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Eugene Kennedy Named Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Institutional Effectiveness

Eugene Kennedy Named Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Institutional Effectiveness

º£½ÇÉçÇø College of Human Sciences & Education has named Eugene Kennedy, PhD, currently professor in the School of Education, as the associate dean for academic programs and institutional effectiveness. Kennedy will begin his new role December 1.

Kameshwar Studying the Effect of Debris on Structures in Natural Disasters

Kameshwar Studying the Effect of Debris on Structures in Natural Disasters

In Louisiana, the main concern for several months out of the year is hurricanes, or more specifically, the wind and storm surge that accompany them. However, an overlooked aspect of these storms is the resulting debris, which accounts for nearly 25% of all disaster costs.

º£½ÇÉçÇø Executive Education Launching Nationally Accredited Certified Public Manager Program

º£½ÇÉçÇø Executive Education Launching Nationally Accredited Certified Public Manager Program

º£½ÇÉçÇø Executive Education announced that it is launching a new Certified Public Manager Program beginning in January 2023.

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$7.575M Gift to Advance º£½ÇÉçÇø's Scholarship First Agenda

º£½ÇÉçÇø will achieve transformative progress in scholarship funding and support for military veterans via a $7.575 million gift to elevate the College of Engineering's S & B Engineers and Constructors Scholarships, catalyze the new Future Scholars Pipeline Initiative and establish the William A. Brookshire Veterans Law Clinic.

º£½ÇÉçÇø Cold Case Project Re-Examines 1972 Southern University Shooting, Will Discuss Findings at 50th Anniversary Commemoration

º£½ÇÉçÇø Cold Case Project Re-Examines 1972 Southern University Shooting, Will Discuss Findings at 50th Anniversary Commemoration

The º£½ÇÉçÇø Cold Case Project will present findings from its four-part investigative series, which re-examined the 1972 shooting of two Southern University students, Denver Smith and Leonard Brown, at Southern University’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the students’ deaths on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m. CT at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

DOTD traffic camera footage with º£½ÇÉçÇø AI

Want Safe Roads? º£½ÇÉçÇø Researchers Think Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Understand Driver Behavior

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded the º£½ÇÉçÇø Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety a competitive grant to build an AI engine to better understand driver behavior that leads to crashes in order to help prevent them.

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º£½ÇÉçÇø CM Online Still Growing Nearly 10 Years Later

In 2012, º£½ÇÉçÇø Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management Chair Charles Berryman was asked to create an online presence for the department, the first of its kind in the College of Engineering. Five years later, the program was ranked 11th in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online Programs in the nation.

WFL Coastal Storm Surge Prediction

º£½ÇÉçÇø Improves Storm Surge and Flood Predictions with AI

The º£½ÇÉçÇø-developed tool to predict storm surge and flooding during severe weather events—the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment, or CERA, website—has become an essential resource for thousands of emergency managers and first responders in Louisiana and the nation’s coastal states to help protect people and infrastructure. Now, the tool will become even smarter and faster, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Veterans Find Community at º£½ÇÉçÇø

Veterans Find Community at º£½ÇÉçÇø

The º£½ÇÉçÇø William A. Brookshire Military & Veterans Student Center has given Grant Strohmeyer (º£½ÇÉçÇø '26) a home on campus. Strohmeyer, an electrical engineering major, served in the Marines for four years.

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º£½ÇÉçÇø Student and Army Veteran Trains to Help Children Fighting Cancer

Kimberly Belalcazar served her country as a behavioral health specialist in the Army. At º£½ÇÉçÇø, she is studying psychology and plans to become a clinical psychologist, working with children fighting cancer.

º£½ÇÉçÇø Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

º£½ÇÉçÇø Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

º£½ÇÉçÇø Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Shyam Menon is leading a group of º£½ÇÉçÇø Engineering faculty in a $1.14 million U.S. Department of Energy-funded project that will develop an improved pre-screening strategy for candidate SAFs and then apply it to their own SAF synthesized from raw materials, such as sugarcane bagasse and forestry residue.

º£½ÇÉçÇø TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

º£½ÇÉçÇø TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

TRIO Upward Bound and McNair Scholars Program will provide five years of funding to help hundreds of local students find their paths to college and beyond

º£½ÇÉçÇøE and º£½ÇÉçÇøA officials sign partnership documents

º£½ÇÉçÇø Eunice and º£½ÇÉçÇø Alexandria Sign Partnership for Surgical Technology Expansion

º£½ÇÉçÇø Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between º£½ÇÉçÇøS and º£½ÇÉçÇø Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2023 rankings, citing the program's high retention rates.

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Hacking the Metaverse

º£½ÇÉçÇø Cybersecurity Professor Abe Baggili is one of the first people in the world to study immersive virtual reality safety to provide solutions to the VR software industry and protect people who use these new products.

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º£½ÇÉçÇø Geoscientists Analyze Fans' Earthshaking Reaction to Win

Fans inside and outside of Tiger Stadium erupted with excitement as they watched their team beat Alabama in overtime. At the same time, a seismometer on º£½ÇÉçÇø's campus captured the excitement, recording two distinctive seismic wave events.