Loyola University New Orleans students started a new year with a newly renovated Danna Student Center, the heart of campus life, serving as a place where students eat, study and gather. The university completed a major renovation of the decades-old facility....

New Orleans native Dr. Shaniece B. Bickham was recently appointed the Director of the school of Communication and Design, bringing 20 years of experience in higher education and print media to Loyola University. Bickham has an extensive background...

Loyola’s professors present during Hurricane Katrina were direct witnesses of the adverse effects the hurricane had on the university. 20 years later, they are still able to recount the events, including the evacuation of the entire university, the...

Upon studying at Loyola, Von Gocan was able to delve deeper into his passion of creating hip hop music, as a result of his environment, making a path that is unique to him. He credits not only the culture of New Orleans to his progression in music but...

Although Loyola is uptown, there are a lot of students that commute from other areas of the city. One of these areas is New Orleans East, an underserved area of New Orleans. Community Health Center New Orleans East Louisiana was founded in the aftermath...

Twenty years ago, the United States failed New Orleans. Today, the people are still paying the price.  On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, plowing through the city. If you attend Loyola, you may be familiar with National...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Loyola University and citizens of New Orleans continue to evaluate their readiness for future major storms. Katrina caused widespread damage across New Orleans when levee failures caused severe...

As we reflect on the 20-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we would like to recognize universities that lent a helping hand to our students in times of crisis and disaster.  When Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, it washed away more than homes...

When we talk about disasters, it’s easy to get lost in numbers: how many homes were destroyed, how many billions in damages, how many lives were lost. But behind each statistic is a story, and behind every story is a family forever changed. These stories...

When you know New Orleans, you adore it. There is a haunting spirit over the city, a magic that determines nothing will ever change it. Not even Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst humanitarian disasters on American soil. Hurricane Katrina made landfall...

Race Against Time, revisits Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans nearly 20 years ago, with an unwavering focus on the racial injustices that transformed a tragedy into one of the most obvious instances of institutional unfairness in American...