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NEWS

2024

January

A �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Press publication is the 2024 book for a New Orleans-wide reading and literacy campaign. A kick-off event will be held at �Ͼ�Ʒ��.

_{January 25, 2024}

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� Press Book Selected As 2024 New Orleans Citywide Read

A �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Press publication is the 2024 book for a New Orleans-wide reading and literacy campaign. A kick-off event will be held at �Ͼ�Ʒ��. Read more

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� anthropology professor Ryan Gray and a team excavates a site inside St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, the oldest active cathedral in the U.S.

_{January 22, 2024}

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� Professor Ryan Gray Excavates In St. Louis Cathedral: ‘It really is a one-of-a-kind project’

While a brass band played to the delight of tourists who clapped and swayed to the spirited beats that filled the air in Jackson Square one breezy January afternoon, a short distance away, �Ͼ�Ʒ�� students stood sifting—literally—through the soils of time at St. Louis Cathedral. Read more

Christopher Hicks is a graduate student in �Ͼ�Ʒ��’s counseling program.

_{January 17, 2024}

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� Graduate Student Christopher Hicks Awarded NBCC Fellowship

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� graduate student Christopher Hicks has been selected for the 2024 National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program. Read more

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� President Kathy Johnson is the eighth president and the first woman to helm �Ͼ�Ʒ�� in its 65-year history.

_{January 11, 2024}

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� President Kathy Johnson: Collaborative, Servant Leader

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� President Kathy Johnson knows the impact a faculty member can have in a student’s life. Read more

Ellen Lee, who earned a bachelor’s and an MBA from the �Ͼ�Ʒ��, has established a scholarship to help returning students complete their degree.

_{January 3, 2024}

Alumna Ellen Lee Establishes New Opportunity Scholarship At �Ͼ�Ʒ��

Fresh out of high school and living away from home for the first time, �Ͼ�Ʒ�� alumna Ellen Lee acknowledges that her studies too Read more

2023

December

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� librarian Connie Phelps holds a brick from William Frantz Elementary School that is among the recent artifacts donated as part of the Orleans Parish School Board Collection housed at the �Ͼ�Ʒ��’ Earl K. Long Library.

_{December 14, 2023}

Earl K. Long Library Special Collection of Orleans Parish School Board Memorabilia Is Expanding

The Earl K. Long Library’s special collection containing material that documents more than 150 years of Orleans Parish School Board history is expanding. Read more

The newly renovated lounge in the Engineering Building at �Ͼ�Ʒ�� offers students a comfortable study place.

_{December 12, 2023}

Engineering Study Lounge Renovated with $120K Gift

The study lounge in the Engineering Building at the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� has been renovated courtesy of a $120,000 gift from �Ͼ�Ʒ�� alumnus Tony Cibilich. Read more

Acclaimed novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, who earned two degrees from the �Ͼ�Ʒ��, gave the commencement address Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.

_{December 11, 2023}

Novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin To �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Grads: ‘I’m living my dream because I went to this school’

Acclaimed novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, who earned two degrees from the �Ͼ�Ʒ��, gave the commencement address Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. Read more

Students at Village de L’Est Elementary School work with Dianne Barth of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on solutions to issues they identified while surveying their school yard.

_{December 6, 2023}

Grant Seeks To Create Environmental ‘Place-based’ Program For Elementary Students

Researchers at the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� are using a National Academy of Sciences grant to create an environmental place-based education program for elementary students. Read more