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Mayor Timothy Adams to Receive 2020 UNO Homer Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award

Posted 3 weeks ago

Timothy Adams, a business executive and the mayor of Bowie, Maryland, will receive the 2020 University of New Orleans Homer L. Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award, the UNO Alumni Association announced. Additionally, WWL-TV news anchor Sheba Turk has been named the 2020 Homer Hitt Young Alumna of the Year. Both will be celebrated on Nov. 12, 2020, as part of the University’s homecoming festivities.

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2020

August

_{August 11, 2020}

Pulitzer Prize Poet and alumnus Jericho Brown: ‘What I’m doing now still bears upon what I learned at UNO’

Jericho Brown recalled his days of leaving his downtown New Orleans office to navigate the I-10 East traffic toward the University of New Orleans. Brown spent much of his time navigating the political landscape as a speechwriter for then-Mayor Marc Morial before heading to UNO’s Creative Writing Workshop. Read more

University of New Orleans counseling student Ash Bayer awarded $10,000 fellowship.

_{August 10, 2020}

UNO Counseling Student Ash Bayer Awarded $10,000 Fellowship

Ash M. Bayer, a student in the University of New Orleans master’s counseling program, has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship by the NBCC Foundation. Read more

University of New Orleans chemistry professor Phoebe Zito

_{August 6, 2020}

UNO Professor Phoebe Zito Awarded Early-Career Research Fellowship by National Academies' Gulf Research Program

University of New Orleans chemistry professor Phoebe Zito has been awarded a 2020 Early-Career Research Fellowship by the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program. Read more

Retired University of New Orleans dean and former acting chancellor Joe King

_{August 5, 2020}

In Memoriam: Joe King, former UNO dean, interim chancellor

Joe King, who retired from the University of New Orleans following a 20-year career that included stints as a biology professor and dean Read more

July

Human performance and health promotion professor Marc Bonis’ recent review of several studies indicates regular exercise is beneficial in fighting COVID-19.

_{July 30, 2020}

Physical Activity Could Reduce Severity of COVID-19 Research Suggests

Doctors have long touted the health benefits of physical exercise. Read more

Four attendees at the convention of formerly enslaved people held in 1916 in Washington, D.C. (L-R) Lewis Martin, Martha Banks, Amy Ware, and Reverend S.P. Drew, who was born free. (Library of Congress)

_{July 28, 2020}

Freedom on the Move Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Help Create ‘Freedom’s Loom,’ An Expanded Database

Freedom on the Move, an online database that seeks to document the lives of fugitives from North American slavery using newspaper ads placed by ens Read more

University of New Orleans transportation studies professor Guang Tian is researching ways to reduce the number of railroad crossings in Louisiana. The state has one of the highest number of grade crossing collisions in the nation.(Getty Image)

_{July 24, 2020}

How Can Louisiana Reduce Its Rail Crossings? UNO Transportation Studies Professor Guang Tian’s Research Seeks That Answer

There are more than 3,000 at-grade crossings of public and private roads with railroads in Louisiana, which researchers say contribute to the state Read more

_{July 23, 2020}

Mayor Timothy Adams to Receive 2020 UNO Homer Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award

Timothy Adams, a business executive and the mayor of Bowie, Maryland, will receive the 2020 University of New Orleans Homer L. Read more

Healthcare Management professor Randy Kearns is leading a consortium of medical personnel and first responders to create a statewide model for improving emergency care for children. (Getty Image)

_{July 22, 2020}

UNO Professor Randy Kearns Works To Improve Pediatric Emergency Care

Louisiana had the highest child fatality rate in the United States from 2014 to 2016, the three most recent years that complete f Read more

UNO graduate students are tutoring online as part of their education course on school community relations.

_{July 17, 2020}

UNO Students Tutor Virtually As Part of Summer Teaching Course

After reading that some elementary school students were falling behind academically when COVID-19 required the physical closure of their school cam Read more

Students, faculty and administrators pose for a picture in 1976 before boarding the airplane for that inaugural summer session in Innsbruck, Austria.

_{July 16, 2020}

UNO-Innsbruck International Summer School Turns 45

EDITOR’S NOTE: The University of New Orleans canceled all 2020 summer study abroad programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Dr. Brian Boulmay is the director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program at LSU Health Sciences Center and an associate professor in the hematology and oncology section.

_{July 8, 2020}

Dr. Brian Boulmay, UNO Alumni and Oncologist: Treating Cancer Patients During a Pandemic

Dr. Brian Boulmay returned to his hometown of New Orleans in 2008 to create a hematology/oncology fellowship program Read more

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Mayor Timothy Adams to Receive 2020 UNO Homer Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award

Posted 3 weeks ago

NEWS

2020

August

Pulitzer Prize Poet and alumnus Jericho Brown: ‘What I’m doing now still bears upon what I learned at UNO’

UNO Counseling Student Ash Bayer Awarded $10,000 Fellowship

UNO Professor Phoebe Zito Awarded Early-Career Research Fellowship by National Academies' Gulf Research Program

In Memoriam: Joe King, former UNO dean, interim chancellor

July

Physical Activity Could Reduce Severity of COVID-19 Research Suggests

Freedom on the Move Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Help Create ‘Freedom’s Loom,’ An Expanded Database

How Can Louisiana Reduce Its Rail Crossings? UNO Transportation Studies Professor Guang Tian’s Research Seeks That Answer

Mayor Timothy Adams to Receive 2020 UNO Homer Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award

UNO Professor Randy Kearns Works To Improve Pediatric Emergency Care

UNO Students Tutor Virtually As Part of Summer Teaching Course

UNO-Innsbruck International Summer School Turns 45

Dr. Brian Boulmay, UNO Alumni and Oncologist: Treating Cancer Patients During a Pandemic

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