Question: Are Louisiana State University and the University of Washington both public institutions?

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Louisiana State University Agricultural Center: The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, or the LSU AgCenter, is headquartered in Baton Rouge.  The center conducts agricultural-based research through its Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and extends the knowledge derived from research to the people of the state of Louisiana through its Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service.  The LSU AgCenter, one of 11 institutions within the Louisiana State University System, shares physical facilities with the LSU A&M campus.

LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, also known as LSU Health Shreveport, is an academic center for medicine and medical research in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana, USA.  It is part of the Louisiana State University System.  It was established as the Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport in 1966; Edgar Hull – who in 1931 had worked to establish the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans – was the first dean, from 1966 until he retired in 1973.

University System of Georgia: The University System of Georgia (USG) is the State of Georgia Government Agency that includes 28 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia.  The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents.  It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering Public Library Service of the state which includes 58 public library systems.  The USG also dispenses public funds (allocated by the state's legislature) to the institutions but not the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship.  The USG is the fifth largest university system in the United States by total student enrollment, with 318,027 students in 28 public institutions.  The four larger systems are the University System of Ohio, City University of New York, California State University, and the State University of New York.  USG institutions are divided into four categories depending on their mission statements.  The categories include research universities, state universities, state colleges and regional universities.

Louisiana State University: Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy.  The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre (2.6 km²) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Edgar Hull: Edgar Hull, Jr. (February 20, 1904 – October 24, 1984), was a physician from Louisiana and in 1931 a founding faculty member of the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans.  In 1966, he became the first Dean of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport (now the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport).  After his retirement, Hull contradicted the historian T. Harry Williams' account of the assassination and death of Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Long.

Louisiana Geological Survey: The Louisiana Geological Survey is a state geological survey established by the Louisiana legislature by Act 131 in 1934 to serve the citizens Louisiana by collecting, preserving, and disseminating impartial information on the geomorphology, hydrogeology, geology, paleontology, economic geology, and geological resources of Louisiana.  The Louisiana Geological Survey was originally part of the Louisiana Department of Conservation.  Later it was a division of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and finally transferred by the Louisiana legislature's HB 2353 to Louisiana State University.  At Louisiana State University, it is part of the Office of Research and Economic Development.

Turner Browne: Turner Browne was born on July 6, 1949 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  From 1969 to 1970 he attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.  He is a self-taught photographer and has worked with all film formats as well as digital.  In 1973, the Sunflower Foundation gave him a grant which launched his career.  In 1977 "Louisiana Cajuns" was published by the Louisiana State University Press, a monograph of his documentation of the rural Cajuns; the text is in both English and French.  The same year a documentary film called "The New Klan" was released in which he was the lead cinematographer.  Two years later he was the director of photography on the feature film "Only Once in a Lifetime".  In 1987 The French Institute in New York City exhibited Louisiana Cajuns; from there the work was exhibited nationally.  In 2000 Browne donated his Louisiana Cajun collection to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He co-authored "The Macmillan Dictionary of Photographic Artists and Innovators" with his wife, author Elaine Bernstein Partnow; it was published in 1983.  A monograph of his documentary work on the White River of Arkansas, "The Last River", was published in 1993; the book inspired director Jeff Nichols in his making of the film "Mud".  Currently Turner works as a photographer and videographer in Los Angeles.

John Desmond: John Jacob Desmond (April 5, 1922 – March 27, 2008) was an American architect in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who designed such public buildings as the Baton Rouge River Center, the Louisiana State University Student Union, Bluebonnet Swamp Interpretive Center, Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Louisiana State Archives, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State Library, and the Louisiana Naval Museum.  He also designed the United States Embassy building in Monrovia, Liberia, the Lindy Boggs Center (named for former U.S. Representative Corrine "Lindy" Boggs) at his own "alma mater", Tulane University in New Orleans, and the cafeteria at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, the principal city of Tangipahoa Parish.

University of Washington: The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally "U-Dub") is a large, public flagship research university in Seattle, Washington, established in 1861.

Fred B. Kniffen: Fred Bowerman Kniffen (January 18, 1900 – May 19, 1993) was an American Geographer and distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University for over 64 years.  Kniffen had a background in Anthropology, Geography, and Geology when he arrived at Louisiana State University in the late 1920s.  While there, he made great strides in the Department of Geography and Anthropology that led to the development of new research areas, additional courses, and well trained graduate students.  Kniffen stressed the importance of learning and understanding the History of Geography, along with blending Physical Geography and Anthropology with Cultural Geography.  During Kniffen's time at Louisiana State University, he was an advocate for interdisciplinary research.  Kniffen became a distinguished professor in the department in 1966, later becoming Boyd professor in 1967.

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Answer: yes