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Graduate Dean’s II
Any student accepted to a master’s degree program with a 3.2+
undergraduate or 3.7+ (U.S. resident) or 3.6+ (international student)
graduate GPA is eligible for this award. This scholarship provides
either full in-state tuition for Louisiana residents or $5,000 toward
out-of-state tuition for the academic year (fall and spring).
Full Graduate Dean’s Scholarship
Any student accepted to a master’s degree program with a 3.3+
undergraduate or 3.7+ graduate GPA is eligible for this award. This
scholarship provides a waiver of tuition and the nonresident fee for
the academic year (fall and spring).
Master’s and Doctoral Level Awards
Marcus B. Christian Graduate Scholarship
African-American and other U.S. minority students accepted to
doctoral or master’s degree programs with a 3.0+ undergraduate GPA
or 3.25+ master’s GPA are eligible for this award. Strong preference is
given to Louisiana residents and to graduates of Southern University
in New Orleans and other historically black institutions. This scholarship
provides a waiver of tuition and the nonresident fee for the
academic year (fall and spring).
Doctoral Level Awards
Graduate Dean’s III
Only international students who have been accepted to a doctoral
program with an undergraduate GPA of 3.3+ or a graduate GPA of 3.6+
are eligible for this award. This scholarship provides $2,500 toward
tuition for the academic year (fall and spring).
Graduate Dean’s IV
Any student accepted to a doctoral program with a 3.4+ undergraduate
or 3.7+ graduate GPA is eligible for this award. This scholarship
provides either full in-state tuition for Louisiana residents or $5,000
toward out-of-state tuition for the academic year (fall and spring).
Crescent City Doctoral Scholarship
Any student accepted to a doctoral program with a 3.5+ undergraduate
GPA or a 3.8+ graduate GPA is eligible for this award. This
scholarship provides a waiver of tuition and the nonresident fee for
the academic year (fall and spring.)
Student Financial Aid
For detailed information go to www.finaid.uno.edu or write the
Office of Student Financial Aid, University of New Orleans, New
Orleans, LA 70148.
Career Development Services
The University, through its centralized Career Development Center,
assists students and alumni with their career planning and provides
information and materials on career development and employment
opportunities. Professional counseling assistance is available to all
students and alumni upon request. A permanent Career Information
Library is maintained containing literature and publications concerning
career fields and employers. The University is a member of the
College Placement Council and endorses and follows the principles and
practices of this national organization. Research data is continually
being developed by this organization and is made available to both
students and faculty to keep them currently informed on conditions
and opportunities in the job market for college graduates.
During the fall and spring semesters, representatives from business,
industry, government, and education visit the Career Planning
and Placement Center to interview students for career employment.
In order to participate in the interviewing, graduating students should
register with the Center early in the fall of the year of their graduation
by completing the registration packet. Departmental orientation
programs are held each fall to acquaint students with the Career Planning
and Placement Program.
A credentials service is available for students on an optional basis
and procedures followed are as established in the Family Education
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
Affiliated Research
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
The University of New Orleans is affiliated with the Oak Ridge
Associated Universities and the Southeastern Universities Research
Association. Both organizations provide research collaboration opportunities
with federal research facilities, other universities within the
southeast, and corporate organizations. Together the universities work
toward acquiring joint opportunities to compete for large research
projects, to acquire shared information technology and to work in
additional ways made possible by the critical number of universities
involved. The two organizations also offer opportunities to faculty
and graduate students to participate in research through fellowships
for graduate students and research affiliations for faculty.
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) is an
organization of public universities in the state including the University
of New Orleans. LUMCON was chartered in 1979 to develop coordinated
marine research and education within the state university
system and provide coastal facilities for these programs.
LUMCON’s principal facility is the Universities Marine Center at
Cocodrie. The Marine Center consists of a fifty thousand square foot
laboratory-dormitory complex, ninety-five foot and fifty-five foot
research vessels, numerous small vessels and collecting equipment,
and docking and service facilities for all the vessels. Satellite facilities
with laboratories, accommodations, and small boats are operational at
Port Fourchon and at Fearman Bayou. The Port Fourchon Laboratory
provides ready access to salt and brackish marshes, the bays and bayous
of the Timbalier and Barataria Bay systems, beaches, and the Gulf
of Mexico; while the Fearman Bayou Laboratory provides access to a
wildlife refuge on Vermillion Bay, brackish and fresh water marshes,
and coastal cheniers.
College courses in the marine sciences offered at all three facilities
emphasize extensive field experience and studies of living organisms
in their natural habitat and in the laboratory. Enrollment in
each course may be limited by space and accommodations available
at a particular laboratory, but applicants from member institutions of
LUMCON will be given priority. Students enrolled at UNO will register
for LUMCON courses through UNO and will pay tuition based on the
UNO fee schedule. Credit for such courses will be awarded by UNO
and will be recorded on student transcripts. For details of marine
science courses to be offered at LUMCON facilities see course offering
in Biological Sciences, and consult the Chairs of the Departments of
Biological Sciences and Geology and Geophysics.
Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP)
The University of New Orleans is a recipient of funds from the
National Science Foundation through the Louisiana Board of Regents
to implement and administer a program on the UNO campus called
the Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP). LAMP goals
are to expand and reinforce systemic mentoring, including research
participation and guidance to graduate students. The overall goal is
to improve minority participation in science and math education and
technology. Various LAMP programs introduce students to research
tools and methods, provide hands-on research experience, build
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