Marcus A. Coleman, professor of practice in the Department of Economics of the Tulane School of Liberal Arts (SLA) and faculty of SLA’s Strategy, Leadership and Analytics Minor, combines leadership development and community engagement with issues of food insecurity and the importance of developing equitable and sustainable food systems.
Tulane has announced a partnership with two New Orleans high schools, St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School and St. Augustine High School. Tulane will award full four-year tuition scholarships each year, two to each school, as well as pre-college summer programming and courses.
Pablo Gonzales, second-year Tulane Law student, has been elected editor-in-chief of Volume 99 of the Tulane Law Review, making him the first Latino and Mexican American to lead the flagship journal in its 109-year history.
Samuel Punshon-Smith, assistant professor in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering, has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellow, which recognizes exceptional early-career researchers as next-generation leaders.
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will collaborate with The Atlantic, the official national media partner for this year’s festival, to offer the opening sessions.
Endocrinologist and former Tulane researcher Dr. Andrew Schally has donated his Nobel Prize to Tulane University School of Medicine, where it will soon be put on display to inspire the next generation of researchers.
Tulane has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students for 2023-2024 by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, with 13 students selected. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the government’s flagship international educational exchange program.
Tulane University’s Carnival Collection, stored in person at Jones Hall on the uptown campus and online, features original float and costume designs from across the ages. The collection, which is available to the public free of charge, also features invitations, dance cards and other paper materials from Carnival krewes.
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University has unveiled its official 2024 poster design by New Orleans-based visual artist Brandan “BMIKE” Odums. The poster celebrates the power of storytelling and the bonds it fosters within communities.
Tulane has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to lead a team of climate scientists and engineers who will evaluate dangers from sea-level rise for 1,800+ military installations to help the U.S. military gauge its exposure and vulnerability.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, within the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Tulane a contract for up to $9.2 million to collaborate with Biotech company Q-Vant Biosciences Inc. to create a vaccine that can be delivered via a pill or dissolved beneath the tongue.
