LSU Boyd Professor of Physics Gabriela González has been newly elected as a 2021 General Councilor of the American Physical Society.

LSU Astronomer Investigates Rogue Planets to Understand Galaxy Evolution

LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Megan Chesal and undergraduate Haley Pellegrin have been granted Louisiana Space Grant student research awards.

LSU Associate Professor of Physics Mark M. Wilde and his collaborator have solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost—a way to measure entanglement—in a manner that’s efficiently computable, useful, and broadly applicable in several quantum research areas.

LSU Boyd Professor of Physics & Astronomy and National Academy of Science member, Ward Plummer, passed away on July 23, 2020. He was 79 years old.

LSU theoretical and computational astrophysicist Manos Chatzopoulos was one of 76 scientists - including 26 from DOE's national laboratories and 50 from U.S. universities - to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science's Early Career Research Program.

LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Bradley Munson has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense's Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation--Scholarship-for-Service, SMART, Scholarship.

The LSU community lost one of its world-renowned faculty members when Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics Jonathan P. Dowling passed away on June 5th, 2020, after a brief illness. He was 65 years old.

LSU Medical Physics Graduate Student Stephanie Wang Awarded the First Kenneth R. Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship in Medical Physics.