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![2022 Love Purple Live Gold Awards Ceremony Recognizes Outstanding Students](/_resources_fierce/img/lsu-memorial-tower-morning.jpg)
2022 Love Purple Live Gold Awards Ceremony Recognizes Outstanding Students
LSU Campus Life celebrated outstanding leaders, advisors and student organizations at the Love Purple Live Gold Awards on Monday, April 18. Out of 243 nominees, 16 awards were given out to student leaders for their outstanding efforts during the 2021-22 school year.
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LSU Law Barristers’ Bowl raises $16K for the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center in Baton Rouge
The annual Barristers’ Bowl game and cheerleading performance by LSU Law students returned from a three-year hiatus on March 4, with the Purple Team besting the Gold Team 36-0 in the full-tackle football game and the charity auction raising $16,000 for the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center in Baton Rouge.
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LSU Eunice, Ochsner Lafayette General Announce Extended Partnership
Louisiana State University at Eunice and Ochsner Lafayette General announce a contribution of nearly $700,000 towards expansion in LSUE’s Allied Health programs, the two groups unveiled on Wednesday.
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Eleven LSU Seniors to Graduate with Engaged Citizen Distinction
The Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership, or CCELL, in conjunction with LSU Campus Life, is pleased to announce its spring 2022 cohort of 11 seniors that will graduate from LSU next week with the Engaged Citizen distinction.
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What Makes Some More Afraid of Change than Others?
Scientists have discovered significant differences in how the brain works in two distinct personality types: those who act fearless and those who seem afraid of new things.
Three LSU Seniors Receive Fulbright English Teaching Assistant and Study/Research Awards to Work in Spain and the Czech Republic
Three LSU Ogden Honors College seniors – Sanaa Alam, from Lafayette, La.; Revathi Menon, from Baton Rouge, La.; and Jacob Miller, from Crowley, La. – received Fulbright English Teaching Assistant and Study/Research awards to work in Spain and the Czech Republic.
LSU Sophomore Nabs Hollings Scholarship from NOAA
Ria Salway, an Ogden Honors College sophomore and Louisiana Service and Leadership, or LASAL, Scholar, is a 2022 recipient of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship.
![LSUHS Helped a Mom Walk Again; Now She Will See Her Son Walk at LSU's Commencement](/_resources_fierce/img/lsu-memorial-tower-morning.jpg)
LSUHS Helped a Mom Walk Again; Now She Will See Her Son Walk at LSU's Commencement
When William Gaspard Jr. graduates with his degree from LSU in agricultural and extension education on May 20, his mom and family will be there to cheer him on. But there was a time when William wasn't sure his mom would ever walk again. A 2013 surgery performed by doctors at LSU Health Shreveport was an answer to their prayers.
![LSU Museum of Art Appoints New Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte](/_resources_fierce/img/lsu-memorial-tower-morning.jpg)
LSU Museum of Art Appoints New Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte
The LSU Museum of Art is excited to announce Michelle Schulte as the new Senior Curator and Director of Programming at the museum as of April 2022.
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LSU Shreveport, Health Shreveport Public Health Master's Program Ranked 4th Nationally by Fortune Magazine
LSU Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between LSUS and LSU Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2022 rankings, which cited the program's high retention rates.
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Army Tapped LSU to Understand Deltaic Change, Future-Proof U.S. National Defense
When the U.S. Army needed to understand how climate change will affect the so-called “critical zone”—the thin land surface layer comprised of vegetation, soils, and sediments—to improve their own planning and secure people, equipment, and infrastructure, they turned to LSU.
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Pennington, LSU Health New Orleans Part of National Study to Create Personalized-Nutrition Algorithm
Pennington Biomedical, in partnership with LSU Health New Orleans, is taking part in a study using machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions.
![Kevin Xu on a boat in water](https://www.lsu.edu/cce/images/2021_portfourchon_xu_boat.jpg)
Protecting Port Fourchon, Louisiana’s Energy Industry Hub
LSU scientists are learning how to manage sediment to prevent land loss and improve hurricane preparedness in Louisiana's southernmost port, a key place for the U.S. energy industry, but also one of the nation's most vulnerable places.
![Ross Barnett Reservior at sunset](https://www.lsu.edu/research/images/070121_tangi_ross_barnett_reservoir.jpg)
LSU Helps Flood-Prone Tangipahoa Parish Rise to Challenges
In the wake of 2016 floods, which devastated Tangipahoa Parish and 20 other South Louisiana parishes, the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and LSU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering began collaborating with local government and communities to set Tangipahoa Parish on a path toward resilience.
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Protecting House and Home: Louisiana’s Number-One Key to Resilience
LSU researchers, from coastal scientists and engineers to sociologists and psychologists, are working to protect Louisiana residents and homeowners from the potentially devastating impacts of flooding.