Office of the President
Welcome
President Wade Rousse, PhD
Louisiana State University's Next President
The LSU Board of Supervisors has appointed Wade Rousse, Ph.D., as the President of the LSU System. Dr. Rousse is a Louisiana native who brings decades of experience across higher education, the business world, and deep research in the area of economics
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Celebrating a Year of Wins
Powering Solutions for Louisiana
Under university leadership, Louisiana has made strides to power solutions for Louisiana's toughest problems.
Read on to learn more about LSU's progress.
Scholarship First in Action
Modern malware hides deep within systems, making detection like finding a needle in a haystack. At LSU, researchers Aisha Ali-Gombe and James Ghawaly created MalParse, an AI model that rapidly detects and interprets hidden malicious code.
The LSU Energy Institute has named Tyler Gray as its inaugural director of energy innovation, a key leadership role within LSU’s expanding energy research and policy enterprise. Gray’s appointment marks an important step in LSU’s continued move to align energy-focused units under a single institute to serve Louisiana’s evolving energy economy.
A team led by Joyoni Dey, associate professor in LSU’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been working to improve the measurement of breast density using physics-based methods that produce precise measurements, helping doctors better assess cancer risk.
LSU’s Advanced Microscopy and Analytical Core (AMAC) facility gives Louisiana researchers access to 16 state-of-the-art instruments, including a new Spectra 300 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (S/TEM) for atomic-scale imaging and analysis.
LSU is leading two teams and contributing to two others that are finalists in the Gulf Futures Challenge, a national competition that funds innovative projects aimed at securing Louisiana’s energy independence and strengthening flood resilience.
When LSU immunology researcher Weishan Huang heard that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of regulatory T cells and the key gene FOXP3 that defines them, she wasn’t surprised.