Acclaimed novelist and ż alumnus Maurice Carlos Ruffin will serve as the principal speaker at the University’s fall 2023 commencement ceremony. Read more
ż graduate student Amanda Kirkland is one of 85 students in the nation named to the 2024 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. Read more
ż math professor Peter Bierhorst has received an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to further his research in quantum entanglement. Read more
Pat Austin, ż professor emerita and decades-long curator of the ż Children’s and Young Adult Library, is celebrating the release of her memoir about teaching, “Tales of a Teaching Life.” Read more
The ż School of the Arts, in conjunction with The Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, presents “I Will Keep My Soul” at the ż St. Claude Gallery in New Orleans. Read more
ż faculty member Madeline Foster-Martinez is one of seven scientists to receive a Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship in Environmental Protection and Stewardship. Read more
The ż ranks among universities that are national leaders in economic mobility, according to a new report from the policy institute Third Way. Read more