Specialized facilities include laboratories for operant and other behaviors, brain imaging, cell culture, and neurochemistry. The Department of Physiology and Biophysics occupies 12,000 square feet of space that is fully equipped for research with cellular, organ, and whole animal models of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys. Complete facilities are available for intravital video microscopy, confocal microscopy and image analysis, cell culture, subcellular fractionation, antibody production, immunocytochemistry, protein and lipid analysis, chromatography, and computer data acquisition and analysis. Financial Aid Financial support in the form of assistantships and waiver of tuition fees is available. These assistantships are at or above the level of those of the National Institutes of Health and are awarded on a competitive basis.
Tuition is waived for all qualified students.
Living and Housing Costs Furnished and unfurnished apartments and houses, offered at a wide range of rents, are available throughout the city. A listing is maintained by the Office of Student Affairs at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center. There are about 100 students enrolled in the graduate programs at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport. Location Shreveport is located in northwest Louisiana, where climate and geography combine to offer year-round recreational opportunities. The metropolitan area has a population of about 350,000.