February 08, 2021
For the second consecutive year, Tulane University will remain test-optional for students applying this fall for a spot in Tulane’s 2022 entering class. Going “test-optional” means these students will not be required to submit test scores for the SAT or ACT as part of the Tulane admissions process.
February 04, 2021
Tulane Microbiology Professor Robert Garry, PhD, talks about what the new variants mean for transmission and how they may impact the next phase of the pandemic.
February 04, 2021
Work on a new COVID-19 drug by a Tulane University School of Medicine researcher is getting fast-tracked. Jay Kolls, MD, a professor of medicine and pediatrics, the John W. Deming Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, and director of Tulane’s Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation, has received a $100,000 Fast Grant for his research to create a drug that prevents the COVID-19 virus from entering healthy cells.
February 04, 2021
Dr. Ronald Blanton, chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, answers common vaccine questions.
February 03, 2021
When COVID-19 sent countries into a global lockdown last year, Engy Ziedan, PhD, assistant professor of economics at the School of Liberal Arts, suspected she would measure the economic fallout.
February 03, 2021
The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is conducting COVID-19 testing at public locations around Orleans and Jefferson parishes for the nationwide COMPASS Study – Community Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Study (CoVPN 5002).
February 03, 2021
The National Institutes of Health has selected Tulane National Primate Research Center to lead a new partnership between the seven federally funded National Primate Research Centers to combine their efforts to accelerate promising COVID-19 vaccine and drug research.
January 25, 2021
Tulane School of Social Work panel to discuss how underserved communities can be part of the COVID-19 vaccine conversation.
January 20, 2021
Tulane’s campuses brimmed with excitement as students began the spring semester.
January 19, 2021
For the first time, Tulane University researchers have identified and replicated a little understood, hyperimmune response in nonhuman primates that could one day lead to treatments to rescue patients with severe cases of the disease. Their findings were published in The American Journal of Pathology.
January 14, 2021
Physicians, nurses, researchers, medical staff, volunteers and countless others have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic on the frontlines for months. Now, with the COVID-19 vaccine starting to be distributed to eligible groups, the community is one step closer to seeing an eventual end to the pandemic.
January 13, 2021
On Jan. 8, first-year medical students at Tulane School of Medicine received their white coats at the official White Coat Ceremony.
January 12, 2021
About 50 members of the Tulane community received their first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in the J. Bennett Johnston Building.
January 12, 2021
On Tuesday, Tulane University began administering the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to faculty, staff and students of some of its schools.