The installation of numerous hands-free bottle filling stations on the uptown campus is one of the pandemic-driven upgrades that is here to stay, thanks to work by the Office of Sustainability, Facilities Services and a student-led, crowd-sourced research effort.

Tulane University welcomed almost 2,000 first-year students and 100 transfer students on Aug. 19 at the 2021 President’s Convocation for New Students, the first official event for the Class of 2025, as newly minted Tulanians.

The university has worked diligently to facilitate the safe return of students for the fall 2021 semester on campus.

Tulane University researchers have developed a new type of blood test to find COVID-19 infections that may be missed by nasal swab PCR tests. The blood test uses nanoparticles to detect fragments of the virus released by infected cells anywhere in the body according to new study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Tulane University has launched a new COVID-19 “biobank” of blood and cell samples from COVID-19 survivors to help researchers investigate what causes some to recover quickly from the virus while others face lasting symptoms. The COVID-19 Biobank and Library at Tulane (COBALT) will safely store hundreds of biological samples that will be available to scientists at the university as well as external collaborators across the country. 

Tulane epidemiologist Susan Hassig  answers questions about the more contagious Delta variant including the risks of breakthrough cases, what parents should think about as school starts next month and whether we’re likely to need a vaccine booster shot later this year.