Marianne Desmarais, School of Architecture professor of practice and director of undergraduate architecture programs, has been named an Artist-in-Residence for 2019 at the Joan Mitchell Center in the historic Treme neighborhood in New Orleans. A residency, Desmarais said, changes not only an artist’s work but the artist themselves. “The experience of an art residency feels simultaneously like time sped up and time slowed down.”

In January, the A. B. Freeman School of Business began offering classes in downtown New Orleans at the Stewart Center CBD, located at the corner of Howard Avenue and Carondelet Street. The 21,000-square-foot space houses the Stewart Center for Executive Education, which includes Freeman’s executive MBA program and custom, non-degree programs for professionals, the Goldring Institute for International Business and a newly launched program in Entrepreneurial Hospitality.