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.
January 11, 2021
Students began trickling into the Arrival Center at the Hyatt Regency Hotel this past weekend ahead of moving on to campus for the spring semester.
January 08, 2021
Tulane University has been designated as a COVID-19 vaccine provider site by the Louisiana Department of Health and will become one of the first universities in the state to begin administering doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The designation allows Tulane to receive vaccines directly from manufacturers and rapidly mobilize staff to provide immunizations for those in the university community who are eligible under state guidelines.
January 05, 2021
The first cohort of the Tulane School of Medicine’s Pathologists’ Assistant Program celebrated their first-year achievements at a White Coat Ceremony on December 18, 2020.
January 04, 2021
Reopening K-12 schools in the United States did not result in an increase in hospitalizations — in most cases — due to COVID-19, according to a new study by the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) at Tulane University.
December 17, 2020
2020 was an unprecedented year, from the COVID-19 pandemic, to a national reckoning regarding systemic racism and inequality, to several severe weather events and hurricanes to, finally, hope as the first batches of vaccines arrived. Here is a look back at Tulane’s year in photos.