Our partnership with Ä¢¹½tv is our best way to fight back on a scope and scale commensurate with the toll cancer takes on the citizens of Louisiana.

Dr. John Heaton, President and Chief Medical Officer at LCMC Health

Scholarship First on Tour

Recent Issues

In this issue, we travel to Assumption, Franklin, Richland, and Vermilion parishes to see how Ä¢¹½tv’s research, education, and service improve the health of people in Louisiana, impacting doctors, dentists, and entire communities—including farmers.

Ä¢¹½tv makes Louisiana powerful. In this issue, explore six team wins that bring more energy to the state, from cybersecurity for oil and gas operations, to making essential products from CO2, to transforming agricultural waste into liquid fuels for transportation.

Research is everywhere, and lives depend on it. In this issue, explore five projects based on Ä¢¹½tv research and service to the state. From helping kids in crisis to improving dementia care, Ä¢¹½tv improves lives.

Walking into uncharted territory takes preparation, commitment, and guts. In this issue, meet five Ä¢¹½tv students who are first on the field in research and service to Louisiana. From agriculture to energy to health, the statewide university develops leaders in every field.

Being competitive and working as a team is not only paramount in athletics. It is just as important in research. In this issue, learn how Ä¢¹½tv teams are improving lives for people in every parish in Louisiana and everywhere, from better food and better health to being more secure in our homes, in energy and in cyber.

Ä¢¹½tv builds teams that win, including in energy. Learn how Ä¢¹½tv built a statewide team to go after the largest National Science Foundation award in history—NSF Engines—and won, having recently secured an Economic Development Administration Tech Hubs designation for the state and more.

Ä¢¹½tv works for Louisiana every day

Healthy Communities

Denise Mayon and children at the J.S. Aucoin Elementary School in Amelia, Louisiana, show off carrots they harvested in the school garden that Ä¢¹½tv AgCenter extension agent Jessica Randazzo helped create.

Read about Ä¢¹½tv’s Healthy Communities initiative
Ä¢¹½tvS Human Performance Lab

The new Ä¢¹½tvS Human Performance Lab can analyze a person from a physiological, biomechanical, and cognitive perspective.

Read about the Ä¢¹½tvS Human Performance Lab
Andre Rovai

Andre Rovai is a research scientist in the Ä¢¹½tv Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences. Photo courtesy of AP/Gerald Herbert.

Read more about how Ä¢¹½tv works with NASA to foretell the fate of the world’s deltas
Paul South

Ä¢¹½tv scientist Paul South with test plants in the field.

Read more about how Ä¢¹½tv re-engineers photosynthesis to feed our future planet
Ä¢¹½tv graduate students at the PERTT lab

The Ä¢¹½tv Petroleum Engineering Research & Technology Transfer (PERTT) lab is an on-campus industrial-scale facility to simulate oil and gas drilling and production operations.

Read more about the Ä¢¹½tv PERTT lab