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Advancing digital media and combating poverty
become the newest research directives
at Louisiana's flagship university.

LSU announces the launch of a multidisciplinary investigation into the nature of poverty, drawing broad-based expertise from social work, political science, economics and human ecology, and a second unique initiative combining the visual, musical and literary arts with advanced technologies and computational sciences.

The new programs, comprised of diverse groups of current faculty and anticipated, high-profile hires, are winners of a competitive selection process called the Multidisciplinary Hiring Initiative... [Read More].

MHI Programs Underway:
Louisiana Poverty Initiative
AVATAR Initiative
Atlantic Studies
Materials Science & Engineering
Computational Science

 

Why MHI?

Because universities thrive on connections.

LSU encourages research across disciplines and actively recruits the best in scholarship, industry and government.

Pursuing our National Flagship Agenda to enhance the faculty and expand the focus of research at LSU, we proudly introduce the Multidisciplinary Hiring Initiatives.

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