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Tulane associate professor, author Jesmyn Ward has been selected as a one of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows, or recipient of the so-called “genius grant”. (Photo by Guillermo Cabrera-Rojo)

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MacArthur ‘genius grant’ awarded to Tulane professor, author Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University, has been selected as one of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows, or recipient of the so-called “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Ward is a 2011 National Book Award winner for her novel Salvage the...

Nothing packed the old Tulane Stadium like a game against LSU.

Full house

Journey begins for new Fulbright scholars at Tulane

Taylor Center offers a lecture for doers

OZZI comes to the Lavin-Bernick Center

Joseph Merrick Jones Hall is the first in an ongoing series of building portraits.

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Keeping up with the Jones

Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., has served many roles since its completion in 1941. First dedicated as Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, it became the second location of the library on Tulane’s uptown campus (the first was Tilton Memorial). After the library moved into its current location in 1968, the...

Exhibit uncovers the untold story of women in music

Tulane poll finds New Orleans poised to elect first female mayor

Daniel Shantz is working to solve one of the chemical industries most demanding transformations, the direct conversion of benzene to phenol.

Tulane lab looks to create 'dream reaction'

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Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists

Aug 24, 2017 to Dec 23, 2017

Hailing from across the United States, the artists in this exhibition explore new ways of abstraction based on experimental, process-oriented methods. Intended to defamiliarize common imagery, their practices preclude figurative recognition or...