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Frank and Paulette Stewart have pledged $1 million to create an endowed scholarship fund at the University of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A graduate of the University of New Orleans has donated $5 million to the university's College of Engineering in what university officials said was university's largest-ever gift to an academic college.

Dr. Bobby and Lori Savoie have donated $5 million to the University of New Orleans College of Engineering. It is the largest gift to an academic college in the history of the University.

In a measured poetic cadence, University of New Orleans alumnus and Pulitzer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown urged the fall graduating class of 2021 to “be radical”

After a virtual version last year, the 2021 University of New Orleans Distinguished Alumni Gala returned to the striking surroundings of the National WWII Museum on Thursday to celebrate alumni achievement and the University’s importance to the city and the region. “I hope that tonight’s event will continue to build shared pride and reinforce the value of our beloved university,” said UNO President John Nicklow. “As I say to nearly every group I speak to, New Orleans doesn’t work without the University of New Orleans.”