CHSE Research

Tracey Rizzuto, professor in the School of Leadership & Human Resource Development, is LSU PI, and Christiane Spitzmüeller, professor at UC Merced, is the lead investigator for the $4.5 million NSF grant that will create a Center for Equity in Faculty Advancement.

School of Kinesiology Director and Karen Wax Schmitt and Family Endowed Professor John Nauright presented and led the feature session on The Enhanced Games at the International Network of Doping Research Conference on August 15-16. The theme of the conference was "Pushing Boundaries in Enhancement." He presented his work Beyond Scapegoats: Money, Doping and the Myth of the Level Playing Field in Sports, which explored the cases of Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan, Russian ice skater Kamila Valieva, and recent discussions about Chinese swimmers.

At the center of the Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education is the desire to prepare LSU students to educate the young minds of Louisiana to ensure their future successes. Joshua Ellis, PhD, Associate Professor of Science/STEM Education in the Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education, is a member of an LSU faculty team that has been awarded a $1,187,387 grant from the National Science Foundation for the preparation of future STEM teachers.

The School of Kinesiology is out of this world. Literally. In collaboration with colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard (Dr. Vladimir Ivkovic and Ms. JoAnna Pollonais), Guillaume Spielmann, PhD, Associate Professor in the LSU School of Kinesiology and Heather Quiriarte, research manager in the LSU School of Kinesiology, examined the effects of microgravity on brain blood flow and biomarkers of immune function and stress in Axiom Mission 3 backup and Turkish Space Agency astronaut Tuva Atasever during a suborbital flight on June 8 conducted by Axiom Space and Virgin Galactic.

BATON ROUGE - Many autistic children experience motor difficulties that are critical for eating, dressing, schoolwork, and physical activity. Nick Fears, PhD, and the Human Development and Daily Life Lab in the LSU School of Kinesiology were awarded $50,000 from the Healthy Weight Research Network (funded by HRSA/Maternal and Child Health Bureau) housed at the UMass Chan Medical School to adapt an app for parents and caregivers to use with their autistic preschoolers to improve their motor skills and increase their physical activity. The goal is to improve autistic preschool children's motor skills to improve their health and enable them to participate in more activities in their homes, school, and communities.

LSU Kinesiology's Liz Heintz is DETERMINED to #GEAUXCHANGELIVES through her dedication to SAVING lives.

LSU Kinesiology Professor Senlin Chen, PhD, and his team are developing a novel obesity prevention program to use in Louisiana schools, combining such tactics as virtual pets and coaches with the best science to encourage healthy behaviors.

Cultural heritage institutions, including galleries, libraries, archives and museums, or GLAMs, are being impacted by climate change. About 56 percent of these institutions reported increased damage to collections due to water or moisture between 2017-2019. Of that damage, about 10 percent was the result of natural disasters. As storm season ramps up in the south, LSU researchers reached a significant milestone in a research project aimed at assisting our nation's historical/natural/scientific/cultural collections remain safe and intact.

LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED, honors the exceptional research and scholarship of two LSU faculty as Distinguished Research Masters each year. In addition, the LSU Alumni Association and the LSU Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School sponsor the Distinguished Dissertation Awards presented to two doctoral students whose research and writing demonstrate superior scholarship.

Six LSU faculty members have been selected to receive Rainmaker awards this year by the LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED. These faculty members show outstanding research, scholarship and creative activity for their respective ranks and disciplines.

LSU’s Edward Benoit, III, is working to make sure stories about the American war experience do not go untold.

The Provost's Fund for Innovation in Research makes a bold $1.1M investment in big, emerging ideas.

The Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI) is focused holistically on the early years of a child’s life and fills a unique niche by targeting the early care, specifically birth through age three. Holistic development invites collaboration from other disciplines in the study of recommended practice for young children. The ECEI aims to make LSU a leader in early care and education research, dissemination, and advocacy on recommended practices. In collaboration with both the LSU Early Childhood Education academic programs and the LSU Early Childhood Education Laboratory Preschool, the ECEI promotes recommended practices through discovery, curricula, programs, and strategic partnerships to provide an evidence-based focus on developing recommended practices in early childhood care and education for Louisiana and the nation. The ECEI links LSU’s expertise in early childhood education with the critical need for a highly educated early childhood workforce of researchers and advocates to advance the profession of early care and education.

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The Healthy Aging Research Center (HARC) positively impacts the health of vulnerable older adults through interdisciplinary applied research: to improve the health, wellbeing, and independence of older adults and their caregivers. We focus on physiological, psychological, behavioral, social, and environmental processes involved in aging. HARC aims to educate policymakers on cognitive health and impairment, dementia, and caregiver support. We engage with the larger community in conversations about healthy aging, cognitive aging, and early detection and diagnosis of dementia and supports for people with dementia and their caregivers.

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The Leadership Development Institute (LDI) offers cutting-edge, customized, evidence-based leadership development preparation, interventions, and coaching tailored to individuals, boards, communities, and organizations in the education, youth advancement, government, non-profit, and human services sector. Business and industry have known for decades that leadership development affects organizational effectiveness. Employers that deliberately focus on building leadership capacity in their workforce outperform peers by up to 13 times in key bottom line outcomes (Boatman et al, 2012). Applying these same strategies to target “the people who develop people” is critical to increasing retention, building morale, and achieving goals. LDI has the tools to research, build, and deliver the leadership solution for individuals, teams, and/or organizations to reach maximum potential. LDI offers an array of solutions, proven effective for industry and people, designed by experts in the fields of education and social impact. Capacity building, experiential learning, and transformation trainings will help individuals emerge as leaders. LDI is mission focused and uses research-driven approaches to deliver professional development that empowers a culture of leaders toward a world of growth.

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The Social Research & Evaluation Center (SREC) works to foster healthy social systems. SREC designs, implements, and evaluates community and social programs, and its work ranges from conducting rigorous research to providing consultation to community agencies, policy makers, and university partners. SREC connects communities by working to strengthen assets, informs decisions to maximize positive outcome, promotes visions to create successful people, groups, and environments, and generates knowledge through research and evaluation to improve understanding of social, economic, and behavioral needs and opportunities.

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