Actor Harry Shearer will deliver the commencement address to fall 2020 graduates during the University of New Orleans’ virtual ceremony on December  Read more

Sheba Turk, co-anchor of WWL-TV’s Eyewitness Morning News and recipient of UNO's 2020 Distinguished Young Alumna Award, will deliver the keynote address for University of New Orleans Marketing Week.  Read more

University of New Orleans philosophy professor Dan Shahar is the winner of the 2020 Holmes Rolston III Early Career Essay Prize in Environmental Philosophy.  Read more

Sabrina Farmer never planned or even dreamed of attending college, until happenstance brought her to the lakefront campus of the University of New Orleans.  Read more

A $250,000 gift from alumna and Google vice president Sabrina Farmer will fund a computer science scholarship and support for the College of Scienc  Read more

University of New Orleans President John Nicklow highlighted increased enrollment, gains in research productivity, and the University’s efforts to make the campus community more equitable and inclusive in a virtual version of his fall 2020 State of the University address.  Read more

The University of New Orleans Press has published “I Am New Orleans,” a poetic compendium of what it means to be and to miss New Orleans featuring the work of 36 contemporary poets.  Read more

For 20 years, New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Jarvis DeBerry offered the city its most honest look at itself: the good, the bad, the wonderful—and weird. Moreover, the city took note.  Read more

A $250,000 gift from alumni Tom and Connie Kitchen will create an undergraduate scholarship at the University of New Orleans.  Read more