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January 2021
December 2020
- Wednesday, 12/09/2020
- Kekejian has been awarded 2020 LSU Alumni Association International Student Scholarship
November 2020
- Monday, 11/16/2020
- Tracking COVID-19 Trends in Hard-Hit States
- Tuesday, 11/10/2020
- Vicari's Journey to Continue Family Legacy in Medical Physics
- Wednesday, 11/04/2020
- LSU Graduate Student will Perform Thesis Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 2020
- Thursday, 10/29/2020
- LIGO and Virgo announce new detections in updated gravitational-wave catalog
- Friday, 10/23/2020
- NASA Supports LSU Physicist's Work to Advance Human Space Exploration
- Wednesday, 10/07/2020
- Ana Dieguez Awarded Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
September 2020
- Friday, 09/11/2020
- Global Physicist Gabriela González Elected as APS General Councilor
August 2020
- Friday, 08/21/2020
- Unveiling 'Island Worlds' with NASA's Roman Space Telescope
July 2020
- Thursday, 07/30/2020
- LSU Physics Students Receive Louisiana Space Grant Research Awards
- Wednesday, 07/29/2020
- Healing an Achilles’ Heel of Quantum Entanglement
- Friday, 07/24/2020
- LSU Mourns the Passing of Internationally Renowned Professor E. Ward Plummer
June 2020
- Thursday, 06/25/2020
- LSU Astrophysicist Awarded DOE Early Career Research Grant
- Thursday, 06/18/2020
- LSU Physics PhD Candidate Presented Prominent DoD SMART Scholarship
- Tuesday, 06/09/2020
- LSU Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Professor Jonathan P. Dowling
May 2020
- Thursday, 05/21/2020
- LSU Physics Graduate Student Presented Prominent DoD SMART Scholarship
- Thursday, 05/21/2020
- Distinguished Research Master Joseph Giaime
- Wednesday, 05/20/2020
- Was Betelgeuse Formed by Merging Stars?
- Wednesday, 05/06/2020
- LSU Physicists Identify Light Sources using Artificial Intelligence
April 2020
- Wednesday, 04/22/2020
- Boyajian Honored with 2020 TAF/LSU Discover Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
- Wednesday, 04/15/2020
- LSU Researchers Advance Our Understanding on the Formation of the Universe
- Tuesday, 04/14/2020
- Three-Peat LSU Students Receive Distinguished SPS Chapter Award
- Wednesday, 04/08/2020
- Dima Vaido awarded Honorable Mention in 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Wednesday, 04/01/2020
- LSU Ogden Honors Student Receives 2020 Goldwater Scholarship
March 2020
- Monday, 03/30/2020
- Matthew Penny Discusses Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets
February 2020
January 2020
- Monday, 01/06/2020
- Binary Star V Sagittae will Explode as a very Bright 'Nova' by Century's End
December 2019
- Tuesday, 12/03/2019
- Quantum Cryptography in the US-China Tech Race
- Monday, 12/02/2019
- LSU NCBRT/ACE Announces Affiliation with LaSpace, Prepares for New Frontiers
November 2019
- Wednesday, 11/06/2019
- Studying the Enigmatic Dance of Electrons in Graphene
October 2019
- Friday, 10/11/2019
- LSU Physicist Awarded Prestigious 2019 Emil Wolf Award
- Friday, 10/11/2019
- NASA's Keith Comeaux on engineering the Mars 2020 Rover mission
September 2019
- Friday, 09/27/2019
- Light in a New Light
- Tuesday, 09/24/2019
- Boosting Baton Rouge’s Computational Edge
August 2019
- Wednesday, 08/21/2019
- Health in High Resolution: Better Diagnostic Imaging Developed at LSU
- Tuesday, 08/20/2019
- Tech Industry Experts Share How to Succeed
- Tuesday, 08/13/2019
- Student Spotlight: More than Dust in the Wind
July 2019
- Monday, 07/29/2019
- LSU Mourns the Loss of Professor Mark Jarrell
- Thursday, 07/18/2019
- Quantum Buzz (No Bee)
May 2019
- Friday, 05/31/2019
- LSU’s Quantum Expertise Garners White House Invitation
- Wednesday, 05/29/2019
- Looking for a Gravitational Wave Research Guru?