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A new collaboration between LSU of Alexandria, the LSU AgCenter, and Louisiana-based Guardian Aerial is bringing precision agriculture to life. By integrating drone technology, the partnership helps farmers boost efficiency, cut costs, and prepare students for tech-driven ag careers.
While many people focus on such risk factors for dementia as family history, they may not focus as much on resilience factors, the steps they can take to protect brain health. Dr. Nicolás Bazan, Boyd Professor of Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans, explains.
Returning to LSU came full circle for Navy veteran Scott Sonnier. After serving and a decade in federal work, medical retirement brought him back to Louisiana—this time to protect the digital world as a cybersecurity major, continuing his mission to serve.
To meet growing energy needs, the United States plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050. Meanwhile, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing in small nuclear reactor technology to help meet the enormous energy needs of AI data centers. More than 30 companies have announced plans for advanced reactors, which are evolutions of those that have been powering nuclear submarines for 70 years.
LSU’s Virtual Footlocker Project 2 helps Vietnam-era veterans preserve their service stories and access vital records by partnering with libraries and archives—ensuring their legacies, benefits, and histories are never lost.
Many businesses are not proactive about cybersecurity, often believing hackers prefer to target large firms and institutions. But the opposite can be true, according to the LSU Cybersecurity Clinic.
When Aeris Kelleher, a puzzle-loving LSU junior from Gonzales, Louisiana, is not in the classroom, she often serves as a cyber defender, protecting organizations and people from digital threats through her work at TigerSOC, an LSU student-run security operations center.
In a new study, Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor of Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans, and colleagues found that a diet with certain fibers counteracted Alzheimer’s pathology and cognitive deficits in mice that carried risk genes for dementia.
Modern malware hides deep within systems, making detection like finding a needle in a haystack. At LSU, researchers Aisha Ali-Gombe and James Ghawaly created MalParse, an AI model that rapidly detects and interprets hidden malicious code.
The LSU Energy Institute has named Tyler Gray as its inaugural director of energy innovation, a key leadership role within LSU’s expanding energy research and policy enterprise. Gray’s appointment marks an important step in LSU’s continued move to align energy-focused units under a single institute to serve Louisiana’s evolving energy economy.
A team led by Joyoni Dey, associate professor in LSU’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been working to improve the measurement of breast density using physics-based methods that produce precise measurements, helping doctors better assess cancer risk.
LSU’s Advanced Microscopy and Analytical Core (AMAC) facility gives Louisiana researchers access to 16 state-of-the-art instruments, including a new Spectra 300 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (S/TEM) for atomic-scale imaging and analysis.