Tagged: Dillard University
Dillard University’s Office of Academic Affairs has named a New Orleans native as a valedictorian to be honored Saturday (May 13) during Dillard’s 2023 commencement. Erica Woodridge is one of five to receive the distinction of valedictorian in Dillard’s 2023...
Dillard University’s inaugural baseball team won the 2023 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championship on Sunday in Jackson, Mississippi. The team, who entered the tournament as the second seed, played five games in three days in the cold rain — defeating...
The Dillard University Concert Choir will render its Annual Spring Concert on Sunday, April 30, at 3 p.m. The concert will be held at Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 5276 Bullard Ave. The choir will feature 40 voices from across the...
Dillard’s School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is hosting an open house workshop for middle school students. The Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers program will be held Saturday (March 25) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dillard’s...
Dillard University has moved forward with a plan to offer a master’s degree in nursing, a major step for the four-year private liberal arts institution. More graduate level programs are expected in the future. The Southern Association of Colleges and...
This week is jam-packed for Dillard University, with plans Tuesday (Nov. 15) to host Dr. Joycelyn Elders for a fireside chat to kick off the college’s Minority Health & Health Equity Research Program’s lecture series. On Thursday, the annual Ortique...
Dillard University’s Office of Community and Church Relations has received a $10,000 grant to create a community garden at Bethany United Methodist Church in Pontchartrain Park and to conduct four community health fairs and six healthy cooking demonstrations. A community...
Dillard University has announced its eighth president will be Rochelle L. Ford, currently the dean of Elon University’s School of Communications. Ford will assume her role as president July 1. At Elon she leads more than 80 faculty and 1,500...
The Dillard University mock trial team has advanced to the Opening Round Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, after successes in American Mock Trial Association’s Regional Tournament. Seven hundred college teams entered the regional rounds. Dillard’s team, part of the university’s pre-law...
From Dillard University Dillard University’s homecoming parade will return to the Gentilly neighborhood for the first time since 2019 at 9 a.m. on Saturday (Nov. 13). The route will take students, alumni, faculty, staff and guests from the intersection of...
From Dillard University Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough has informed the university’s Board of Trustees that the 2021-22 school year will be his last as leader of the 152-year-old historically Black institution of higher learning. Entering his 10th year at...
Dillard University alumnus Jericho Brown has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2019 collection entitled “The Tradition.” The Pulitzer board deemed it “a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation...