2005 News Briefs

NIH awards $16.9 million grant to LSU: New Orleans-based researchers, institutions to participate despite Katrina
LSU and seven other Louisiana institutions have received a prestigious IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence, or INBRE, grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant totals $16.9 million over a five-year period. 10.11.05 MORE>>

Louisiana Sea Grant launches hurricane recovery Web site
Responding to the need for information in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program has launched a recovery resources Web site. 10.05.05 MORE>>

LSU receives $3M award from National Science Foundation
LSU has been chosen by the National Science Foundation as a recipient of a prestigious Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) and is one of only 20 applicants to receive the award. 07.21.05 MORE>>

Louisiana Purchase Venture Capital Forum
The fifth annual Louisiana Purchase Venture Capital Forum will be held October 26-27, 2005. The two-day event will provide a meeting ground for entrepreneurs and investors looking to enhance business growth in the Gulf Coast Region. 07.08.05 MORE>>

LSU Researchers study the human genome
A group of LSU researchers, led by biological sciences Professor Mark Batzer, have unraveled the details of a 25-million-year-old evolutionary process in the human genome. Their study focused on the origin and spread of transposable elements in the genome, many of which are known to be related to certain genetic disorders, such as hemophilia. 06.28.05 MORE>>

University community honors Distinguished Research Masters
The LSU Office of Research & Economic Development recently announced that Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Music Education Cornelia Yarbrough and Chemistry Professor Brian Hales were the winners of the 2003 Distinguished Research Master awards. 05.18.05 MORE>>

Maya Milestone
Wading through shallow waters off the southern coast of Belize, LSU Geography and Anthropology Associate Professor Heather McKillop and a group of graduate students and helpers peered intently at the lagoon floor. 04.07.05 MORE>>

Making the change from laboratory to institute
Endowed by LSU alumni Horace Hearne Jr. in 1994, the Horace Hearne Jr. Laboratory for Theoretical Physics is well on its way to realizing the mandate of Herne's wish in his will: to establish an institute of theoretical physics at LSU. 2.2.05 MORE>>

2004 News Brief Archives