Middle school students spent June 3-6 learning about robot construction, wiring, and programming as part of the University of New Orleans Robotic Eel Camp.
The University of New Orleans awarded more than $270, 000 in research grants and awards to faculty members and undergraduate students Wednesday during its annual Achievements in Research, Creativity and Scholarship awards ceremony.
Nearly 80 years after Andrew Higgins put New Orleans on the map with his innovative Higgins boats that helped turn the tide in World War II, a new initiative has the potential to once again transform the New Orleans shipbuilding industry. The University of New Orleans Boysie Bollinger School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and Scale Innovations, a New Orleans industrial design firm, are rethinking work vessels by designing and engineering an electric boat.