College of Liberal Arts
May 15, 2012
A graduate student in the University of New Orleans' famed jazz studies program has won the University's premier jazz studies scholarship.
May 09, 2012
The University of New Orleans proudly announces this year's winner of the Andrea Saunders Gereighty/Academy of American Poets Award.
May 09, 2012
Fine arts students in the University of New Orleans College of Liberal Arts will show their work in three end-of-semester art shows. Two art professors will also show work in a curated exhibit.
May 08, 2012
University of New Orleans planning and urban studies professor Michelle Thompson was awarded the 2012 Louisiana Special Achievement Award in Remote Sensing and GIS.
May 08, 2012
Lights, camera, action: The University of New Orleans gears up today for a weekend film festival bound to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
May 07, 2012
The University of New Orleans has seen its graduate-level public administration program double in size since crisis hit New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
May 04, 2012
Reset your radio dials: University of New Orleans associate professor and transportation expert John Renne hits the airwaves every first Saturday of the month, starting tomorrow.
May 04, 2012
The fall 2011 issue of the UNO Magazine earned an Award of Distinction in the educational institution category.
May 03, 2012
Two University of New Orleans fine arts graduate students are rounding out their UNO experience by presenting their artwork in a thesis exhibition.
May 03, 2012
The University of New Orleans College of Liberal Arts honored last month five top students with perfect grade point averages. Gary Rucker, a fixture in the New Orleans theatre and film scenes, accepted the College's award for distinguished alumnus.
May 02, 2012
University of New Orleans history professor Allan R. Millett is the winner of the 2012 Harry S. Truman Book Award. The award was announced by Clifton Truman Daniel, President Truman’s grandson and honorary chairman of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs.
April 30, 2012
A student from the University of New Orleans took home the prize last week for best illustration at a juried art exhibit that drew competition from eight other Louisiana universities.
April 27, 2012
Three vocalists well-recognized by the UNO community will perform today at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Cindy Scott, Leah Chase, and Sasha Masakowski.
April 24, 2012
Fun fact: University of New Orleans jazz studies students, faculty and alumni appear on more stages at the famed New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival each year than representatives of any other university.
April 24, 2012
The University of New Orleans Jazz Studies Program presents all-day performances this week at Jazzapalooza!
April 24, 2012
Swing notes and syncopation are rocking The Cove at the University of New Orleans this spring with the Jazz @ the Sandbar Series.
April 17, 2012
University of New Orleans President Peter J. Fos announced that Joe M. King has been named executive director of graduate programs.
April 16, 2012
U.S. News & World Report spotlights the University of New Orleans' master of public administration program in a recent report entitled “2013 Best Graduate Schools.”
April 12, 2012
University of New Orleans graduate student Lindsay Allen has been awarded a year-long Fulbright grant to work as an English language teaching assistant in Vietnam. Allen, who has maintained a 4.0 grade point average, will graduate with a Master of Fine Arts in May.
April 11, 2012
University of New Orleans political science professor Richard Frank has been named an academic fellow for 2012-13 by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and will travel to Israel later this spring for an intensive course in terrorism studies.
April 11, 2012
The University of New Orleans announces that Gary Rucker, a mainstay in the local theatre community, has been named the 2012 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumnus.
April 10, 2012
The Merritt C. Becker Jr. University of New Orleans Transportation Institute invites the UNO community to participate in New Orleans’ first Bike to Work Day, presented by Bike Easy and Entergy, on the morning of Wednesday, April 11, with a guided ride from Mid City to UNO’s lakefront campus.
April 09, 2012
Students in the University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts wrapped shooting on the annual spring film, which mimics a large, professional film production.
April 09, 2012
Southern Rep is celebrating its 25th anniversary with Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire.
March 29, 2012
University of New Orleans history professor Nikki Brown will present “Black Women, Black Politics, Black Art” on Friday night as part of the New Orleans Museum of Art Lecture Series.
March 27, 2012
More New Orleans residents say the city has become better than say it has become worse over the last five years, but compared to 2006, twice as many people in New Orleans mention crime as the biggest problem facing the city.
March 26, 2012
A poem by University of New Orleans professor Niyi Osundare will be showcased in a special broadcast series celebrating the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
March 21, 2012
University of New Orleans geography professor Peter Yaukey is featured in the cover story of the current issue of the New York Times Magazine.
March 14, 2012
Recent University of New Orleans graduate Evan Casper-Futterman has been selected to participate in the spring 2012 session of the White House Internship Program.
March 05, 2012
Theatre UNO’s production of The Glass Menagerie is nominated for a Big Easy Award for “Best University Production.”
February 27, 2012
Calvin Moret, the last surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen living in New Orleans, will speak at the National World War II Museum on Wednesday, February 29, as part of the museum’s Lagniappe Lecture series.
February 13, 2012
The City of New Orleans dedicated a historical marker honoring the contributions of Andrew Jackson Higgins and the workers of Higgins Industries during World War II.
