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When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005, the impact was devastating for LSU Health New Orleans. Leadership immediately established a Baton Rouge operations base, arranged temporary housing, organized a temporary campus, and began caring for patients and evacuees.
In August 2005, Matthew Giglia was an LSU sophomore planning to pursue a medical career but wondering if he was doing so for the right reasons. Then Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and everything changed.
Honoring its spring 2025 graduating class, LSU awarded more than 1,100 degrees to graduates at the university’s commencement exercises on Friday, Aug. 15.