In a Student Government election, experience inside the University political system can be an asset or a hindrance to political aspirations. While some tickets flaunt their status as outsiders, others...

The Staff and Faculty Senate are hosting a forum with Chancellor Mike Martin today from 3 to 4:30 p.m. to discuss budget cuts."The Budgetary Futures of the University," will allow students, faculty and...

The Staff Senate will hold its March meeting today at 10:30 a.m. in225 Peabody Hall.The Senate is expected to discuss the University's budget situation aswell as Clovers and Quarters, the staff's annual...

The University College of Art and Design and the University Museum of Art will work in conjunction with the Classical Institute of the South and the Historic New Orleans Collection among other organizations...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will inject about $1 trillion into the economy in a bold effort to help the battered housing market and lift the country out of recession.At...

A group of females and a male huddled around a conference table to listen as Challen Nicklen, visiting assistant professor of women's and gender studies and political science, lectured on "The Shifting...

PLAQUEMINE (AP) — Tony, the tiger on display at a Grosse Tete truck stop, is getting a cage makeover. The Iberville Parish Council voted late Tuesday to require a larger pool for the 550-pound, Siberian-Bengal...

Student Government President Colorado Robertson met with Commissioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen on Tuesday to discuss the unfinished performance-based funding formula, tuition increases and the...

Jeff Zehnder, CEO of Zehnder Communications, has been named chair of the E.J. Ourso College of Business Dean's Advisory Council Marketing and Public Relations Committee, according to a University news...

ATLANTA (AP) — More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. There...

Sen. Mary Landrieu has been invited to speak at the 2009 graduation commencement this May.  Chancellor Michael Martin said Landrieu is the University's top candidate to speak to the graduates.  "...She...

The College of Arts and Sciences will face two losses in the upcoming academic year: the loss of its dean of five and a half years and the loss of the math department.The College of Basic Sciences will...