Name: LSU Science Café: How LSU Won $160 Million to Transform Energy in Louisiana
Start: 2024-05-28T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-28T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Varsity Theatre & Facebook Livestream

$LSU Science Caf\u00e9: How LSU Won $160 Million to Transform Energy in Louisiana$

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About this Event

Earlier this year, LSU won the largest grant ever awarded by the National Science Foundation, $160 million, to secure the future of energy in Louisiana. From research and technology development to jobs to making sure new energy solutions are both useful and used by industry, LSU led a team of more than 50 partners to come up with a winning proposal. The team, called FUEL, which stands for Future Use of Energy in Louisiana, brings together higher education institutions across the state with capital, trade, and economic development partners and international energy companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and BakerHughes, all supported by the state of Louisiana which invested an additional $67.5 million in the effort. But how do you do this? How do you build such a big team? How is it possible to engineer such a historic win for Louisiana? Join us at Science Café to find out.

About the Speaker

Andrew J. Maas is associate vice president for research at LSU where he leads the Office of Innovation & Ecosystem Development, LSU Innovation Park, and Louisiana’s winning FUEL team. With more than 16 years of experience in technology licensing and commercialization, Maas was recently named board chair of AUTM, a global nonprofit whose members support the conversion of academic research into solutions used by communities, businesses, states, and nations.

Photo credit: LSU.

LSU Science Café is presented in partnership with Campus Federal Credit Union and WRKF.

Registration & Attendance Information

The event is open to the public and advance registration through Eventbrite is recommended.

If you are attending in-person, please print your registration ticket or have it available on your electronic device upon arrival. Doors open at 5:00 PM. Event begins at 6:00 PM.

If you are attending virtually, access to the live event will be available through Facebook Live. A Facebook account is not required to view the event livestream.

The event broadcast will be closed captioned, and a recording of the event will be made available on the LSU Research YouTube channel shortly after the event.