Louisiana Economic Development has awarded nearly $200,000 from the state's Entertainment Development Fund to the film and television program at Louisiana State University to help grow the talent pipeline for the state's film production workforce.

The National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to only two university consortia to support nuclear security and nonproliferation. LSU researchers will work with colleagues at 15 universities and eight national labs to develop AI models to protect the nation from nuclear threats while training a new generation of data science, cyber and AI experts.