LSU OGDEN HONORS COLLEGE JOINS SEC-WIDE INITIATIVE EXAMINING THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS

When Jackie Zimmerman arrived at LSU as a freshman, she already knew she wanted to study cancer. What she didn't expect was that a humanities seminar would end up shaping the way she thinks about it. Fourteen years later, the Ogden Honors College alumna is now an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, where she researches pancreatic cancer and helps train the next generation of oncologists.

In this year's Sternberg Lecture, Roy Heidelberg explored how AI fits into centuries of institutional automation. The real question isn't whether machines can think, it's what happens when institutions are built to think like machines.

When Emily Demps walked into an Amazon fulfillment center this July as a new Area Manager, she was doing more than managing operations—she was putting into motion a vision for smarter, more equitable systems.