In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the LSU community rallied together, doing what they do best – using their talent, ingenuity, resiliency and fighting spirit to support the state and the nation. They used every tool in our collective arsenal to work together for the state and for the future.
Wayne Newhauser
The journey to produce thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment, or PPE, started in the garage of LSU Medical Physics Program Director Wayne Newhauser.
Bret Elderd and Tad Dallas
How do you forecast a spreading pandemic? To answer that question, LSU disease ecologists Bret Elderd and Tad Dallas are working to create predictive epidemic models with a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Rapid Response Research Program.
Paige Carter
At the start of the pandemic, Paige Carter got to work linking the needs of the state’s citizens to industry partners and LSU’s experts to find solutions.
John Pojman, Anthony Mai and David Spivak
As fear over the spreading pandemic grew, store shelves holding cleaning supplies and hand sanitizers became empty.
Scott Wilks
LSU School of Social Work Professor Scott E. Wilks is focused on helping the state’s older population, and as the COVID-19 pandemic grew, he got to work to address the virus’ impact on Louisiana families who take care of loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, or ADRD.
David Stamps
The Manship School of Mass Communication assistant professor and a Reilly Center research affiliate is taking a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting Black communities.
Rebecca Christofferson
LSU professors Rebecca Christofferson and Stephania Cormier set up a lab inside the School of Veterinary Medicine to help alleviate the pressure on statewide medical facilities and later developed a saliva-based test to track COVID-19.
Aaron Cherry, Gerald Sansoni and William Speyrer
In order to ramp up production of personal protective equipment, or PPE, inside the PMAC, members of the Facility Services team hit the ground running to create a production facility inside a basketball arena.
Greg Trahan
As the director of economic development for LSU’s Office of Research & Economic Development, Greg Trahan works to build partnerships between industry, government, and LSU’s research and faculty.
John Pardue
To track the spread of COVID-19, LSU researchers tested wastewater in areas of East Baton Rouge, as well as places on campus, as SARS-CoV-2 is present in sewage.
Stephania Cormier
LSU professors Rebecca Christofferson and Stephania Cormier set up a lab inside the School of Veterinary Medicine to help alleviate the pressure on statewide medical facilities and later developed a saliva-based test to track COVID-19.
Gus Kousoulas
As head of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Konstantin “Gus” Kousoulas is using his expertise as a molecular virologist and vaccinologist to find a treatment for COVID-19.
Mark Benfield
As the number of COVID-19 positive cases grew in the state of Louisiana, so did the calls for citizens to wear masks, and not just for those who work in health care.