CHSE Faculty
Faculty at the Forefront
The College of Human Sciences & Education faculty are at the forefront — making the world a better place to live.
CHSE faculty cultivate future leaders who are innovative problem-solvers that seek to have a positive impact on society. We develop cutting-edge, high-quality research and leverage human capital to address the most pressing societal challenges facing the state, nation, and world.
We are committed to pursuing the highest and best version of ourselves, knowing that our excellence can empower transformation in the world.
70
Tenure or Tenure-track Faculty
2022-2023
149
Articles Published
2022-2023
$8.1M
Total Research Expenditures
2022-2023
Meet the CHSE Faculty
CHSE Faculty reside in the College's five academic units that are devoted to developing leaders and scholars of the future and creating and disseminating knowledge through transformational research.
Faculty News
Brian Irving, PhD, was selected as one of the 100 members of the first ever cohort of Meauxmentum Scholars, an initiative started by the Louisiana Board of Regents. Learn more about his selection and plans for the cohort's future.
LSU School of Information Studies celebrates the life of acclaimed young adult author Richard Peck and his lasting legacy on LSU.
The LSU School of Information Studies welcomes Dr. Kathleen Campana as the new Patsy H. Perritt Chair in Youth Services, a gift from the acclaimed YA author Richard Peck. With a focus on enhancing learning environments for children and families, Dr. Campana brings extensive research experience to this position. Discover her vision for improving library and information services for underserved communities in Louisiana.
Timothy Page, PhD, has authored a new book titled Psychosocial Theories of Human Behavior and Development: An Evolution of Big Ideas. He aims to educate students across the various helping professions with his latest publication.
The LSU Writing Project held its first place-based Invitational Summer Institute on Mallard Island in the Rainy Lake Watershed, north of International Falls, Minnesota. Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, PhD, director of the LSU Writing Project, submitted a proposal to the Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation to host the week-long writing institute.
Cynthia DiCarlo, PhD was awarded the 2024 National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) Foundation Established Career Early Teacher Educator Research Grant Award Winner. Dr. DiCarlo was selected as the top-scoring application after the review by a team of NAECTE peer reviewers for her project "Child Sustained Attention in One-Year-Olds." This project is part of a research series that has focused on identifying which teaching conditions (child choice, adult choice, or adult presentation) that elicit increased levels of engagement based on child age. Previous research on four-year-olds, three-year-olds, and two-year-olds has noted distinct differences in child attention based on teaching conditions. The goal of this project is to help provide direction to practitioners on the best teaching conditions to use with children at different ages to increase children's attention and engagement with materials. DiCarlo will be recognized at the National NAECTE conference on November 6 in Anaheim, California.
LSU Kinesiology Professor Senlin Chen, PhD, and his team are developing a novel obesity prevention program to use in Louisiana schools, combining such tactics as virtual pets and coaches with the best science to encourage healthy behaviors.