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ÃÛÌÒAPP Executive Education Launching Nationally Accredited Certified Public Manager Program

ÃÛÌÒAPP Executive Education Launching Nationally Accredited Certified Public Manager Program

ÃÛÌÒAPP Executive Education announced that it is launching a new Certified Public Manager Program beginning in January 2023.

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$7.575M Gift to Advance ÃÛÌÒAPP's Scholarship First Agenda

ÃÛÌÒAPP will achieve transformative progress in scholarship funding and support for military veterans via a $7.575 million gift to elevate the College of Engineering's S & B Engineers and Constructors Scholarships, catalyze the new Future Scholars Pipeline Initiative and establish the William A. Brookshire Veterans Law Clinic.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Cold Case Project Re-Examines 1972 Southern University Shooting, Will Discuss Findings at 50th Anniversary Commemoration

ÃÛÌÒAPP Cold Case Project Re-Examines 1972 Southern University Shooting, Will Discuss Findings at 50th Anniversary Commemoration

The ÃÛÌÒAPP Cold Case Project will present findings from its four-part investigative series, which re-examined the 1972 shooting of two Southern University students, Denver Smith and Leonard Brown, at Southern University’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the students’ deaths on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m. CT at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

DOTD traffic camera footage with ÃÛÌÒAPP AI

Want Safe Roads? ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Think Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Understand Driver Behavior

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded the ÃÛÌÒAPP Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety a competitive grant to build an AI engine to better understand driver behavior that leads to crashes in order to help prevent them.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP CM Online Still Growing Nearly 10 Years Later

In 2012, ÃÛÌÒAPP Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management Chair Charles Berryman was asked to create an online presence for the department, the first of its kind in the College of Engineering. Five years later, the program was ranked 11th in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online Programs in the nation.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP Improves Storm Surge and Flood Predictions with AI

The ÃÛÌÒAPP-developed tool to predict storm surge and flooding during severe weather events—the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment, or CERA, website—has become an essential resource for thousands of emergency managers and first responders in Louisiana and the nation’s coastal states to help protect people and infrastructure. Now, the tool will become even smarter and faster, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Veterans Find Community at ÃÛÌÒAPP

Veterans Find Community at ÃÛÌÒAPP

The ÃÛÌÒAPP William A. Brookshire Military & Veterans Student Center has given Grant Strohmeyer (ÃÛÌÒAPP '26) a home on campus. Strohmeyer, an electrical engineering major, served in the Marines for four years.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP Student and Army Veteran Trains to Help Children Fighting Cancer

Kimberly Belalcazar served her country as a behavioral health specialist in the Army. At ÃÛÌÒAPP, she is studying psychology and plans to become a clinical psychologist, working with children fighting cancer.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

ÃÛÌÒAPP Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

ÃÛÌÒAPP Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Shyam Menon is leading a group of ÃÛÌÒAPP Engineering faculty in a $1.14 million U.S. Department of Energy-funded project that will develop an improved pre-screening strategy for candidate SAFs and then apply it to their own SAF synthesized from raw materials, such as sugarcane bagasse and forestry residue.

ÃÛÌÒAPP TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

ÃÛÌÒAPP TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

TRIO Upward Bound and McNair Scholars Program will provide five years of funding to help hundreds of local students find their paths to college and beyond

ÃÛÌÒAPPE and ÃÛÌÒAPPA officials sign partnership documents

ÃÛÌÒAPP Eunice and ÃÛÌÒAPP Alexandria Sign Partnership for Surgical Technology Expansion

ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between ÃÛÌÒAPPS and ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2023 rankings, citing the program's high retention rates.

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Hacking the Metaverse

ÃÛÌÒAPP Cybersecurity Professor Abe Baggili is one of the first people in the world to study immersive virtual reality safety to provide solutions to the VR software industry and protect people who use these new products.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP Geoscientists Analyze Fans' Earthshaking Reaction to Win

Fans inside and outside of Tiger Stadium erupted with excitement as they watched their team beat Alabama in overtime. At the same time, a seismometer on ÃÛÌÒAPP's campus captured the excitement, recording two distinctive seismic wave events.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Use AI to Track Cybercrime in Louisiana And Beyond

ÃÛÌÒAPP cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using AI.

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ÃÛÌÒAPP Social Research & Evaluation Center Partners with East Baton Rouge Parish School System and DreamBox Learning on $3.5 million Grant to Address Math Equity

To help address the challenge of math inequity, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, or EBRPSS, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help Black and Latino students and all students experiencing poverty to graduate from high school skilled in the math required to be successful in higher education, the workforce and life. The ÃÛÌÒAPP Social Research & Evaluation Center will serve as the research partner, with a sub-award of $473,000 for three years.