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LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans One of First Universities to Resume Classes in New Orleans

Students in the School of Graduate Studies at LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans began classes on the New Orleans campus on January 17, 2006. Students in the Interdisciplinary Program attended a full day of lectures in the Mervin L. Trail, MD Clinical Sciences Research Building at 533 Bolivar Street.

LSU Health Sciences Center has been an integral part of New Orleans for the past 75 years, notes Dr. Larry Hollier, Acting Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences at New Orleans, including during and after Hurricane Katrina. Our faculty were key to the areas response and, with our students, continue to make significant contributions to the recovery process. We are enormously proud of our faculty, staff, and students historic accomplishment in getting our educational programs up and running just four weeks after the storm, and we are proud to be among the first universities to resume classes in New Orleans.

The School of Graduate Studies is the third LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans school to resume classes in New Orleans this month. Classes in the School of Public Health began on January 9, 2006 in borrowed space at the UNO Research and Technology Park. Students in the School of Nursing began their graduate programs in New Orleans on January 12, 2006.

The School of Allied Health Professions is planning to return during the first quarter of 2006. The School of Medicine will move back to New Orleans in May, 2006. The School of Dentistry, which sustained the most damage, is expected to be back in the fall.

For further information, contact Leslie Capo, Director of Information Services at LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans, at (504) 452-9166.