Education News

206 LSU Health Shreveport students representing the largest graduating class to date celebrated the culmination of hundreds of hours of academic accomplishment by graduating with a Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or Doctorate degree on May 21, 2022. Dr. William F. Tate IV, President of LSU gave the keynote commencement address.

Bossier Press - Fortune, the American business magazine, recently named LSU Health Shreveport’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program fourth in the nation in its first-ever MPH program ranking. The MPH program is a collaborative effort between LSU Shreveport and LSU Health Shreveport. 

Bossier Press - LSU Health Shreveport students Zachary Connelly, Ross Rieger and Evan Falgoust are the student founders behind Guise Medical, winning 1st place in the J Terrell Brown Venture Challenge for their patented MED-pal device with an $18,000 award.

Graduate Student Appreciation Week was a week long celebration of our students in the School of Graduate Studies and included a Town Hall, along with wellness and social events.

The LSU Health Sciences Foundation of Shreveport hosted a Topping Out Ceremony celebrating the final structural beam being placed at the Center for Medical Education at LSU Health Shreveport on Wednesday, March 30. In addition, Ochsner LSU Health System announced an additional $8 million gift to the project.

The annual LSUHS School of Allied Health Professions (SAHP) Research Night event took place Thursday, March 17^th, 2022. The SAHP Grants and Research Committee selected twenty two peer-reviewed research posters representing most of the programs in the school.

140 LSUHS School of Medicine students learned where they will go for their residency training on March 18, 2022. For Match applicants, Match Day symbolizes the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education, the day when they learn which residency training program they will attend as they begin their careers as physicians.

LSUHS is once again offering their Summer Student Leadership Program which targets undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in business and administration disciplines who seek to learn the daily business operations of a higher education institution. Program participants will serve in the capacity of student workers in different administrative departments at LSUHS.

Second-year medical students at LSU Health Shreveport's School of Medicine celebrated a milestone in their journey to becoming a physician, when they donned their white coats on Saturday, March 5, 2022.