Performing at Jazz Fest? Let us know!
February 28, 2018
As New Orleans gears up for spring festival season, we’re looking for individuals who will play a role during the 2018 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Submissions may be featured in New Wave.
Pop-up exhibit celebrates Newcomb College history
February 28, 2018
Newcomb Art Museum is hosting a pop-up exhibition titled “The Most Natural Expression of Locality: Jazz, Newcomb Pottery and the Creative Impulse in Turn-of-the-Century New Orleans” on the fifth floor of Howard Tilton Memorial Library.
Archaeologist uncovers hidden history of conquistadors in American South
February 27, 2018
Professor of anthropology Christopher Rodning documents historical interactions between Native Americans and European explorers while excavating Fort San Juan — the earliest known European settlement in the interior United States.
Symposium to show how New Orleans became ‘home’ to many
February 26, 2018
Tulane University will co-sponsor a series of lectures, panels and roundtable discussions themed “Making New Orleans Home: A Tricentennial Symposium” that will feature events throughout the city from March 8-11.
Opera returns to Tulane
February 26, 2018
For the first time since the 1980s, the Newcomb Department of Music in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts will present a student production of The Old Maid and the Thief, an opera-comedy by Gian Carlo Menotti, on March 8 and 10 on the uptown campus.
Slave ownership makes for complicated familial histories
February 23, 2018
On March 6, author Edward Ball will lead a talk titled, “Life of a Klansman,” exploring the life of Ball’s great-grandfather, who violently opposed racial democracy in Louisiana between 1865 and 1877.
Peace Corps names Tulane No. 1 producer of volunteers for 2018
February 21, 2018
For the fourth consecutive year, Tulane University is ranked first among graduate schools for the number of volunteers who join the Peace Corps. There are 27 alumni currently serving.
‘Ma Francophonie’ inspires stories about French New Orleans
February 19, 2018
The French Graduate Student Association of Tulane University has a new project called Ma Francophonie NOLA, an initiative that will explore the ways that the city’s French heritage influences life today.
Change of pace
February 15, 2018
The end of Mardi Gras marks the beginning of Lent for many in the Tulane community.
Love notes
February 09, 2018
The Louisiana Research Collection documents the social and business life of New Orleans from the 1850s through the 1930s.
Tulane MakerSpace an inspiration to New Orleans schools
February 08, 2018
Tulane University is adding an outreach component to its already successful MakerSpace program.
Latin American Library brings 1960s radionovelas to the digital age
February 07, 2018
In a move that will make important works of Latino popular culture more widely available, the Latin American Library at Tulane University will digitize 36 of 135 audio recordings in the Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Boeri Collection of Cuban American Radionovelas unavailable to the public since their original broadcasts in the 1960s.
A grand marshal, a Carnival queen and a krewe of skeletons
February 07, 2018
Members of the Tulane community are not only Carnival spectators, many are participants in the pageantry of Mardi Gras.
Activists, journalists and celebrities team up to ‘Unrig the System’
February 05, 2018
The Unrig the System Summit welcomed attendees to the Tulane University uptown campus for a weekend conference that encouraged collaboration to develop solutions for pressing political issues.
Pint-sized parade
February 05, 2018
The Krewe of Newcomb rolls through the uptown campus spreading carnival cheer.