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December 2024
- Monday, 12/16/2024
- LSU Senior Postdoc Receives Japanese Young Scientist Award
- Tuesday, 12/03/2024
- You Too Can Database: A Roadmap for Creating Specialty Databases & Web Portals
November 2024
- Thursday, 11/21/2024
- PhD Candidate Aaron Trigg Receives NASA's Prestigious FINESST Fellowship
- Thursday, 11/14/2024
- Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era
- Thursday, 11/14/2024
- Medical Physics PhD Candidate Awarded Best in Physics Imaging at 2024 AAPM
October 2024
- Tuesday, 10/15/2024
- Maxwell Cole Awarded Charles M. Smith Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
September 2024
- Wednesday, 09/18/2024
- From Fields to Modeling: Navigating the Unexpected Journey to Becoming a Researcher
- Wednesday, 09/18/2024
- LSU Boyd Professor Elected Vice President of American Physical Society
- Friday, 09/06/2024
- Department Chair Jeffery Blackmon Named to SEC Leadership Program for LSU
August 2024
- Thursday, 08/22/2024
- Fox Foley Captures Fantastically Small Images at ORNL
- Thursday, 08/22/2024
- Beatriz Elizaga Navascués Awarded Bronstein Prize
- Thursday, 08/08/2024
- Mette Gaarde Named LSU Distinguished Research Master
June 2024
- Tuesday, 06/11/2024
- NASA Space Mission Named for the Late LSU Professor Arlo Landolt
May 2024
- Tuesday, 05/14/2024
- Two LSU Physics Alumni Receive NSF GRFP
April 2024
- Thursday, 04/25/2024
- Joseph Giaime Named 2023 AAAS Fellow
March 2024
- Thursday, 03/21/2024
- Catherine Deibel named 2024 LSU Mid-Career Rainmaker in STEM
- Friday, 03/01/2024
- Multiparticle Nanostructures for Building Better Quantum Technologies
January 2024
- Wednesday, 01/17/2024
- Richard Lesieur Awarded Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
December 2023
- Monday, 12/04/2023
- 2013 PhD Alumna Receives FIAP Career Lectureship Award
November 2023
- Thursday, 11/16/2023
- CALET Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
October 2023
- Wednesday, 10/25/2023
- NASA's Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger
- Monday, 10/09/2023
- Meet the astrophysicist who is working to make parking easier
- Monday, 10/02/2023
- Physics & Astronomy Welcomes New Faculty Members
September 2023
- Tuesday, 09/26/2023
- Nathaniel Wrobel - Student Spotlight
- Wednesday, 09/13/2023
- Kenneth J. Schafer Honored as Boyd Professor, LSU’s Highest Professorial Ranking
May 2023
- Friday, 05/26/2023
- Scientists Discover Light Conversion in Free Space
- Monday, 05/15/2023
- 2022 - 2023 Department of Physics & Astronomy Annual Awards
April 2023
- Monday, 04/17/2023
- Medical Physics Graduate Student Sydney Carr Shares her Research Experience
- Friday, 04/14/2023
- LSU Physics Professor Receives Esteemed NSF CAREER Award
- Thursday, 04/13/2023
- E. Ward Plummer 2023 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Honoree
- Monday, 04/10/2023
- LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
March 2023
- Tuesday, 03/21/2023
- LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
- Wednesday, 03/08/2023
- Chatzopoulos Named a 2022 LSU Emerging Scholar in STEM Rainmaker
February 2023
- Monday, 02/06/2023
- LSU Professor Aims to Improve Radiation Therapy to Save Lives
November 2022
- Wednesday, 11/02/2022
- New MicroBooNE analysis takes a closer look at the sterile neutrino
October 2022
- Wednesday, 10/26/2022
- LSU Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force
August 2022
- Monday, 08/29/2022
- LSU Boyd Professor's Legacy Elevates Research and Scholarship
- Thursday, 08/25/2022
- LSU Physics Professor Launches New AI Space Start-up
July 2022
- Tuesday, 07/19/2022
- LSU Welcomes James A. Sauls as Hearne Research Chair in Theoretical Physics
- Thursday, 07/14/2022
- LSU Astrophysicists Break Down the Impact of Newly Released NASA Images