Delta, addressing socio-economic concerns, fostering workforce diversity, and tackling environmental challenges in the region for the next century.

LSU mathematics senior Lillian Powell and her advisor Dr. James Madden are tackling the post-game traffic congestion after LSU football games using math.

LSU College of Science welcomes new members to our science community this fall.

The LSU College of Science is among the select group of 14 universities that received the prestigious Beckman Scholars Award in 2023. The program provides a unique opportunity for exceptionally talented undergraduate students to engage in cutting-edge research projects under the guidance of renowned faculty mentors for two summers and one academic year.

Boyd Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gabriela González comments on a new gravitational wave discovery in an NPR story.

The research by a group of LSU researchers in collaboration with colleagues from Indiana University and New York is featured on the June cover of Nature Sustainability.

The lab run by top LSU geneticist Mark Batzer, which conducts research on the fluidity of species and the spread of genetic elements, has garnered attention from top research journals over the years, including 16 cover stories since 2002.

LSU Biological Sciences PhD student Melanie Kimball is one of 110 doctoral students in the USA and Canada selected to receive a ScholarMelanie Kimball Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to helping women pursue educational goals by providing scholarships, awards, and loans.

The LSU Science Residential College started a gardening club and have built pollinator garden the in the Horseshoe community that have taught students environmental sustainability as well as created an oasis for monarch butterflies.

An LSU research team led by Mark Batzer, a geneticist, along with 30 collaborators around the world present new research in the journal Science on surprising genetic diversity as well as commonality among six very different-looking species of African baboons.

An interdisciplinary team of LSU researchers were awarded $800K from the U.S. Department of Energy for their project that merges nuclear theory with quantum theoretical and experimental physics.

Samantha Rutledge, a second-year PhD student in Biological Sciences, was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Cale Locicero, an Ogden Honors College senior studying chemistry at LSU, was named a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or NSF GRFP, award recipient for 2023.

LSU chemistry professor John Pojman guided the formulation of a now patent-pending wild pig bait, urgently needed by Louisiana’s farmers to help curb the state’s ‘pigdemic,’ with the animal population nearing 1 million.

Just one year after graduating with her PhD in Physics from LSU, Dr. Michelle Lollie is back at the LSU College of Science Commencement Ceremony as our commencement speaker for Spring 2023, addressing the largest graduating class in the college's history.

Three College of Science seniors have earned the Engaged Citizen distinction for Spring 2023. The program is led by the Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership (CCELL), in conjunction with LSU Campus Life.

College of Science's Justin Wilson, Christine Lattin, Adam Forte, and Matthew Chambers are four of the six LSU faculty members who received NSF CAREER awards for 2023.

HBO's popular tv show "The Last of Us" is a post-apocalyptic drama about a fungus that turns humans into zombies. LSU Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, Laura Lagomarsino and LSU Museum of Natural Science PhD student Spenser Babb-Biernacki tell us about real life fungal parasites and what the show got right and what the show got wrong.

May 2022 graduate Sanaa Alam was one of 85 students selected out of 3,733 eligible applications as a 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program.