Google awards Tulane professor for work promoting diversity and fairness in AI systems
April 12, 2021
An artificial intelligence expert from Tulane has received a Google Scholar Research Award to develop better ways of promoting diversity and fairness in hiring and graduate school admissions.
Research on local accents creates a unique record of New Orleans
April 05, 2021
Nathalie Dajko, associate professor of anthropology at the School of Liberal Arts, studies the lexicon and accents of New Orleans with her research partner, Virginia Tech professor Katie Carmichael.
Tulane teams up with New Orleans Airlift for in-person dance performance
April 01, 2021
The Newcomb Dance Company and the Tulane University Department of Theatre and Dance is teaming up with New Orleans Airlift for “The Body Remembers” at Music Box Village.
Tulane to host Anti-Racism and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Teach-In for faculty, staff
March 30, 2021
The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will host an Anti-Racism and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Teach-In for featuring addresses by anti-racist leaders Rhonda Broussard & Ibram X. Kendi.
Tulane trauma expert part of program on mental health in the military
March 29, 2021
Acclaimed trauma expert Charles Figley, director of the Tulane Traumatology Institute, will speak on a national live-stream this week about mental health challenges in the military.
Duke scholar to speak as part of Tulane anti-racism series
March 25, 2021
The Dean's Speaker Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines continues March 30 with a talk by Lee D. Baker, a cultural anthropologist at Duke University.
Walking tours provide students with deeper perspective on city’s architecture, history
March 24, 2021
Richard Campanella, associate dean for research and professor at the School of Architecture, leads students on free walking tours throughout certain areas of the city, giving an in-depth and up-close look at the city’s urban geography, architecture, history and culture along the way. The tours are outside and socially distanced, with all attendees required to wear a mask. The tours are limited to 12 students at a time.
Tulane students vying to win international contest for cancer screening design
March 11, 2021
Tulane students are vying to win an international contest for their design to screen cervix cancer.
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South hosts the Third Annual Indigenous Symposium
March 09, 2021
The Third Annual New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Indigenous Symposium will take place after a yearlong postponement this Friday, March 12, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Tulane researchers part of team studying volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands
March 08, 2021
Tulane scientists are part of an international team of researchers studying the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands.
Burnout among social workers a real issue amid pandemic, Tulane researchers say
March 04, 2021
Social workers are an integral part of the helping community, yet they are as susceptible to job burnout as anyone on the front lines, according to researchers.
Tulane to host virtual discussion on ‘Anti-Racism and Sociology’
February 25, 2021
The SLA Dean’s Speaker Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines continues March 2 with a talk by race expert Mary Pattillo, a professor at Northwestern University.
Newcomb Art Museum, Taylor Center to host discussion on public safety
February 24, 2021
Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane invite all to join for a dialogue exploring what public safety means to them and how we can reimagine and recreate municipal mechanisms for citizen safety.