2024-2025 SEC ALDP LSU Fellows

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Four LSU faculty members were selected to participate in the SEC 2023-24 Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) Fellowship.

Jeffrey Blackmon

Russell B. Long Professor and Department Chair
Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Science

Professor Jeff Blackmon is the Russell B. Long Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University. He is an experimental nuclear physicist that studies nuclear reactions that are important for understanding astrophysical events like stellar explosions and the decays of short-lived atoms that influence nuclear reactor safety. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012. He has served in leadership positions within the scientific community, including on the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics. He served for eight years on the Steering Committee of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at LSU, including a term as Committee Chair. He was named Chair of the Department in 2020 and led the Department through its pandemic response. He developed the Department's Committee for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and led the first strategic planning exercise for the Department in more than a decade.

 

Tammy Dugas

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, School of Veterinary Medicine
Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Dugas began her academic career at the LSU Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in Shreveport, LA. There, she conducted cardiovascular pharmacology and toxicology research and taught both graduate and medical students. Recognizing a passion for mentoring, she served as Graduate Recruiter and then Graduate Advisor. She also engaged in faculty governance, serving as a member of the Faculty Senate and representative to the LSU Council of Faculty Advisors for six years. After 13 years at the LSUHSC, she transferred to the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge, where she continued her research and taught pharmacology to veterinary students. In 2014, she became the Research Experience and Training Coordination Core Director for the LSU Superfund Research Program, leading an interdisciplinary team of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. She also launched a graduate certificate aimed at enhancing student preparedness for veterinary school. In 2019, she became Interim Department Head and in 2020, Head of Comparative Biomedical Sciences. In that role, she discovered her passion for mentoring junior faculty and thus, initiated a bridge award and grant review program to facilitate grant writing success among junior faculty. In its inaugural year, three of its four participating faculty received funding from the NIH and NSF. Finally, in 2023, she became the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education where she is working to revise LSU Vet Med’s graduate curriculum, strengthen its DVM/PhD program, and expand its research funding portfolio. She also assumed co-directorship of the Center for Lung Biology & Disease, an NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

 

Marwa Hassan

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering
CETF Distinguished Professor; Jacobs Professor of Excellence
Director, Tran-SET Regional University Transportation Center

Prof. Marwa Hassan is the Associate Dean for academic affairs in the college of engineering at LSU. Founder and Director of the regional university transportation center Tran-SET as well as the CETF Distinguished Professor, Donald W. Clayton Distinguished Professor, and Jacobs professor of excellence in the College of Engineering at LSU. She served on LSU’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee (FSEC) from 2018-2022 and as the secretary of the FSEC in 2021-2022. She also served as the department graduate coordinator for seven years from 2012 to 2018. She was awarded the Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Medal in 2003 and was elected ASCE Fellow in 2017. Her area of expertise is evaluation and characterization of sustainable infrastructure materials and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA). Dr. Hassan has more than 25 years of industrial and academic experience in material science and characterization, LCA, and sustainable engineering. She has established a unique multi-disciplinary research and education program at LSU for undergraduate and graduate students focused on infrastructure sustainability and the use of advanced materials including nanomaterials in construction applications. Dr. Hassan has attracted research funding that exceeded $40.0 million, and has published with her students 126 refereed journal publications and 164 refereed conference proceedings. In addition, Dr. Hassan has patented multiple innovations in infrastructure materials including Engineered Cementous Composites and Self-Healing and Rejuvenating Materials for Asphalt Mixtures. She served as ASCE’s Construction Research Congress (CRC) President in 2017-2018 and is currently the Vice President of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) executive committee. She is also a member of many national research committees and organizations. Dr. Hassan led the design and construction of the first photocatalytic pavement in the US.

 

Michael Pasquier

Associate Dean of Faculty and Research, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies
Professor of Religious Studies and History

Dr. Michael Pasquier is Associate Dean of Faculty and Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies, and Professor of Religious Studies and History at LSU. His previous administrative duties at LSU include Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Director of the Master or Arts in Liberal Arts Program, Director of the Center for Collaborative Knowledge, and Director of the Religious Studies Program. At the University level, Dr. Pasquier serves as Co-Chair of the Research Advisory Group for the Southern University/LSU A&M Agenda, member of the Academic Advisory Board for the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation, and member of the Executive Committee for the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio. His work in the areas of American religious history and environmental humanities has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation.