Research
Mechanical Engineering Professor and Ph.D. Students Receive ASME "Best Paper” Award
The winning article, “An Investigation of Tensile, Fatigue, and Fracture Behavior of 3D-Printed Polymers,” was written by Rahman, Chowdhury Sadid Alam,...Read More
UNO Sustainability Pilot Project Celebrated at Citywide Climate Event
UNO project lead Carol Tanya Lunn and members of the student-run Garden Club were among those honored for their role in piloting a composting and...Read More
UNO Counselor Education Program Earns Statewide Recognition
The Counselor Education program was recognized with numerous awards across student, alumni, and faculty categories.
More than 1,000 counselors gathered in...Read More
UNO Bioinformatics Lab Wins Global CAID Competitions Twice in a Row
In the December 2024 CAID-3 competition, the lab’s AI tools captured all top three positions worldwide in the NOX dataset category, the most competitive...Read More
UNO History Professor Marc Landry Wins Baker-Burton Award for His Book "Mountain Battery"
"Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age" is published by Stanford University Press.
University of New Orleans history professor...Read More
University of New Orleans is All the Buzz at NOLA Bug Fest 2025
UNO was represented by members from many organizations including Keep UNO Beautiful; the UNO Garden Club; UNO Federal Credit Union; Birds of UNO; the Society...Read More
UNO Survey Research Center Releases Findings on 2025 New Orleans Mayoral Election
The combined landline and cell phone sample was weighted to reflect the gender, age, race, and council district parameters of the Orleans Parish voter file...Read More
UNO Awarded $105,804 Grant to Develop Advanced Cybersecurity Certificate Program
UNO will design two pilot courses: web security and network penetration testing. The courses will be offered in a one-week, 40-hour format.
The University of...Read More
UNO Awarded Nearly $2 Million NSF Grant to Support Low-Income STEM Students
This initiative builds on UNO’s successful implementation of a previous NSF Scholarships in STEM project, which achieved a 73 percent graduation rate among...Read More
UNO Researchers Use Extended Reality to Assist Infrastructure Inspections
The research will initially focus on AR tools, enabling inspectors to overlay real-time data, such as crack locations and strain patterns, onto physical...Read More
UNO Faculty Researcher Receives National Award for Equitable Court Management Tool
Licciardi was honored with the IJIS Court Integration Excellence Award, which recognizes innovative uses of technology to improve the justice system. The award...Read More
UNO Awarded Grant to Launch Food Waste Reduction Pilot Project
Waste will be transported to the UNO campus garden, where it will be processed into compost by members of the UNO Garden Club. The compost will then be used in...Read More
UNO Professor Awarded Grant for Seagrass Resilience Study Through Statewide Restoration Initiative
Traci Erin Cox will lead a project titled "Gene Expression and Thermal Resilience of Halodule wrightii Across Florida" to compare how northern and southern...Read More
UNO Undergraduate Students Present Original Research at State Capitol
UNO students Jody Billiot and Walker J. Reisman joined participants in the Capitol rotunda, where they displayed their posters and answered questions from...Read More
UNO Hospitality Research Center Awarded Grant to Study Economic Impact of 2025 Mardi Gras Season
The research aims to provide a comprehensive economic analysis of Mardi Gras celebrations in several of the state’s metropolitan statistical areas.
The...Read More
UNO’s Debra Karhson Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Debra Karhson is one of only 12 early-career researchers worldwide selected for the program’s tenth cohort, which supports rising academic leaders tackling...Read More
University of New Orleans Receives New Carnegie Classifications For Institution Type, Student Access and Earnings
UNO has been classified as a Mixed Undergraduate/Graduate-Doctorate Medium institution with Higher Access, Medium Earnings.
In addition to being recognized as...Read More
UNO Students Participate in 14th Annual University of Louisiana System Academic Summit
The Academic Summit showcases academic excellence through examples of undergraduate experiential learning at UL System universities.
Thirteen University of New...Read More
History Professor’s New Book Examines How Europe Transformed the Alps to Generate Electricity
Marc Landry is an associate professor of history, Marshall Plan Endowed Professor in Austrian Studies, and director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for...Read More
Computer Science Graduate Student Earns Prestigious Department of Defense Scholarship
Johny Lopez has been awarded the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, a prestigious award that...Read More