May 16, 2012
The University of New Orleans will close public access to Pontchartrain Beach effective immediately as one of several steps to prevent further swimming incidents.
May 15, 2012
If the budget bill (HB1) currently moving through the Louisiana Legislature is not amended the University of New Orleans is slated to lose $15.6 million in state appropriations.
April 26, 2012
Mark Savoff, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Entergy Corporation, will serve as the University of New Orleans’ spring 2012 commencement speaker.
April 26, 2012
University of New Orleans economist Walter “Dub” Lane has been named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Health Care Heroes for 2012. Lane is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Economics and Finance.
April 12, 2012
University of New Orleans psychology professor Robert Laird has received a three-year $515,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to study parenting new teen drivers.
April 03, 2012
University of New Orleans psychology instructor Gilda Werner Reed is one of the best undergraduate teachers in the country, according to a new book from the Princeton Review.
March 27, 2012
The University of New Orleans will hold its annual Economic Outlook and Real Estate Forecast Seminar on Friday, March 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the University Center ballroom.
March 21, 2012
Greg Williamson, who will enroll as a student at the University of New Orleans in the fall, has been awarded the Jack McCoy Scholarship from the Lint Center, a nonprofit focused on supporting the educational pursuits of the next generation of American counterintelligence and national security workers
March 05, 2012
Theatre UNO’s production of The Glass Menagerie is nominated for a Big Easy Award for “Best University Production.”
February 06, 2012
The City of New Orleans will dedicate a marker memorializing the contributions of Andrew J. Higgins and Higgins Industries of New Orleans to World War II during a ceremony on February 10.
February 01, 2012
Sixty-one percent of the property parcels in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood in Central City contain a permanent structure, while 35% are empty lots.
January 25, 2012
A University of New Orleans chapter of the international counseling honor society received the outstanding chapter award, and will be honored at a March convention in San Francisco.
February 10, 2011
The University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART) will hold a national disaster resilience workshop at the Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center February 16-18.
December 13, 2010
A $600,000 gift from Gloria Kabacoff will fund an endowed chair in the University of New Orleans Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration.
December 08, 2010
The National Evacuation Conference, co-hosted by the LSU-UNO Gulf Coast Center for Evacuation & Transportation Resiliency and the LSU Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, has resulted in the publication of special issues from the Journal of Transportation Safety & Security and the Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy journal.
December 01, 2010
A $600,000 donation from the family of Annette Weinberg Bernstein will fund an endowed chair in the management department within the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration.