UNO s Environmental Sciences Institute Receives $568K Grant bizneworleans.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizneworleans.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Since its inception in 2001, the focus of the University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences (PIES) has been on addressing coastal and environmental issues. A three-year, $568,000 grant for the Louisiana Board of Regents will help PIES be better suited to tackle problems facing coastal communities in New Orleans and elsewhere by providing state of the art instrumentation and equipment.