CHEMISTRY & MATERIALS BUILDING
OUTSTANDING FACULTY RESEARCHERS & SCHOLARS The College of Science boasts some of the nation’s most acclaimed faculty researchers and scholars, 30 of whom are Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s, largest general scientific society.
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LSU System Boyd Professor of Biological Sciences Meredith Blackwell was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences joining some of the world’s leading “thinkers and doers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Winston Churchill.
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Chris Austin, LSU Herpetologist and curator of herpetology in the Museum of Natural Science made national headlines with the discovery of the world’s smallest vertebrate. The tiny frog, called Paedophryne amauensis was discovered during a three-month expedition to New Guinea.
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Sophie Warny, assistant professor of palynology in the Department of Geology & Geophysics and curator of education in LSU’s Museum of Natural Science, collaborated with scientists from the University of Southern California and NASA’s Chemistry and Materials Building Jet Propulsion Laboratory to publish a paper in Nature Geoscience highlighting research demonstrating that ancient global warming allowed LSU Professor of Physics & Astronomy greening in Antarctica. This study will help Bradley Schaefer and astronomer Ashley scientists better understand what the future of Pagnotta discovered the solution to one climate change may look like. of the long-standing fundamental problems of astrophysics: what produces thermonuclear supernovae? Their findings represent the Isiah Warner, LSU System Boyd Professor culmination of more than 40 years of worldwide and vice chancellor of strategic initiatives, is study. Schaefer was also invited to the 2011 Nobel the 2013 recipient of the American Chemical Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden for his Society’s Award in Analytical Chemistry, a contribution to research that led to the discovery of prestigious honor awarded by the world’s largest the accelerated expansion of the Universe due to scientific society and one of the world’s leading “dark energy.” sources of authoritative scientific information.
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Mathematics Professor Michael Malisoff partnered with professors and students at Georgia Tech and the College of William and Mary to develop marine robotic methods to survey weathered crude oil off the coast of Louisiana.
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Warner’s research involves fundamental studies in analytical chemistry as well as the development and application of new methods (chemical, instrumental and mathematical), for analytical measurements.
Photo (left to right): Chris Austin, Isiah Warner, Sophie Warny, and Bradley Schaefer
MAINTAINING OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PROGRAMS & FACILITIES
Completed June 2012, the five-story Chemistry and Materials Building provides more than 85,000 square feet of cuttingedge research space. This facility will expand the University’s research capacity in synthetic chemistry and provide critical infrastructure for interdisciplinary research in materials science & engineering.
The marine robots can detect pollutants and take sediment and water samples while their human controllers remain safe on dry ground.
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