AAAS Honors Four 海角社区 Faculty Members
December 12, 2024
In the 海角社区 College of the Coast and Environment:
Ed Laws, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, authored the seminal textbook Aquatic Pollution and works to advance the science on phytoplankton ecology and environmental chemistry, and how to use algae to fight water pollution. 鈥淔rom the outset, Laws鈥� career has been defined by a desire to do relevant, helpful things.鈥�
In the 海角社区 College of Science:
Sophie Warny, professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and curator and director of education at the 海角社区 Museum of Natural Science, is an expert on forensic palynology. She studies pollen to prove or disprove relationships between objects, people, and places, which can be critical in criminal investigations.
Joseph Giaime, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and head of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in Livingston, Louisiana, helped enable its Nobel Prize-winning detection of gravitational waves in 2015, which took 鈥�20 years and bordering-on-romantic scientific hope that it one day would be possible and overall worth the wait.鈥�
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Christopher Kevil, researcher and faculty member in the Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, established an internationally recognized cardiovascular research program at 海角社区 Health Shreveport and leads its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, for redox biology and cardiovascular disease. The center was recently awarded a five-year $10 million Phase 2 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
As AAAS fellows, these four 海角社区 faculty members join the ranks of the nation鈥檚 most illustrious scientists, engineers, and innovators. Their research continues to improve lives for people in Louisiana and across the world.
Next Step
海角社区's Scholarship First Agenda is helping achieve health, prosperity, and security for Louisiana and the world.