Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series. Landrieu’s 2017 speech, delivered in conjunction with the removal of the last of the four monuments, continues to earn praise for its honesty in confronting the truth about the past in order to chart a new path forward. In his 2018 New York Times bestselling book that followed, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confront...
Facilities Planning and Operations
Custodial staff toured a local Materials Recovery Facility to see how recyclables are processed. The outing took the group to different areas within the plant that included the receiving area, the tipping floor and sorting machines. The group observed various sizes of sorting discs for cardboard, paper and other materials, the magnet and eddy current for aluminum and steel products, the optical plastic sorter, the glass pulverizing machine and the final baled product for manufacture use. The tour was coordinated by University Facilities Management’s Custodial Services and the Office of S...
¹ú²úÂ×Àí's Esports team won the Hearthstone finals at the Harrisburg University Esports (HUE) Invitational held in mid-September. The Esports team was among 64 collegiate teams invited to the competition. ¹ú²úÂ×Àí participated in both the Hearthstone and the League of Legends competition. The team took the Hearthstone champion title, winning against 10 other universities. Esports is a competitive online gaming sport that has recently emerged into the college sports sphere. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a digital card game under the Warcraft series of digital games. ...
Professor Jacqueline Marino is a 2019 recipient of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). Dating back more than 50 years and sponsored by the ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Alumni Association, the DTA is presented annually to three full-time faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. The Alumni Association surprised Professor Marino with the news during her Feature Writing class on Oct. 15, 2019. "I am so moved," Professor Marino said as she was presented with balloons and an in-class c...
Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received more than $2.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the causes of Alzheimer’s and identify models for better pharmacological treatments. A new two-year, $224,500 project, titled “Characterization of transcr...
