Technology & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

🔒 Southern University is landing millions more in research funding

Southern University’s faculty were awarded about $45 million in research funding last fiscal year, up from about $28 million the previous year and $21 million the year before that, university officials report. 

🔒 LSU mechanical engineers are working on a safer football helmet

How can helmets provide even more protection for football players? That’s the challenge a team of LSU mechanical engineering researchers is tackling.

🔒 LSU AgCenter, John Deere team up on AI-aided sugarcane project 

The John Deere Company is working with the LSU AgCenter to use artificial intelligence to better predict sugarcane breeding and harvest yields.  

🔒 The Department of Defense has free cybersecrity tools for entrepreneurs 

As small businesses increasingly face cybersecurity threats, the government, specifically the Department of Defense, is stepping in to equip entrepreneurs with tools to defend against cyber attacks. 

🔒 LSU goes on defense to protect Louisiana colleges from cyberattacks

LSU’s new Security Operations Center is officially up and running―and it’s beginning to connect other universities to its system.

🔒 Veneeth Iyengar’s next economic development goal: Bridging the digital divide

Baton Rouge native Veneeth Iyengar leads Connect LA, the state broadband office, working to bridge the “digital divide” by 2029, if not sooner.

🔒 Warehouses are turning to gig workers as they compete for labor  

Logistics companies competing for workers are offering more flexibility in areas such as scheduling...

🔒 Grant will train Louisiana high schoolers on how drones can be used in agriculture  

The LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture are partnering to bring a drone training curriculum to high school students across the state.

🔒 Global security tech startup chooses Baton Rouge for its headquarters

The co-founders of Twistlock, a Silicon Valley startup, announced Tuesday that they had raised...

🔒 LSU will incorporate AI into curriculum starting next spring

LSU is adding artificial intelligence classes to its curriculums starting with the upcoming spring 2024 semester.