Bruce SunpieBarnes and RachelBreunlin. Le Kèr Creole: Creole Compositions & Stories from Louisiana. Original songs and arrangements by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Leroy Joseph Etienne. Essays by Rachel Breunlin. Translations by Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Leroy Joseph Etienne, and Rachel Breunlin. Artwork by Francis X. Pavy. New Orleans: L’Union Créole and The Neighborhood Story Project with The University of New Orleans Press, 2019. viii + 113 pp., bibliography.

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-405
Author(s):  
Rebecca Louise Carter
1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-473
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Calnan ◽  
Harsha E. Chacko ◽  
Eddystone C. Nebel ◽  
Jeffrey D. Schaffer ◽  
G. Kent Stearns

The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration at the University of New Orleans was declared a Center of Excellence on Nov. 22,1987 by Chancellor Gregory M. St. L. O'Brien. The faculty of the School were asked to prepare adetailed proposal for a plan of action that would propel the University of New Orleans' hospitality education program into national prominence. In a review of the nation's 10 leading hospitality programs itwas determined, that in order to acquire a national reputation three missions must be met. These are: 1) alumni success, 2) academic recognition, and 3) industry recognition. The high visibility of a program that has been declared a center of excellence results in many benefits to a program. The most important benefit is budgetary priority. However, other benefits that accrue include recruitment of excellent students, increased industry support, community recognition and attracting quality faculty.


Author(s):  
Octavi Sado´ Garriga ◽  
Jeffrey M. Falzarano

The purpose of this paper is to combine and extend existing potential flow theory in order to analyze the linear free surface problem of an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device and apply it to moonpool design. Analytical results were obtained implementing the previously derived theories, and later compared to experimental results conducted at the University of New Orleans Towing Tank. The model tests consisted of a study of a cylindrical OWC. The theoretical and experimental results of the free surface for the OWC tests agree for the resonant frequency estimation response but they disagree on the amplitude of the response.


2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Serpa ◽  
Lisa White ◽  
Terry L. Pavlis
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2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
William Monfredo, PhD

This article discusses Hurricane Katrina’s meteorological setting and history, surrounding evacuation issues, and aftermath. The author, who lived in New Orleans for more than three years, taught and researched climatic hazards at the University of New Orleans, and was no stranger to evacuations, began driving to Tucson 18 hours before Katrina’s landfall and returned five months later. The article raises important considerations, including recommendations for the future. The results of flood-damage surveys conducted in Lakeview and the Lower Ninth Ward districts of New Orleans reveal an intriguing aspect: unlike in Lakeview, which filled with water over a period of hours, intense and widespread flash flooding occurred east of the Industrial Canal, yielding damage similar to that from an F4/F5 tornado. Perhaps more importantly, the article explores various reasons for why some people from these areas did not or will not evacuate when faced with imminent danger. Analyzing the events leading up to and following Katrina’s landfall can help us understand how such senseless tragedy resulted from several fatal flaws: denial, woeful preparation, and poverty. Given that Gulf Coast residents now live within a climate pattern of enhanced hurricane frequency and intensity compared to the three-decade period pre-1995, the best advice for those asked to evacuate is to just say yes.While this piece reads as a more personal account than most on the subject, it is hoped that it offers an intriguing perspective on the cultural issues impacting evacuations.


Geophysics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1237-1240

Faruq E. Akbar received his BS (1988) in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his MS (1992) in geophysics from the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. His professional interests are seismic data processing, modeling, migration, and inversion.


1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence R Klein

The nomination of Irving Kravis as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 1991 crowned a long and distinguished career. He would go on to no further accomplishments, for it was on the trip to the ASSA meetings in New Orleans to receive the award that he passed away at Philadelphia Airport on January 2, 1992. In spite of a debilitating illness, he had continued working until the end on problems and issues that were his main concerns for more than 50 years; with fuller physical powers, he would undoubtedly have made additional contributions to our profession. This paper first discusses his administrative and pedagogical contributions at the University of Pennsylvania and then his notable research contributions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Marshall

Brown, Don. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. OverDrive Read. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.While it wasn’t the “big one” that meteorologists had predicted for New Orleans, the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on August 29th, 2005 was monstrous in proportion. Many will surely remember the news stories, but Drowned City gives the reader an as-it-happened view of the various hardships faced by the residents and rescuers. Stories from all walks of life are here - the heroic acts of residents with boats who saved their neighbours, the hospital patients kept alive by friends and family after generators lost power, the forced separation of pets from owners, and the trains and cargo ships turned away as a result of mishandled organizational efforts. Throughout the story, Brown subtly explores the racial politics of the event, including Gretna’s police force turning away displaced New Orleanians, and George W. Bush comfortably surveying the chaos and squalor in the city below from his private jet. Once the streets had drained, the dead were accounted for - all 1,833 of them.Drowned City has already been featured on year-end lists from Kirkus, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. Rather than approach the story with a harshly dogmatic invective, Brown’s compassionate, matter-of-fact prose exposes the situation for what it was - a catastrophe that impacted millions of lives, featuring both acts of heroism and gross incompetence. Matching the text are the author’s gritty watercolours, crafted with a muted palette that effectively sets the tone of the book. This combination is used to illustrate the struggles that dogged survivors: stifling heat and stench without the reprieve of air conditioning.New Orleans’ recovery story remains complex; though rejuvenated tourism spending far surpasses pre-Katrina levels, its African American populations have dropped significantly since the storm. Brown’s book evocatively captures the event that changed everything for this great city and is a prototypical example of the power of graphic novels for historical subjects. A must for library collections.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Kyle MarshallKyle Marshall is the School-Aged Services Intern Librarian for Edmonton Public Library. He graduated with his MLIS from the University of Alberta in June 2015, and is passionate about diversity in children's and youth literature.


Author(s):  
Douglass F. Taber

Gojko Lalic of the University of Washington developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 6473) conditions for the preparation of the fluoride 2 by SN2 displacement of the triflate 1. Ross M. Denton of the University of Nottingham showed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 799) that a polymer-bound phosphine oxide activated with oxalyl bromide would convert an alcohol 3 to the bromide 4. The polymer could be filtered off and reactivated directly. Jonas C. Peters and Gregory C. Fu of Caltech devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 2162) a photochemically-activated Cu catalyst that mediated the displacement of the bromide 5 by the amide 6 to give 7. Mark L. Trudell of the University of New Orleans used (Synthesis 2014, 46, 230) an Ir catalyst to couple the amide 9 with the alcohol 8, leading to 10. Tohru Fukuyama of Nagoya University converted (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 727) the unsaturated aldehyde 11 into the ester 12. As the transformation proceeded via proton­ation of the enolized acyl cyanide, the less stable diastereomer was formed kinetically. Brindaban C. Ranu of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science developed (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 1040) conditions for the coupling of an alkenyl halide 13 with a phenol, leading to the vinyl ether 14. Inter alia, this would be a convenient way to hydrolyze an alkenyl halide to the aldehyde. Vinyl ethers can also be oxidized directly to the ester, and to the unsaturated aldehyde. Pallavi Sharma and John E. Moses of the University of Lincoln observed (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 2158) that the cyanation of the alkenyl halide 15 delivered 16, with retention of the geometry of the alkene. Jitendra K. Bera of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur uncovered (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 1444) “on water” conditions for the hydrolysis of a terminal alkyne 17 to the methyl ketone 18. Jiannan Xiang and Weimin He of Hunan University prepared (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 2668) the keto phosphonate 20 by hydrolysis of the alkynyl phosphonate 19. Ken-ichi Fujita of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology cyclized (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 3013) the alkyne 21 with CO₂, leading to 22.


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