February 08, 2012
Social entrepreneur Brian Bordainick, who has been featured on CNN, ESPN and the Today Show, will speak on the campus of the University of New Orleans on Thursday, February 9 as part of the Public Administration Student and Alumni Association speaker series.
February 07, 2012
University of New Orleans political scientist Ed Chervenak has been appointed the director of the UNO Survey Research Center, also known as the UNO Poll.
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 03, 2012
The second biennial National Evacuation Conference will be held February 7-9, 2012 in New Orleans, La. at the Hilton Riverside hotel.
February 02, 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 27, 2012
Theatre UNO will present Romulus Linney’s Holy Ghosts in the Robert E. Nims Theatre in the UNO Performing Arts Center on February 7-11 at 7:30 p.m. and February 12 at 2:30 p.m.
January 18, 2012
The University of New Orleans is a member of a consortium of universities selected to receive a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
January 09, 2012
The Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans, is conducting archaeological excavation at the museum’s future location at 933 Conti Street.
December 19, 2011
John Renne, director of the Merritt C. Becker Jr. University of New Orleans Transportation Institute, is a member of a diverse coalition of transportation advocates supporting the passage of a new City of New Orleans ordinance that changes the way city agencies design streets.
December 07, 2011
The Joseph Patrick Uddo Foundation has established a screenwriting scholarship at the University of New Orleans to honor the memory of a New Orleans native and his love of films and filmmaking.
November 30, 2011
University of New Orleans graduate student Barry Stephenson, a composer and bassist in the jazz studies program, has been named this year’s recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship.
November 29, 2011
A joint study conducted by researchers at the University of New Orleans and Loyola University New Orleans finds that the anticipated closure of the Avondale Shipyard will be devastating for laid-off workers and the economy of greater New Orleans.
November 18, 2011
The most comprehensive survey of residential and commercial property conditions of the Lower 9th Ward is now publically available on WhoData.org, a powerful community data internet mapping service supported by the University of New Orleans Department of Planning and Urban Studies.
November 01, 2011
Theatre UNO will present the New Play Celebration, a series of one-act and ten-minute plays, from November 3-13 in the Robert E. Nims Theatre at the University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center.
October 04, 2011
The University of New Orleans Center For Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology has released a unique risk literacy manual that combines disaster education and literacy-building skills.
September 30, 2011
A performance from University of New Orleans music professor Ed Petersen and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman will air on NPR’s Jazzset, broadcast locally on WWNO 89.9 FM on Saturday, October 1 at midnight.
September 30, 2011
University of New Orleans professor emeritus and jazz studies program founder Ellis Marsalis will open the fall 2011 Jazz at the Sandbar series on Wednesday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m.
September 26, 2011
A study released by a pair of University of New Orleans professors finds that the proposed closure of the Avondale Shipyard will depress housing values by more than 20 percent in the West Bank communities close to the shipyard.
September 23, 2011
The University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts will debut its new, state-of-the-art digital projector on Sunday, September 25 with a special high definition screening of “No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,” a documentary directed by James Chressanthis.
September 20, 2011
The University of New Orleans Master of Public Administration program will host the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration (SECOPA) at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans from September 21-24.
September 08, 2011
University of New Orleans doctoral student Kelly Owens has been awarded a dissertation research grant, worth up to $17,075, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
September 06, 2011
Theatre UNO and The NOLA Project are joining together to present the New Orleans premiere of Is He Dead?, and Theatre UNO’s 2011-2012 season
August 31, 2011
University of New Orleans student Trenton Thomas has been selected to speak at the opening banquet for the National Orientation Directors Association Conference.
August 08, 2011
University of New Orleans anthropology professor Jeffrey Ehrenreich was honored as a 2011 Crystal Feather Award recipient by the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame.
August 01, 2011
“Common Ground,” a group exhibition curated by Jim Richard, a professor in the fine arts department at the University of New Orleans, will be presented at The Arthur Roger Gallery.
July 29, 2011
University of New Orleans student Erika del Pilar Burton is the recipient of the Doctoral Diversity Fellowship offered by the State of Louisiana Board of Regents.
July 06, 2011
A pair of University of New Orleans students exhibited their work at the opening of an art exchange in Innsbruck, Austria on July 4.
July 05, 2011
Recent University of New Orleans graduate Reginald Varnado is the winner of Randy Jackson’s first “Next YouTube Star” contest.
June 30, 2011
English professor emeritus Kris Lackey and biological sciences instructor Lura Williamson are the recipients of the 2011 University of New Orleans Excellence in Teaching Awards.
June 15, 2011
Recent University of New Orleans graduate Reginald Varnado has been selected as one of the top five in Randy Jackson’s “Pick Your Favorite YouTube Music Star” contest.
June 08, 2011
Members of the University of New Orleans Jazz Ambassadors have been invited to participate in a cultural and academic exchange by Centro Colombo Americano from June 13-25 in Colombia. The UNO Jazz Ambassadors are a select group of jazz studies graduate students.
