The Entrepreneurship Pelican Cup hosted its third annual awards luncheon on April 19, 2024, at ULM's Bayou Pointe Event Center. The luncheon was the culmination of the entrepreneurship competition, with $96,000 in prize money awarded to the three top teams, including their faculty advisors, and the winner of the live elevator pitch competition, voted on by attendees of the luncheon.

The University of Louisiana Monroe School of Visual and Performing Arts invites the public to several upcoming end-of-semester performances. The Spring Fusion Dance Concert will take place Friday, April 26, the ULM Brass Ensembles will perform on Sunday, April 28, and the Bayou Masterworks Chorale will perform on Monday, April 29. Please see below for full details about each performance.

On March 5, 2024, Robert Hanser, Ph.D., in conjunction with ULM graduate students Fred Louis, Daniel Carson, and David Chism, presented preliminary findings on "Student Perceptions of TRIO Services: An Examination of Diversity, Mental Health, and COVID Considerations" at the Louisiana Association of Student Assistance Programs 52nd Annual Conference (LASAP) in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The University of Louisiana Monroe Honors Program joined the annual meeting of the Southern Regional Honors Council on April 3-6, in Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. Joshua Stockley, Director of the ULM Honors Program, was accompanied by four students - Beau Benoit, a senior toxicology major; Caitlyn Cullen, a senior political science major; Taylor Brinson, a senior psychology major; and Isabella Coates, a junior psychology major.

ULM Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) faculty and students attended the 2024 American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) of Louisiana and Mississippi Bi-State Annual Meeting in Biloxi, Miss. on March 25 - 27, 2024. Twenty-five MLS students represented ULM at the conference.

On Monday, April 15, 2024, at the University of Louisiana Monroe, the Alpha Zeta Nu Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, inducted five new members. Elenora Franco, Haleigh Lewellyan, Jessica DeFreese, Mallory LaBoeuf, and Melanna Morris were inducted during the ceremony.

The 3rd Annual Entrepreneurship Pelican Cup Awards Luncheon will be held Friday, April 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Bayou Pointe Event Center on the ULM campus. Tickets are on sale now for $100 for the general public and $50 for students. Visit www.ulm.edu/pelicancup for ticket and sponsorship information.

Naresh Chhetri and Abhishek Amgain, international students from Nepal, and computer science majors at ULM, created a computer science workshop for high school freshmen as part of their work with the ULM TRiO Programs. Pushkar Kandel, international student from Nepal and mathematics/actuarial science major, assisted with the creation of the workshop. All three have held campus jobs as tutors for ULM's TRiO participants. On March 14, 2024, they presented the computer science workshop to TRiO staff and received excellent reviews. Chhetri and Amgain will now pilot the workshop in selected ninth-grade robotics, math, and science classrooms in TRiO Educational Talent Search's target area schools.

ULM Professor of History and Associate Director of the School of Humanities Dr. Jeffrey E. Anderson had his new book published by LSU Press in March. Voodoo: An African American Religion is a modern account of the voodoo faith as it existed in the Mississippi River valley from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century, when, he argues, it ceased to thrive as a living tradition.

The ULM Foundation recently hosted a gathering to honor the ULM legacy of the late Jimmy Dimos. On Saturday, February 24, 2024, friends, family, and ULM faculty and staff attended the event at the Laird Weems Center to celebrate the life of one of our area's most prominent citizens.

ULM Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science Dr. Todd Murphy and students in the ULM Atmospheric Science program traveled to Cabot, Ark., on Monday, April 8, to locate in the path of totality for an atmospheric boundary layer experiment during the total solar eclipse. ULM was one of multiple atmospheric science groups in the field on Monday within the path collecting measurements on how the abrupt decrease in solar radiation would impact the lower part of the atmosphere called the boundary layer.

Due to extensive flooding and damage caused by the severe weather our area has experienced this evening, classes are cancelled, and the ULM campus will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10th. We will give further updates tomorrow as the storm system continues through our area. We encourage our employees and students not to travel during the storm. If you must travel, please take all precautions when driving. ULM will issue statements on the ULM Safe app (download at App Store and Google Play), campus-wide email, ulm.edu and ULM Facebook, Twitter @ulm_official, and Instagram @ulmonroe. Stay informed at 90.3 KEDM, Facebook/National Weather Service Shreveport, and Twitter @NWSShreveport. For emergencies on campus, use the ULM Safe app to contact the University Police Department or call 318-342-5350 or dial 911. Description

The University of Louisiana Monroe has expanded its Super Warhawk Weekend to an entire week for 2024. Super Warhawk Week will take place from Sunday, April 14 - Sunday, April 21. The week, featuring a host of athletic events, kicks off with the Harlem Globetrotters live at Fant-Ewing Coliseum on April 14 and includes events throughout the week featuring baseball, softball, tennis, and the ULM Spring Football Game on Saturday, April 20. See below for full details and visit www.ulm.edu/super for registration information. Tickets for the Harlem Globetrotters, ULM Softball, and ULM Baseball are available at www.ulmwarhawks.com.