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October 2025
- Friday, 10/10/2025
- LSU PhD Candidate Phong Dang selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow
September 2025
- Thursday, 09/25/2025
- Manipulating quantum material by engineering non-classical states of light
July 2025
- Thursday, 07/31/2025
- Pinpointing Magnetic Mysteries and Mechanisms in a Layered Perovskite
- Tuesday, 07/22/2025
- Hunter Meyer Awarded Dr. Charles M. Smith Scholarship
- Wednesday, 07/16/2025
- LSU Astrophysicists Receive Prestigious European Physical Society Award
- Wednesday, 07/16/2025
- Super-resolution X-ray Technique Reveals Atomic Insights with Unprecedented Detail
- Tuesday, 07/15/2025
- Detection of the Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
April 2025
- Tuesday, 04/29/2025
- Astrophysicists Strike Gold
March 2025
- Friday, 03/28/2025
- Lights, camera, photon!
- Friday, 03/07/2025
- Scientists Uncover Novel Laser-Induced Spatio-temporal Order in Solids
- Friday, 03/07/2025
- Bringing Scientists Together for Quantum Collaboration
December 2024
- Monday, 12/16/2024
- LSU Senior Postdoc Receives Japanese Young Scientist Award
- Tuesday, 12/03/2024
- You Too Can Database: A Roadmap for Creating Specialty Databases & Web Portals
November 2024
- Thursday, 11/21/2024
- PhD Candidate Aaron Trigg Receives NASA's Prestigious FINESST Fellowship
- Thursday, 11/14/2024
- Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era
- Thursday, 11/14/2024
- Medical Physics PhD Candidate Awarded Best in Physics Imaging at 2024 AAPM
October 2024
- Tuesday, 10/15/2024
- Maxwell Cole Awarded Charles M. Smith Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
September 2024
- Wednesday, 09/18/2024
- From Fields to Modeling: Navigating the Unexpected Journey to Becoming a Researcher
- Wednesday, 09/18/2024
- LSU Boyd Professor Elected Vice President of American Physical Society
- Friday, 09/06/2024
- Department Chair Jeffery Blackmon Named to SEC Leadership Program for LSU
August 2024
- Thursday, 08/22/2024
- Fox Foley Captures Fantastically Small Images at ORNL
- Thursday, 08/22/2024
- Beatriz Elizaga Navascués Awarded Bronstein Prize
- Thursday, 08/08/2024
- Mette Gaarde Named LSU Distinguished Research Master
June 2024
- Tuesday, 06/11/2024
- NASA Space Mission Named for the Late LSU Professor Arlo Landolt
May 2024
- Tuesday, 05/14/2024
- Two LSU Physics Alumni Receive NSF GRFP
April 2024
- Thursday, 04/25/2024
- Joseph Giaime Named 2023 AAAS Fellow
March 2024
- Thursday, 03/21/2024
- Catherine Deibel named 2024 LSU Mid-Career Rainmaker in STEM
- Friday, 03/01/2024
- Multiparticle Nanostructures for Building Better Quantum Technologies
January 2024
- Wednesday, 01/17/2024
- Richard Lesieur Awarded Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
December 2023
- Monday, 12/04/2023
- 2013 PhD Alumna Receives FIAP Career Lectureship Award
November 2023
- Thursday, 11/16/2023
- CALET Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
October 2023
- Wednesday, 10/25/2023
- NASA's Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger
- Monday, 10/09/2023
- Meet the astrophysicist who is working to make parking easier
- Monday, 10/02/2023
- Physics & Astronomy Welcomes New Faculty Members
September 2023
- Tuesday, 09/26/2023
- Nathaniel Wrobel - Student Spotlight
- Wednesday, 09/13/2023
- Kenneth J. Schafer Honored as Boyd Professor, LSU’s Highest Professorial Ranking
May 2023
- Friday, 05/26/2023
- Scientists Discover Light Conversion in Free Space
- Monday, 05/15/2023
- 2022 - 2023 Department of Physics & Astronomy Annual Awards
April 2023
- Monday, 04/17/2023
- Medical Physics Graduate Student Sydney Carr Shares her Research Experience
- Friday, 04/14/2023
- LSU Physics Professor Receives Esteemed NSF CAREER Award
- Thursday, 04/13/2023
- E. Ward Plummer 2023 LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction Honoree
- Monday, 04/10/2023
- LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy