During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, University of New Orleans professors Gregory Price and Eric van Holm of UNO’s Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute, wanted to quantify the effects of social distancing.
Their resulting research, “The Effect of Social Distancing On The Early Spread of the Novel Coronavirus,” indicated social distancing is effective in helping to slow infection rate.
That research has been accepted for publication in
Social Science Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal of the Southwestern Social Science Association. The journal publishes current research on a broad range of topics including political science, sociology, economics, history, social work, geography, international studies and women s studies.
University of New Orleans engineering students earned first-place at the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 student competition held virtually on April 10. The team’s win came in the poster contest for a senior design project they call MOSS, the Modular Organics Sustenance System.
The purpose of the MOSS system is to automate the lighting and watering schedules for indoor household plants.
The team, led by Michael Ceraso, included John McGraw, Anne Kroll and Miles Borcherdt. UNO electrical engineering professor Parviz Rastgoufard advised the team, who are students in his electrical and computer engineering senior design II class.
Illuminator The University of New Orleans hired a professor in 2017 who had previously been arrested for a sex crime. He ended being accused of sexual harassment less than a year later.
In the spring of 2018, a student at the University of New Orleans told administrators biology professor Shawn Vincent asked her for sex in exchange for an A in his class.
UNO administrators suspended Vincent immediately, and days later, when the student turned over to university officials text messages and an audio recording of Vincent, UNO President John Nicklow fired him within hours. (New Orleans Public Radio - WWNO is licensed to and operated by the University of New Orleans.)
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Like so many musicians these days, Nikki Gaddis, who goes by the name Veauxgue, started making music online at the age of 12. “ I would go online and just find websites where I could make fun beats. Then at the age of 13, I made simple beats on my musical keyboard and just wrote around what I made. It was an off and on thing for years and although I did have a studio mic around the time, I didn’t take it too seriously and didn’t do any recording. I wrote more songs throughout the years but it wasn’t until after my freshman year of college, age 19, when I recorded my first single titled ‘Thank You For Loving Me’.”