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UNO Garden Club Awarded Youth Climate Action Grant

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The University of New Orleans Garden Club has been awarded a grant through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund for its student-led project, “Lowering Food Waste Through Gardening.” The initiative was selected as part of a citywide effort to support youth-designed climate action projects, in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell presents UNO students Jacob Lefort and Emma Bourgeois with grant certificates

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2021

April

_{April 28, 2021}

The University of New Orleans Accepting Nominations for UNO25, Celebrating Alumni Owned or Led Businesses

The University of New Orleans is accepting applications and nominations for UNO25, an initiative designed to identify, recognize and celebrate 25 h Read more

Two University of New Orleans professors say their study of COVID-19 data indicates social distancing is effective in helping to slow infection rate.

_{April 28, 2021}

UNO Professors’ Research on Social Distancing and COVID-19 Accepted for Publication

During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, University of New Orleans professors Gregory Price and Eric van Holm of UNO’s Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute, wanted to quantify the effects of social distancing. Read more

UNO students from left, John McGraw, Michael Ceraso (team leader), Anne Kroll and Miles Borcherdt were awarded first place in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 competition.

_{April 26, 2021}

UNO Engineering Students Earn First Place in Regional Competition

University of New Orleans engineering students earned first-place at the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 student competition. Read more

Tarun Mukherjee, whose primary expertise is in corporate finance, has established the Kali C. and Sushila B. Mukherjee Student-Managed Fund to give UNO finance majors real-world experience in portfolio management.

_{April 23, 2021}

Finance Professor Tarun Mukherjee Establishes Student-Managed Fund to Honor Parents, Offer Experiential Course

As a child growing up in a small town in India, University of New Orleans finance professor Tarun Mukherjee recalled his mother’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Read more

_{April 22, 2021}

Trailblazing Professor and Civil Rights Leader Raphael Cassimere Jr. to Serve as Principal Speaker at UNO’s Spring Commencement

Raphael Cassimere Jr., a trailblazing academic and civil rights leader, will serve as the principal speaker at the University of New Orleans’ sprin Read more

The University of New Orleans amphitheatre is being used for the live performance of the play “Eurydice.”

_{April 21, 2021}

UNO Amphitheatre Transformed for “Eurydice” Production

After a season of virtual performances, the University of New Orleans theatre department has taken its spring show to the great outdoors—literally. Read more

The University of New Orleans Press and Earl K. Long Library will present a lecture on April 29 called “What Langston Did,=”

_{April 20, 2021}

UNO Press Lecture Series Features Author Kalamu ya Salaam

The University of New Orleans Press and Earl K. Long Library will present a lecture on April 29 called “What Langston Did” Read more

UNO students (from left) Jinjiao Wang, Olivia Pelias and Yasameen Mohsin are the 2020-2021 recipients of the Julie A. Ard Undergraduate Award.

_{April 19, 2021}

Three Business Students Earn Scholarship Awards

Three University of New Orleans College of Business Administration students are among eight recipients of the 2020-2021 Julie A. Ard Undergraduate Award Read more

AMRI Awarded NSF Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research Program

_{April 15, 2021}

AMRI Awarded $404K NSF Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Researchers in the University of New Orleans Advanced Materials Research Institute (AMRI) have been awarded a three-year, $404,828 grant from the National Science Foundation to re-establish a summer research program aimed at undergraduate students. Read more

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