Recent University of New Orleans doctoral graduate Anastasia Konefal has won a prestigious Science Policy Fellowship with the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Konefal received her Ph.D. in integrative biology from UNO in August. She worked in biology professor Erin Cox’s Coastal Benthic Lab, which studies animals and plants that live on the sea floor.  Read more

The Wind Hub at UNO and the University of New Orleans have announced the second cohort of the Wind Scholars Program in Engineering.  Read more

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Advanced Materials Research Institute at the University of New Orleans are working with scientists from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM on upcycling rechargeable batteries.  Read more

The University of New Orleans has selected Justin McKenzie as its new vice president for information technology and chief information officer.  Read more

The grant will train a total of 15 American students over three years and support their participation in an international field school.  Read more

UNO professor Tumulesh Solanky is the winner of the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.  Read more

University of New Orleans professor Maddie Foster-Martinez is the recipient of a two-year $345,000 grant from the RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana.  Read more

University of New Orleans earth and environmental sciences professor Martin O’Connell is fishing for clues in Plaquemines Parish to determine whether tilapia—considered an invasive fish species in the wild—has survived a targeted kill conducted almost 15 years ago.  Read more

University of New Orleans anthropology professor Ryan Gray and a team that includes UNO students will spend part of the summer near Berlin, Germany excavating what is believed to be a crash site of a U.S. bomber from World War II.  Read more