The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.
Faculty and student research and reflections on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. McNeese played host to over 200 displaced students from New Orleans after Katrina who were forced to evacuate a second time when Rita struck southwest Louisiana on September 23, 2005.