May 17, 2011
The conventional wisdom is that infants are hard on a marriage because parents’ sleeping habits are disrupted by babies. But a new study that appears in the journal Child Development finds that marital instability when a child is nine months old can affect child sleep problems at 18 months.
May 11, 2011
A group of University of New Orleans professors is teaming up with colleagues from other local universities for a collaborative research project on the closing of the Avondale Shipyard.
May 09, 2011
CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans will co-sponsor a major international conference on the topic of the Vienna Summit of 1961 from May 19-21 at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
May 06, 2011
University of New Orleans students Caroline Langlois, Cliff Thompson and Mignon Charvet participated in the 2011 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Festival in Washington, D.C. from April 19-23.
April 29, 2011
An essay by University of New Orleans student Rebekah Berger May earned an Honorable Mention award in the 2011 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest.
April 27, 2011
In what has become an annual tradition, a huge contingent of UNO students, faculty, staff and alumni will perform at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
April 26, 2011
University of New Orleans student Margaret Sullivan is this year’s winner of the prestigious James Domengeaux Scholarship. Sullivan, a double major in French and international studies, is the first UNO recipient of the scholarship since it was first given in 1998.
April 25, 2011
The University of New Orleans is included in The Huffington Post’s list of the “Top 25 Most Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs.”
April 12, 2011
Superintendent Ronal W. Serpas of the New Orleans Police Department is the 2011 recipient of the University of New Orleans College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award.
April 12, 2011
University of New Orleans master's of urban and regional planning student Evan Casper-Futterman is the winner of the American Planning Association’s Economic Development Division Graduate Scholarship.
March 30, 2011
The University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology will hold a one-day executive program in resilience and risk management exclusively for government and business leaders in southeast Louisiana.
March 30, 2011
University of New Orleans master’s in urban and regional planning student Max Williamson is the recipient of a 2011 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship.
March 25, 2011
The University of New Orleans celebrated more than $2.2 million in campus upgrades as part of its “Students First” initiative during a ceremony held at the University Center. The improvements were funded by federal hurricane recovery money.
March 24, 2011
Theatre UNO, in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival, will present a production of The Glass Menagerie at Le Petit Théâtre beginning on Friday, March 25.
March 21, 2011
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the University of New Orleans’ oldest and most rigorous interdisciplinary academic honor society, welcomed 49 new members into its ranks in a ceremony on the UNO campus.
March 21, 2011
Michelle Thompson, a University of New Orleans planning and urban studies professor, appeared with Mayor Mitch Landrieu at a March 19 event in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood in conjunction with the city’s second “Fight the Blight” volunteer day.
March 15, 2011
Marla Nelson, a University of New Orleans professor of planning and urban studies, will receive a 2011 Activist Scholar Award at the Urban Affairs Association’s 41st Annual Meeting.
February 18, 2011
John Renne, a University of New Orleans professor of planning and urban studies, will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Five Years Later: Improvements in Emergency Preparedness in New Orleans Since Hurricane Katrina.”
February 17, 2011
University of New Orleans fine arts professor Richard Johnson's new exhibit is lauded in a review from The Times-Picayune art critic Doug MacCash.
February 15, 2011
To mark “Darwin Day,” the University of New Orleans will hold a series of lectures on Saturday, March 26 at the Homer L. Hitt Alumni and Visitors Center on the UNO campus.
February 15, 2011
University of New Orleans political science professor Ed Chervenak will discuss redistricting and what it means to ordinary citizens on Thursday at Tammany Together's quarterly meeting.
February 11, 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.
February 04, 2011
Three members of the University of New Orleans music department faculty took top honors at the “Best of the Beat” awards presented by OffBeat magazine on January 28 at Generations Hall.
February 01, 2011
The University of New Orleans Department of Planning and Urban Studies (UNO-PLUS) has launched WhoData.org, a powerful community data internet mapping service that will give citizen groups an unprecedented platform to contribute and track information on the progress of New Orleans’ neighborhoods.
January 21, 2011
University of New Orleans professor John Renne published a guest editorial on the topic of disaster recovery in The Australian, the top-selling national newspaper in Australia.
January 18, 2011
New Orleans’ first family of jazz, including UNO professor emeritus Ellis Marsalis and UNO adjunct professors Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts at the annual Jazz Masters awards in New York City.
January 13, 2011
Theatre UNO will hold a remount performance of The Night of The Iguana on Sunday, February 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the Robert E. Nims Theatre, located in the UNO Performing Arts Center.
January 11, 2011
The University of New Orleans history department will hold the 13th George G. Windell Memorial Lecture in European History at the National World War II Museum on Thursday, January 27, 2011.
December 15, 2010
The University of New Orleans’ spring 2010 production of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana has accepted an invitation to perform at the 2011 Region VI Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Iguana is one of six productions selected to perform for the six-state region festival.