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From Marie Curie to the discovery of fission, nuclear submarines, and small modular reactors for chemical manufacturing and AI data centers, nuclear science and technology has advanced for more than a century: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It’s as big as a poppy seed and makes “new nuclear” significantly safer than nuclear technology used to be—meet the TRISO particle, developed by American and British researchers.
lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Nuclear energy can be used as a source of both power and heat, highly useful for industrial operations and to efficiently make hydrogen, used to make ammonia and fertilizer for crops. So, more nuclear, more food? It's possible: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Whether your priority is more energy and a strong economy or less emissions and a sustainable planet, nuclear energy tends to enter the conversation.
Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Tomorrow night at #LSU Science Café with researchers Madoka Kishi and Pallavi Rastogi, learn how Asians have changed Louisiana culturally, politically, and gastronomically as much as Louisiana has changed them: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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“This paper is high-impact because it examines an existential risk, projecting the billions who’d starve under nuclear winter scenarios...” Learn from #LSU researchers how to become highly cited: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Last night at #LSU Science Café, Prof. Mark Mitchell
@lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you're curious about #LSU's new scanning transmission electron microscope, the most advanced microscope in Louisiana, you're not alone. It's a BIG deal (almost 13' tall).
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“With the #LSU Cyber Clinic, we built defenses against [our] biggest threat: social engineering attacks.”—Luke Dwinell-Janopaul, Permanent Coatings: cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Meet Arushi Ghildiyal who stacked research, service, internship, and leadership opportunities at LSU on top of highly technical courses, graduating at 20 and now at Chevron:
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Tomorrow, join us for Science Café to dig into the research on the #LSU Campus Mounds that could radically change how the American Indian history of North America is understood: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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In just over a year, the LSU-built professor rating app Professor Index (PI) has grown to reach 20 universities, including @lsu.bsky.social @tulaneu.bsky.social @ullafayette.bsky.social @uncchapelhill.bsky.social www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09...
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September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#LSU researchers in @lsucoad.bsky.social have partnered with @syngenta.bsky.social and FUEL to develop low-cost digital twins—virtual replicas of physical assets—to improve operations at chemical processing facilities.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#LSU Research Highlights celebrates growing research programs for student success and the discovery of how cysteine can trigger “a calorie-burning furnace”: lsu-campaigns.omniupdate.com/t/d-e-gojktt...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The new #LSU Energy Institute will unify and expand the university’s leadership and resulting impact in energy research, innovation, policy, data, education, and service.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Cyber Win! #LSU is 1 of only 6 U.S. schools to receive new NSF CyberCorps funding this year. The award, $2.4M, will give dozens of students generous scholarships to launch national security careers: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/08...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Living near a thermal waste treatment facility changes your body, #LSU research shows. Learn more about the work with the community in Colfax, Louisiana, published in Experimental Biology and Medicine: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/08... @lsuscience.bsky.social @pbrcnews.bsky.social #WBTTW #ScholarshipFirst
August 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#LSU VPR Robert Twilley speaks to @npr.org about the end of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project after two decades of planning, permitting, and investment following Hurricane Katrina.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Internships can become dream jobs—but it can take 4 days in a Honda Civic with 1 wife, 2 dogs, and 1 bunny to get there.
Meet #LSU @lsucse.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social alumnus Brennen Calato at Idaho National Lab: lsu.edu/blog/2025/07...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#LSU coastal science and chemical engineering team wins National Science Foundation recognition, $1.6M award to bring 10 of the nation’s best research students to Louisiana for energy, environment: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/07...
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July 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Tomorrow night, join us for #LSU Science Café where Garrett Hopper @lsucollegeofag.bsky.social will talk about freshwater mussels, which are imperiled but offer solutions to societal challenges.
www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...
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July 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Meet Keith Mills, a new #LSU professor @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social who will teach deep neural networks and sees #AI as intrinsically good when used as a tool to magnify human ingenuity, creativity.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/07...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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LSU-led team wins $7M from NSF to turn agricultural wastes, such as sugarcane bagasse, into liquid fuels—and jobs—using new electrochemical technology.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/07...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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#LSU cyber students will teach new ways to fight malware at the world’s largest and longest-running hacking conference @defcon.bsky.social
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/06...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM