Welcome to a community where you are encouraged to explore, a place where answering important questions and finding solutions to our most pressing challenges is just what we do. From the microscopic to the intergalactic, our students and faculty are working together to build a healthier, safer, and more inclusive future.
Discover your academic home in the LSU College of Science by exploring our departments:
Faculty named
AAAS Fellows
Patents secured over the past five years
Federal funding over the past five years
Join us for a spooky Super Science Saturday this Halloween! This free event invites K–12 students, families, and science fans of all ages to see science in action.
Date: October 31, 2026
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM
Location: LSU Pete Maravich Assembly Center - Upper Level Concourse
The new Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building is a dynamic hub for collaboration, innovation, and discovery at LSU. Designed to bring together faculty and students across scientific disciplines, the state-of-the-art facility supports nearly $37 million in annual research awards while advancing hands-on learning, cutting-edge research, and healthcare innovation in Louisiana and beyond.
Learn MoreAn LSU-led, $1.31 million NSF-funded project will investigate how prescribed fires affect soil bacteria and fungi in longleaf pine forests across the southeastern United States. Led by biologist Gaurav Kandlikar, the five-year study will establish a regional research network to better understand how fire shapes soil microbial communities and forest ecosystems.
LSU biologist Igor Schneider is investigating the molecular signals that tell cells to regenerate rather than simply heal after injury. Supported by a $1.875 million NIH MIRA (R35), his lab will compare regeneration across axolotls, African lungfish, Senegal bichir, and lizards to identify signaling pathways shared across regenerative species. Using spatial transcriptomics, single-nucleus RNA sequencing, and CRISPR, the team aims to uncover a conserved “pro-regenerative signaling toolkit.”
LSU physicist Constantin Schrade and collaborator Mathias S. Scheurer have developed a new theory for controlling how electrons move through altermagnets, an emerging class of magnetic materials. Their work shows that changing the material’s microscopic magnetic patterns could steer electrons in different directions depending on their spin. The findings give scientists new predictions to test and could eventually help researchers control how spin-based information moves through future electronic technologies.
