LSU Cain Department of Chemical Engineering Professor Krishnaswamy Nandakumar recently received the American Association for The Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows Award. AAAS Fellows are recognized for their extraordinary achievements across disciplines including research, teaching, technology, services to professional societies, administration in academia, industry and government, and communicating and interpreting science to the public.

LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Chris Marvel and his fellow collaborators from Lehigh University, Ohio State University, and the Army Research Laboratory recently had their research on lightweight high entropy metallic alloys published in the Science journal.

LSU researchers have been awarded a $1.5 million Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems, or POSE, grant from the National Science Foundation to advance the ecosystem surrounding HPX, a software library developed at LSU. Their goal is a fast and energy-efficient solution to increase worldwide access to high-performance computing. Lack of access and performance currently limits the success and usefulness of emerging technologies, such as AI and machine learning, and computational modeling in almost every field.