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Actor, Writer and Producer Deric Augustine to Serve as UNO's Fall 2025 Commencement Speaker

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University of New Orleans alumnus Deric Augustine (’12) will serve as the principal speaker at the University’s Fall 2025 Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Lakefront Arena.

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September

_{September 19, 2022}

University of New Orleans Jazz at the Sandbar Returns October 5

The fall 2022 Jazz at the Sandbar concert series kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at the University of New Orleans. Read more

UNO’s campus is adjacent to Lake Pontchartrain, an estuary that leads into the Gulf of Mexico and serves as a nursery for numerous species of animals.

_{September 14, 2022}

UNO Awarded Healthy Communities Grant for Storm Drain Project

The University of New Orleans has been selected as a recipient of the Healthy Communities Grant by Keep Louisiana Beautiful. Read more

UNO computer science student Lisa Gilmore-Montero, a member of UNO’s International Game Developer's Association, demonstrates the use of virtual reality (VR) equipment.

_{September 14, 2022}

UNO Awarded $800K Grant For Virtual Tech Lab and Program

The University of New Orleans has received an $800,000 grant to help fill what industry leaders say is a critical employee shortage and need for additional infrastructure to support extended reality (XR) business development and education. Read more

New Orleans food critic Tom Fitzmorris is a 1974 graduate of the University of New Orleans.

_{September 13, 2022}

Alumnus Tom Fitzmorris’ 50-year Career Writing and Talking About Food Started at UNO

The cover of Tom Fitzmorris’ 2010 book Hungry Town calls it a culinary history of New Orleans, “the city where food is almost everything.” Read more

The University of New Orleans is the top ranked university in Louisiana for least debt and most ethnic diversity, according to U.S. News & World Report.

_{September 12, 2022}

UNO is Tops in the State in Least Debt and Most Ethnic Diversity, According to U.S. News & World Report

The University of New Orleans is the top ranked university in Louisiana for least debt and most ethnic diversity, according to the 2022-23 U.S. Read more

“Fully Committed” opens Sept. 23 at the University of New Orleans’ Performing Arts Center.

_{September 8, 2022}

Theatre UNO Opens Season with Becky Mode’s ‘Fully Committed’

Theatre UNO in the School of the Arts will open the 2022-23 season on Sept. 23 with Becky Mode’s comedy “Fully Committed.” Read more

_{September 7, 2022}

Theatre UNO Opens Season with Becky Mode’s ‘Fully Committed’

Theatre UNO in the School of the Arts will open the 2022-23 season on Sept. 23 with Becky Mode’s comedy “Fully Committed.” Read more

Jeremiah Ibarra’s “Put on Airs,’’ 2021 Assemblage is part of an exhibit that opens Saturday, Sept. 10, at UNO’s St. Claude Gallery.

_{September 6, 2022}

St. Claude Gallery Exhibits: ‘A Ticker and a Toddler Bite’ by Jeremiah Ibarra

The UNO St. Claude Gallery in New Orleans presents “A Ticker and a Toddler Bite,” an exhibition by UNO instructor Jeremiah Ibarra that opens Saturday, Sept. 10. Read more

August

University of New Orleans President John Nicklow (left) and finance professor Tarun Mukherjee (right) cut the ribbon during a ceremony Wednesday for the opening of the Kali and Sushila Mukherjee Trading Lab that honors his parents.

_{August 31, 2022}

The Kali and Sushila Mukherjee Trading Lab Opens at UNO

University of New Orleans officials celebrated the opening of the Kali and Sushila Mukherjee Trading Lab on Wednesday with a ribbon cutting and rec Read more