The Creative Writing Workshop Hosted Visiting Poet Dana Gioia
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The Creative Writing Workshop recently hosted visiting poet Dana Gioia who read from his extensive body of work.
Gioia has published six full-length collections of verse, including "Daily Horoscope" (1986), The Gods of Winter" (1991), "Interrogations at Noon" (2001, winner of the American Book Award), "Pity the Beautiful" (2012), "99 Poems: New & Selected" (2016, winner of the Poets’ Prize), and his just published new collection, "Meet Me at the Lighthouse" (2023), a collection dedicated to Gioia’s parents and ancestors, whom Gioia describes as “the unkillable poor,” from his working-class family of immigrants backwards to his great-grandfather, “a Mexican vaquero…shot dead at a tavern in Wyoming during a dispute over a bar tab.”
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| US and Austrian Institutions Meet in New Orleans
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Center Austria co-hosted the second meeting of US-Austrian institutions in New Orleans from March 15-17.
Presenters from academia, educational institutions, the embassy and the private sector met to discuss funding opportunities, ideas for cooperation and new approaches to student/faculty recruitment. The meeting was sponsored by the Dietrich Botstiber Foundation for Austrian American Studies.
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| University of New Orleans Transportation Institute Awarded $13.5 million For Research
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Researchers at the University of New Orleans Transportation Institute have received a $12 million, four-year federal grant for transit-oriented research and education conducted through the Center for Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities (CETOC).
In addition, the University received a $1.5 million federal grant to continue its maritime and multimodal transportation research and education conducted through the Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC).
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Support UNO's Model UN Students Through Crowdfunding
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Your contributions will enable UNO students to participate in an exciting simulation of United Nations activity involving thousands of students to be held in New York City in March. There, our many debating and resolution-writing sessions will culminate in a final meeting in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations headquarters building itself.
Gifts will help fund airfare, lodging and conference costs to allow more students to attend this life-changing event.
GIVE HERE or text UNOMUN to 71777.
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Southern History Expert Spoke at UNO on Confederate Monuments and Racial Justice
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Southern history expert and author Karen Cox gave a lecture on March 28 at the University of New Orleans Earl K. Long Library. Her book, "No Common Ground," explores the history of how and why Confederate monuments were built in light of the recent efforts to remove them from the southern landscape.
The lecture and book signing was sponsored by The Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and Whitney Plantation Museum with Friends of the UNO Library and UNO's Justice Studies Ph.D. Program.
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New Orleans Trumpeter Emily Mikesell Explores Her Love for Indie Pop on Smiloh's Genre-Bending 'Kaleidoscape'
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Back in 2019, trumpeter Emily Mikesell '22 was offered a gig to play a three-hour slot with her own band at Siberia. A member of Trumpet Mafia, Mikesell had written her own music off and on for a few years and had been learning music-making software, so the Siberia gig gave her a challenge.
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| | Barger Honors AVC's Dr. Jill Zimmerman at "Women of the Year" Celebration
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger on Monday, March 13, honored Dr. Jill Zimmerman '98, Dean of Student Life and Services at Antelope Valley College, during LA County Commission for Women’s 38th Annual “Women of the Year” awards and scholarship celebration.
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Wheat Ridge Announces New Community Development Director
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Wheat Ridge announced Lauren Mikulak '10 is the new community development director. Mikulak has worked for the city since 2010, and since 2017 she has managed the planning division, overseeing all current and long-range planning efforts. She specializes in land use regulation, development review, plan implementation, project management, and process improvement. As the staff liaison to the Wheat Ridge Housing Authority, she oversaw the redevelopment of the historic Fruitdale School Lofts.
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| DC Area Alumni: Meet Us @ City Tap House Dupont...with UNO President Dr. John Nicklow
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WHEN: Tuesday, April 18
5:30 - 8 p.m.
WHERE: City Tap House, Dupont
1250 Connecticut Ave, NW | Washington, DC
Calling all UNO alumni in the Washington, DC area...We're coming to you in April, and we'd love to see you all!
Stop by after work for some light appetizers, drinks and good times with your fellow UNO alumni, and say hello to UNO President John Nicklow and Alumni Association Executive Director Rachel Weiss, too. You won't want to miss it.
There is no cost to attend, but we ask that you register to let us know how many to expect. We can't wait to see you all!
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Homer L. Hitt Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Marques Colston
7 p.m. in the Senator Ted Hickey Ballroom in the University Center
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NYC Alumni: Meet Us @ with UNO President Dr. John Nicklow
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WHEN: Thursday, April 20
5:30 - 8 p.m.
WHERE: Butter Restaurant, Midtown
70 W. 45th Street | New York, NY
Calling all UNO alumni in the New York City area...We're coming to you in April, and we'd love to see you all!
Stop by after work for some light appetizers, drinks and good times with your fellow UNO alumni, and say hello to UNO President John Nicklow and Alumni Association Executive Director Rachel Weiss, too. You won't want to miss it.
There is no cost to attend, but we ask that you register to let us know how many to expect. We can't wait to see you all!
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SAVE THE DATES: 2023 Homecoming Week, November 6-11!
Distinguished Alumni Gala, 50th and 25th Class Reunions,
Homecoming Game with Tailgate and much more! Information to come.
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