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When LSU student Colby Faust landed a competitive engineering internship with Nike, he turned his lifelong love for sneakers into a professional opportunity. From leading process improvements to visiting Nike’s world headquarters, Colby’s experience showed him that with hard work and belief in yourself, even the biggest dreams are within reach.

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.

LSU Coastal Environmental Science major Paris Ally spent her summer interning with the Naval Oceanographic Operations Command through the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Working alongside Navy professionals, she discovered how her scientific skills could support real-world naval operations—proving that career paths in her field go far beyond the shoreline.