Students and Faculty Excel in Scholarships and Fellowships
December 25, 2022
This year saw increased national recognition of outstanding LSU student and faculty success. Here are some of our outstanding scholars and researchers.
Udall Scholar
LSU sophomore Bridget Seghers from Covington was selected to be a 2022 Udall Scholar by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. She is the only Udall Scholar from Louisiana.
Read more about Bridget Seghers
Goldwater Scholar
LSU junior Cale Locicero from Metairie was selected to be a 2022 Goldwater Scholar. He is a chemistry major and the vice president of faculty relations for the LSU Discover Undergraduate Research Program. He is the 39th Barry M. Goldwater Scholar at LSU.
NSF CAREER Awards
Four LSU researchers have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious grant for early-career faculty, who exhibit potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. This highly competitive grant supports an individual’s research helping build a firm foundation for a lifetime of research and academic leadership.
LSU School of Education Assistant Professor Yu April Chen was funded to pursue her research into boosting the four-year degree completion rate
of underrepresented racial minority transfer students and to promote racial equity
in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.
read more about dr. yu april chen
LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Assistant Professor Matthew Hiatt has been funded to research complex coastal hydrological processes that are critical
to predicting future impacts of coastal restoration strategies and evaluating their
efficacy, especially in light of global issues such as sea-level rise.
Read more about Dr. Matthew Hiatt
LSU Department of Mathematics Assistant Professor Rui Han was funded to pursue his research on the study of electrons in a lattice material structure, such as graphene, under external magnetic fields.
LSU Department of Psychology Associate Professor Don Zhang was funded to pursue his research on the impacts of risk takers in the workplace.
Carnegie Fellows
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has selected two LSU faculty members to be among this year’s 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. They were selected from nearly 300 nominees and are the first Carnegie Fellows in LSU history.
LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Associate Professor Joshua P. Darr will work with the American Journalism Project, a venture philanthropy fund for local
news, to study the local impact of opening new nonprofit newsrooms. Additionally,
he will work with Trusting News, a journalism training organization with many affiliated
newsrooms, to detail how journalists handle polarizing topics and assess what sorts
of language and editing choices can bring back readers who have lost trust in their
local news.
Read more about Dr. Joshua Darr
LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology Professor Andrew Sluyter's research delves into understanding racialized places and landscapes in order to contribute
to decolonization, a more equitable and inclusive society and more sustainable and
just relationships with nature. The Carnegie Fellowship will support his project titled,
“Slavery and Higher Education: New Narratives on the Plantation Past, New Places for
Racial Equity.” This project will help colleges built on former slave plantations
to understand that aspect of campus place identity in relation to higher education’s
racial inequities.
Read more about Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Guggenheim Fellow
LSU Boyd Professor of History Suzanne Marchand has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for intellectual and cultural
history. She is a faculty member in the LSU Department of History. Marchand is among
a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals the Board of Trustees of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved as Guggenheim Fellows. Chosen from a rigorous
application and peer review process out of nearly 2,500 applicants, Marchand and this
year’s fellows were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.