Making Waves With Research Communications
Communication can be a challenge. It can be especially challenging when you’re trying to explain complicated, jargon-filled research to a lay audience. But that’s what we do everyday. Some stories are...
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Communicating the broader impacts of your work is integral to managing successful research grants. At some point during your career, you will have to interact with the media to ensure that your...
View ArticleEarning My Stripes
A guest blog post from Kelly Hotard, mass communication senior. If you were to tell me in the fall of 2011 that, a year later, I’d be writing articles about science and research as an intern for LSU’s...
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Cowboys & Lassos: The origin of lassoing from horseback
Whether among working cowboys, at a rodeo, a scene from a movie, or in a magazine advertisement for Marlboro cigarettes— most of us have seen a cowboy on horseback chasing down a steer, casting a lasso...
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Journey to Antarctica | Packing for Snow
BY Peyton Adkins It is one month until I leave for Antarctica! Just a quick background on me before you find out what it is I am talking about. I am starting my senior year at LSU as a pre-med...
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LSU Research Communications Director Interviewed in Research Communications Blog
LSU Director of Research Communications Ashley Berthelot was interviewed by Denise Graveline, veteran of the field and public relations expert. Berthelot discussed the new and innovative methods the...
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Measuring the Environmental Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill
by Prosanta Chakrabarty. Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences & Curator of Ichthyology, LSU Museum of Natural Science The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest accidental release...
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Journey to Antarctica | Settling In
McMurdo, Antarctica, which serves as the United States Antarctic Science Facility. BY Peyton Adkins 11.24.12 Today will be my first full day in McMurdo, Antarctica! McMurdo serves as the United States...
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Journey to Antarctica | A Happy Camper
There is so much to fill you in on! The last week and some odd days have been incredibly busy preparing for the science aspect of the test coming up in mid-December on the Ross Ice Shelf; this is where...
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Journey to Antarctica | Under the Ice
Merry late Christmas! I hope everyone had and is continuing to have a great holiday. The holiday times here have been quite busy but very enjoyable all the same. The week leading up to Christmas was...
View ArticleLSU Ichthyology: On Sarcopterygii
Sarcopterygii, or the lobe-finned fishes, includes the coelacanths, lungfishes, fishes involved in the transition to land, and all tetrapods (mammals, amphibians, and reptiles [the birds, turtles,...
View ArticleSummary of 2013 Hurricane Season
by Barry Keim LSU Professor of Geography & Anthropology Louisiana State Climatologist The 2013 hurricane season quietly ended on Nov. 30. In total, there were 13 named storms, which included 11...
View ArticleAssessment of Last Week’s Freeze on the Bayou
by Barry D. Keim- LSU Professor & Louisiana State Climatologist Last week’s freeze was an extraordinary event in Louisiana, but perhaps not as extraordinary as you might think. At New Orleans...
View ArticleLSU Tops in the Nation at Awarding Chemistry Ph.D. Degrees to Women and...
LSU is the top university in the nation in granting Ph.D. degrees in chemistry to women and underrepresented minority students, according to a study published in the Journal of Chemical Education. The...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Bacteria Proposed for Passaic River Superfund Site Cleanup
A decadeslong fight over cleaning up one of the nation’s most contaminated riverbeds has posed a difficult question: how to safely remove enough toxic material from New Jersey’s Passaic River to fill...
View ArticleHouston Chronicle: When robotic eyes look for oil, something may look back
The oil industry’s quest for energy from creatures that died eons ago is finding new ones that are still very much alive. The latest discovery – what may be a new species related to squids – showed up...
View ArticleBloomberg: Arthur Strengthens Into Season’s First Hurricane
Robert Twilley, professor of Oceanography at Louisiana State University, and Bloomberg’s Bonnie Schneider track the progress of Hurricane Arthur as it grows into the first official storm of the...
View ArticleEight from LSU Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eight current or former students have been recognized by the National Science Foundation, or NSF, as 2014 Graduate Research Fellows and three students received honorable mention.
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LSU research team bound for Alaska
Heather F. Lavender is a research associate with Dr. Brent Christner’s research group. Their lab studies microorganisms living in permanently cold environments.
View ArticleGrad Student Maria Vozzo Assesses Oil Impacts on Louisiana Oysters
Maria Vozzo’s strong interest in Deepwater Horizon research led her from North Carolina to Louisiana to study the oil’s effects on local oysters. Her work has a wide scope, from the oyster’s...
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