Summer/Fall 2005

The Secrets of Long, Healthy Life
A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the LSU Life Course and Aging Center, LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans has been taking a multi-faceted look at what exactly healthy aging means. MORE>>

LSU one of only 20 institutions to receive prestigious $3M award
LSU has been chosen by the National Science Foundation to receive $3 million for an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT. MORE>>

Keeping Kids in School
The LSU Office of Social Service Research and Development's Truancy Assessment Service Center (TASC) program guides Louisiana's efforts to curb absenteeism in schools, known as truancy, and make state social services more easily available to families who need them. MORE>>

Seeing Clearly
According to the National Eye Institute, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery by age 80. LSU organic chemist Bill Daly and his team are turning to an unlikely source to aid in cataract treatment: beans. MORE>>

Theatre Through a Microscope
A diverse team will be working on the production of Cocktail, a play exploring issues surrounding the medication and treatment of HIV/AIDS in both scientific and social perspectives. Participants include not only participants from the LSU Department of Theatre and Swine Palace , but also from LSU's Departments of Communication Studies and Biological Sciences, and a New York-based theatre. MORE>>

The Green Plastic
Researchers from LSU's Institute for Ecological Infrastructure Engineering and the School of Human Ecology are advancing developments in a new, unfamiliar substance known as bioplastic—plastic that can be thrown into your family's compost pile and biodegrade in a few months. MORE>>