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Associate Professor Kevin McPeak and PhD Graduate MaCayla Caso Reveal Sound's Potential to Transform Nanofabrication in Groundbreaking New Study
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LSU Researchers Create Low-Cost Method to Recycle Plastic
BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.
Forest’s Paper on Process Safety Still the Best 10 Years Later
BATON ROUGE, LA – In 2015, LSU Chemical Engineering Adjunct Lecturer Jerry Forest’s paper on conduct of operations, “Walk the Line,” was published in peer-reviewed journal Process Safety Progress. That same year, it won Best Paper at the Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) of the Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS).
LSU, PNNL Research Team Study Microplastics in the Atmosphere
BATON ROUGE, LA – Microplastics are sub-millimeter-sized plastic fragments, similar to or smaller than the thickness of a human hair, that present a relatively new and increasingly prevalent type of environmental pollutant.