Louisiana State University

Breakthrough discoveries at LSU create better lives for our neighbors across the state and around the globe. On any given day, LSU innovators—faculty, students, university peers, and industry partners—are collaborating on 2,000+ research projects and delivering groundbreaking results, including weather-tolerant crops, hurricane-resilient building materials and methods, cutting-edge cancer treatments, and new antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacteria.

New Antibiotics May End Chronic Infections, Slash Health Care Costs

for Biomed, OLOL & LCMC partnership to transform patient care and the workforce pipeline

for Energy, NSF grant to position Louisiana to lead the global energy expansion

In fall of 2025, LSU will launch a new instructional site on its Baton Rouge campus for its nationally recognized Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program.

LSU and Battelle Energy Alliance, the company that manages Idaho National Laboratory (INL), have agreed to collaborate in areas of mutual interest, including cybersecurity and advanced nuclear technology, under a memorandum of understanding, or MOU.

Half of all medical students graduating from LSU Health Shreveport and LSU Health New Orleans will remain in Louisiana to complete their residency training, according to the results of the 2025 National Resident Matching Program.

Louisiana ranks fifth in the nation for Alzheimer’s disease, which mostly impacts older adults and is among the leading causes of death. But thanks to a growing partnership between LSU and Ochsner Health, dementia care is improving.