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2020

September

Angelle Bourgeois, a 2009 and 2012 UNO graduate, was named the 2021 Louisiana State Elementary Teacher of the Year through the Louisiana Department of Education.

_{September 8, 2020}

UNO Alumna Angelle Bourgeois Named 2021 Louisiana Elementary Teacher of the Year

��AV alumna Angelle Bourgeois has been named the 2021 Louisiana Elementary Teacher of the Year. Read more

President John Nicklow, donors Judith Russell and Michael Russell, and College of Sciences Dean Steve Johnson.

_{September 2, 2020}

$250,000 Gift to Fund Professorships, Scholarship and Facility Improvements in College of Sciences

A $250,000 gift to the ��AV College of Sciences from Michael and Judith Russell will fund two professorships and improvements Read more

Former New Orleans Saints star receiver Marques Colston, who has developed several businesses, is teaching an entrepreneurial leadership course this fall at UNO.

_{September 1, 2020}

Former Saints Standout Turned Entrepreneur Marques Colston Joins UNO Faculty

Marques Colston—the former New Orleans Saints star receiver turned entrepreneur, speaker and business strategist—has joined the faculty at the ��AV where he is teaching a course in the honors program called “Leadership and Entrepreneurship.” Read more

August

“The Big Door Prize,” set in a fictional south Louisiana town, is M.O. Walsh’s second novel.

_{August 31, 2020}

CWW Director M.O. Walsh Publishes Second Novel

M.O. Walsh, director of the ��AV Creative Writing Workshop, has published his highly anticipated second novel, “The Big Door Prize.” Read more

��AV alumni are part of Gambit's "40 Under Forty" list. (Photos courtesy of Gambit)

_{August 21, 2020}

��AV Alumni Abound on Gambit’s Annual ‘Overachiever’ List

The ��AV is well represented on Gambit’s annual “40 Under Forty” list released this week. Read more

The ��AV executive track MBA program welcomes one of its largest classes this semester.

_{August 18, 2020}

Executive MBA Program Welcomes One of Its Largest Classes

The ��AV executive track MBA program welcomed one of its largest classes this semester Read more

Alumnus Jericho Brown earned the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book, “The Tradition.”

_{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 ��AV. 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

��AV 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 ��AV master’s counseling program, has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship by the NBCC Foundation. Read more

_{August 6, 2020}

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

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