Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, or simply Louisiana State University (LSU) is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. LSU currently includes 9 senior colleges and 3 schools, in addition to specialized centers, divisions, institutes, and offices. Enrollment, which has increased approximately 5% recently to host students from New Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina, stands at more than 30,000 students, and there are 1,300 full-time faculty members. LSU is one of only six American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant research center.

Achievements

• The venerable Southern Review was first published by the university in 1935.
• Former Professor Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel All the King's Men in 1947.
• In 1970 LSU Professor T. Harry Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Louisiana governor Huey Long.
• John Kennedy Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for his fictional work, A Confederacy of Dunces. (The book was written while Toole was a professor at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and subsequently published by LSU Press in 1980.)
• LSU became the site of the largest acute-care field hospital in U.S. history during the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.