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...
by Gentilly Messenger · Published March 8, 2022 · Last modified March 19, 2022
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...
By Daniel Schwalm and Domonique Tolliver Universities in New Orleans are shifting their COVID guidelines as the Delta variant becomes more prevalent. The University of New Orleans is now requiring masks indoors for everyone, vaccinated or not. “This may seem...
Tulane Summer Baseball Camp is gearing up for more fun! Registration for the Tulane Summer Baseball Academy middle school camp and the high school showcase are open for all. The July portion of the exciting and informative youth camps will...
Dillard University and the Louisiana State University Health Shreveport School of Medicine have established a partnership to allow more Dillard students to apply to medical school. The partnership was created through a memorandum of understanding that states that all Dillard...
Tulane University athletics is excited to announce the return of the premier baseball camp of New Orleans. Backed by a deep history of the game, love of the sport, and the spirit and community of sportsmanship, Tulane Baseball Academy has...
New this month is a virtual exhibit that shows how New Orleans has benefited from Black leadership and engagement since the 19th Century. Hancock Whitney and the Amistad Research Center at Tulane have partnered to present this curated collection, entitled...
By Camille Barnett, Gentilly Messenger With spring graduation ceremonies canceled or postponed, many class of 2020 graduates are disappointed that their official graduation day won’t be recognized the way they had anticipated. “That walk across a stage was earned through...
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by Tyree Worthy · Published May 6, 2020 · Last modified May 8, 2020
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...
