Office of the President
Leading LSU Forward
Since joining LSU, President Rousse has been hard at work—meeting with students, faculty, and staff, listening to the community, and building a strong foundation for the work ahead.
We Build Teams that Win
Across Louisiana, 336 LSU Health students celebrated Match Day, with nearly half staying in-state for residency. As physician shortages grow, LSU continues training and retaining doctors while placing graduates in top programs nationwide.
Most of us see wastewater as exactly that: waste. Something to be treated and purified before it can be useful to society again. But increasingly, LSU researchers are looking at wastewater and seeing it as a vast untapped resource that can inform and improve public health.
Students in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture are helping design the places where Louisiana lives, works, and gathers — while learning how thoughtful design can strengthen communities, restore ecosystems, and prepare the state for the challenges ahead.
In the heart of Cajun country, Allen Mclain farms about 3,000 acres of rice together with his wife, father, and two younger brothers. Much of their crop, all south of LA-14, is under threat. But Mclain is working with an LSU researcher, Naohiro Kato, on a solution: growing microalgae alongside rice.
Since its inception in 2017, the Rural Track Scholars Program at LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Dentistry has successfully placed 11 dental graduates in rural Louisiana communities. Once established in rural areas, dentists tend to stay. As many as three out of four dentists and dental healthcare professionals in Louisiana graduated from LSU.
While parishes have yet to be compared with each other and with rural counties in America, one of the key takeaways so far is this: Your health is strongly tied to your education level—and much more so than to your income or age.