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Neighborhood Arts Project Summer Dates with LSU Museum of Art
LSU Museum of Art's Neighborhood Arts Project, which provides free art activities in East Baton Rouge Parish under pop-up tents at sites, is returning this summer. At sites listed in the summer schedule below, LSU MOA will set up tents for families and children to stop by and create art.
Programs at LSU Museum of Art with Visiting Artist Jenelle Esparza
State of the Art: Record artist Jenelle Esparza will be at the LSU Museum of Art (LSU MOA) for a series of museum and community programs on June 16 and 17 including a Museum Open House en Español with activities, gallery talks, a free educator workshop, and a closing reception. Schedule of programming listed below.
App Boosts Preschoolers’ Motor Skills
Preventing childhood obesity could soon take a major “hop” forward with an app that teaches kids to do just that, and to skip, run and throw a ball.
LSU Cybersecurity Offerings, Capabilities to Expand with FIREStarter 2
Last fall, LSU announced a new initiative named FIREStarter, which would provide students with training in cybersecurity and threat analysis through the creation of a lab for cyber range exercises. These exercises would be conducted in partnership with Louisiana State Police and industry to simulate real-time cyberattacks on large-scale enterprise and control systems.
LSU Health New Orleans Nursing School Ranked #10 in U.S.
Nursing Schools Almanac has just released its 2022 rankings of the best U.S. nursing schools. LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is ranked the #10 nursing school in the U.S. and the #5 nursing school among public nursing schools.
Mario Moore: Responding to History Opens July 14 at LSU Museum of Art
LSU MOA is pleased to present Mario Moore: Responding to History. Featuring two paintings and two drawings, the showing provides an in-depth look at Moore’s nuanced artwork During and After the Battle.
2022 'Dead Zone' May Remain Three Times Larger than the Goal Established in 2001
A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2022 is that it will cover 5,881 square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas.
2022 Hurricane Season: LSU Experts Available
LSU has a number of experts available to discuss topics related to storm preparedness, climate, economic impacts, recovery efforts and more during the 2022 hurricane season.
Blurring Boundaries is on View at LSU Museum of Art July 14–October 23, 2022
An awe-inspiring celebration of an intergenerational group of artists—one that is both comprehensive and long overdue—Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present highlights the indelible ways in which the women of American Abstract Artists have, for more than eighty years, shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.
LSU School of Kinesiology to Hold 10th Annual Louisiana Parkinson’s Conference
The LSU School of Kinesiology announces the 10th Annual Louisiana Parkinson’s Conference. This year’s event will take place in-person for the first time since 2020 and will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2022 from 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the C. B. Pennington Jr. Conference Center.