UNO College of Liberal Arts, Education and Human Development

Arrivederci, compagnos! Buono fortuna!👍🇮🇹

--"Prof. D. Ryan Gray will lead a group of students and archaeologists from UNO (to be renamed LSU New Orleans in July) to investigate a location believed to be associated with a World War II–era aircraft crash and the loss of an American pilot in central Italy."

UNO Archaeologists to Lead WWII Recovery Mission in Italy University of New Orleans Archaeological Research and Curation (UNO ARC) has announced the launch of its latest partner project with the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), intended to help fulfill the DPAA’s mission of making the fullest possible accounting of missing-in-action American ...

Congratulations to Dr. Lisbeth Philip and her 9th cohort of the UNOCPTI program in Translation and Interpreting! We wish them the very best on their future endeavors.

Thanks again to everyone who made this possible: Yanira Gutierrez-Figueroa, Nola July, Annie Johnston and our Language and Literature colleagues who supported Dr. Philip throughout this process: Justin Maxwell, Juliana Starr, Elaine Brooks...

Thank You, all, and congratulations to the graduates!😍😎

UNO People, Share Your Stories!

As the University of New Orleans undergoes a major institutional transition, this project is collecting the stories, memories, and lived experiences that have shaped the university across generations.
This student-led project is collecting memories, archival documents, and oral histories during a time when the University of New Orleans undergoes significant institutional change.

By bringing community perspectives into conversation with archival materials and public narratives, the project invites reflection on how histories are constructed, how meaning changes when memory is shared, and how different voices help shape collective understanding of who the university has been and who it is becoming.

The UNO Community Memory Project A student-led public history project documenting the memories community members hold of the University of New Orleans as it transitions into LSU New Orleans.

We're/They're Hiring!😍😎

Congratulations/Ciao, Dr. Gray!😍😎

UNO Professor Helps Identify Roman Tombstone Returned to Italy A University of New Orleans archaeologist played a key role in identifying a 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone discovered in a New Orleans backyard that has now been returned to Italy, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Ryan Gray, a professor at the University of New Orleans, traced the a...

Congratulations to All of Our Spring 2026 COLAED Graduates!😍👩‍🎓

Congratulations to all who earlier this week exhibited their work/play in the University of New Orleans’ Advanced Game Development Final Showcase!

The showcase is a celebratory exhibition of work developed by interdisciplinary teams comprised of UNO Computer Science and Fine Arts students. Special thanks to Professors Ben Samuels (CompSci) and Dan Rule (Fine Arts) for continuing this fine Privateer tradition--and a supreme shout out to all of our COLAED fine artists who are making the future of entertainment every day here at the lakefront!😍😎👏

Congratulations, Dr. Landry!😍👏

Dr. Marc Landry, Associate Professor in the History Department and Director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies, has been awarded the prestigious George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in the field of environmental history for 2026. The prize, named after the early American conservationist and trailblazer for the global environmental movement, recognizes outstanding scholarship in the field.

Landry’s book, Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age, was published by Stanford University Press. The award honors it as the best book in environmental history in 2025.
The George Perkins Marsh Prize is presented annually at the meeting of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), a pioneer organization in the field at its inception in 1977. Landry received the award at this year’s conference in Kansas City on March 27.

According to the ASEH the prize "recognizes works that offer innovative, deeply researched perspectives on environmental history, often bridging ecological analysis with social, economic, and political contexts."

The prize committee found Mountain Battery advanced “a new take on the global history of electrification.” Committee members further concluded the book was a “highly original analysis that uses a geophysical prism—the "alpine damscape"—to rethink both European history and energy history. Although the histories are saturated in coal through the centrality of the Industrial Revolution, Landry reveals how hydropower converted from Alpine waterways, the titular mountain battery, powered multiple nation-building and war-making projects.”

With this award, Landry’s research into the history of the Alps as an energy landscape joins a broader international conversation about the origins and impacts of the emergence of high-energy societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This marks Landry’s second major recognition for the book. In the fall of 2025, he also received the Baker-Burton Award for the best first book in European history by a scholar of a Southern college or university.

Congratulations to Vidyaman Thapa and his 1st place poster @ the 38th Annual Louisiana Remote Sensing and GIS Workshop!

Vidyaman's research, "Urbanization Gradients Structure Mammal Species Richness in a Gulf Coast City, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA," won first place in an international field, and was based in part on his work here @ UNO in Louis Temento's Advanced Techniques of GIS (Planning and Urban Studies) course/s.

Well done, Privateers!😍😎

Skilled | Unskilled | Deskilled
Anthony and Francis Almendárez
curated by Anna Mecugni

Exhibition Dates: April 12 – May 3, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12–5 PM
Location: UNO Gallery, 2429 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans

Bringing together video, photography, text, music, and sound in a compelling cross-disciplinary experience. This two-person exhibition features emerging artists Anthony and Francis Almendárez, whose work is showcased at prestigious venues across the U.S. and internationally.

Exploring labor as a complex and contested field shaped by migration, social hierarchies, and cultural systems of value, the exhibition offers thought-provoking perspectives that resonate across disciplines. The project is supported by Studio Art seniors and Tolmas Scholars Ben Collongues and Justin Laine.

The exhibition engages students not only in the School of the Arts, but also those studying political science, history, and social justice.