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Film student Sage Blackledge (inset picture) won first place for her short film project “Mother’s Always Right,” a psychological thriller that explores intergenerational trauma.

_{November 19, 2021}

InnovateUNO Symposium Showcases Students Scholarly Research and Creative Work

The University of New Orleans' Office of Research wrapped up the 10th annual InnovateUNO with an awards ceremony on Thursday that recognized the wi Read more

Jenny Branch, left, and her sister Edna Branch, look at pictures included in the Orleans Parish School Board Collection housed at the University of New Orleans’ Earl K. Long Library during a reception held in 2019.

_{November 3, 2021}

UNO Awarded $500K Humanities Grant To Create More Digital Archives

The University of New Orleans is the recipient of a nearly $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Read more

UNO Bollinger School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering is collaborating with a New Orleans design firm, Scale Innovations, on the creation of an electric boat.

_{October 21, 2021}

UNO Bollinger School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Collaborates with Local Design Firm Scale Innovations to Design and Engineer Electric Boat

Nearly 80 years after Andrew Higgins put New Orleans on the map with his innovative Higgins boats that helped turn the tide in World War II, a new Read more

UNO researchers (from left) Bradley Sciacca, professor Damon Smith and Cory Darling compare 3D printed spinal columns. Such models can be used in training doctors and other medical staff in X-ray imaging and delicate surgical procedures.

_{October 8, 2021}

No Bones About It: UNO and Ochsner Researchers Use 3D Printing to Advance Medical Training

University of New Orleans researchers, in collaboration with the Ochsner Medical 3D Lab, have developed new materials that effectively mimic the X-ray transparencies of bone and human tissue. Read more

_{September 23, 2021}

Grant to Create Urban Bird Habitat on UNO Campus and Support Environmental Education

The University of New Orleans has received a $34,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to create an urban bird habitat on campus and support educational programming connected to environmental conservation. Read more

UNO researchers and partners will devise a plan on how to restore resilient seagrass beds in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with a particular focus on the role of genetic variation (photo courtesy of: Anastasia Konefal.

_{September 17, 2021}

UNO-Led Research Team Lands $121,000 Grant to Help Restore Resilient Seagrass Beds in Northern Gulf of Mexico

A research team led by University of New Orleans biologist T. Read more

University of New Orleans professor Fallon Samuels Aidoo is an urban planning scholar and practitioner with an expertise in historic preservation.

_{July 30, 2021}

Historic Preservation Professor Fallon Samuels Aidoo Is Co-Recipient of $120K National Trust Grant

Fallon Samuels Aidoo, a professor of historic preservation in the University of New Orleans’ department of Read more

Students test out their robotic eels at the University of New Orleans recreation center’s pool. The robots were created as part of a weeklong School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering STEM camp funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

_{July 16, 2021}

UNO Robotic Eel Camp Introduces Middle School Students to Engineering

Middle school students from the metro New Orleans area spent a week delving into engineering topics and creating projects to demonstrate those concepts as part of the University of New Orleans PrivatEEL STEM camp. Read more

_{July 9, 2021}

New Orleans Business Alliance Receives $1.3M Grant to Develop Biotech Labs at The Beach at UNO

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Read more