Newcomb Archives invites contributions of original artwork, ephemera, photographs, zines, personal essays, poems or other types of submissions created by women and trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming and LGBQ individuals during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine.

Tulane National Primate Research Center Director, Dr. Jay Rappaport, was recently invited by Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a member of a newly formed NIH public-private collaboration to rapidly and effectively respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and prepare for future pandemics.

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) available to healthcare workers around the country, and companies are stepping up to help protect those on the front line. This week, medical staff in New Orleans — one of the country’s hardest hit areas — received thousands of face shields from Apple as part of a PPE drive organized by Tulane School of Medicine.

Submitting test scores for the SAT or ACT will be an optional, not required, part of the admission process for students applying this fall for a spot in Tulane University’s 2021 entering class. This is a one-year policy change by Tulane in response to the multiple test cancelations that have occurred around the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Such cancellations have made it difficult for applicants to take or retake tests.

Branches of the United States military are now feeling the effects of the coronavirus, and that has U.S. military leaders facing a completely new challenge— how to maintain an elite state of readiness against threats, both foreign and domestic while fighting an invisible, deadly virus.

A team of Tulane University students from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the School of Medicine is competing in the John Hopkins Center for Bioengineering and Design COVID-19 Design Challenge, one of only 200 teams.