College of Engineering

It's hard to find the upside of sweltering summer heat in South Louisiana, but one thing it is good for is generating clean energy through sunshine. LSU Construction Management (CM) Assistant Professor Arup Bhattacharya and a team of LSU professors partnered with BASF on a project that combined aesthetics and solar energy to provide LSU students with a place to sit and study in the shade while also charging their electronic devices and enjoying the view.

When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Louisiana faced more than broken levees and flooded neighborhoods—it faced a broken map. For years, shifting ground and rising seas made the state’s official elevation benchmarks unreliable.

LSU’s rapidly growing cybersecurity program, which earned the nation’s top designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2022, has received a highly competitive $2.4 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).