LSU is proud to announce and welcome Brandon Common as the university's new Associate Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of Students. Common, who currently serves as assistant vice president of student affairs for campus life at Illinois Wesleyan University, will serve as LSU's principle student advocate and provide strategic leadership for programs, services, events and experiences that enhance the LSU student experience.

The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication will host its 2020 Media Leaders Forum, “The Press and the President: An In-Depth Look at the Difficult Relationship Between President Trump and the Media,” on Oct. 1.

A new book by LSU Department of Sociology Associate Professor and gang scholar Matthew Valasik is the first book to conceptualize alt-right youth groups and situate their appearance across a broad array of academic literature.

Initiative seeks to connect university talent to the region's business community through internships.

LSU Engineering faculty have received a $3.4 million National Science Foundation Scholarships for Service grant, which will fund 21 scholarships in cybersecurity training over a five-year period.

LSU Ph.D. physics alumnus Jonathan Cripe and a team of LSU researchers have conducted a new experiment with scientists from Caltech and Thorlabs to explore a way to improve gravitational wave detector sensitivity.

Department of Finance Professors Rajesh Narayanan and R. Kelley Pace, and Assistant Professors James Nordlund and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakera developed a computational model of social distancing behavior throughout the U.S.

For the second-straight year, LSU has broken the record for the largest and most diverse freshman class in university history. This year's 6,690 freshmen enrolled surpasses last year's record of 6,126 freshmen. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, overall enrollment at LSU is at an all-time high of 34,290, and the university also saw high marks for retention and graduation rates.

The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs announces a yearlong partnership with Southern University and A&M College’s Nelson Mandela College of Government and Social Sciences, Louisiana Budget Project, NAACP Louisiana State Conference and LSU Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to present “Racism: Dismantling the System.”