2022 NCAA Men's Final Four offers more than just basketball games for fans
March 24, 2022
Tulane University is a host institution for the upcoming 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four. The Final Four will take place in New Orleans April 1-4, and the weekend offers more than championship basketball. Events such as the Men’s Final Four Fan Fest Presented by Capital One, the March Madness Music Festival, the NCAA Dribble presented by Buick and the Reese’s Men’s Final Four Friday are great opportunities for families to attend together.
Dumpstaphunk to headline Crawfest’s return to campus in April
March 21, 2022
On Saturday, April 23, Crawfest returns to the Berger Family Lawn on Tulane’s uptown campus. The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will feature live music, including Dumpstaphunk, art vendors and lots of crawfish!
Tulane neuroscientist among women honored in Smithsonian’s If/Then exhibit
March 17, 2022
This March the Smithsonian is adding to the excitement of Women’s History Month with the opening of “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit”, a collection of 120 life size 3D-printed statues honoring groundbreaking women in STEM. Elizabeth “Liz” Engler-Chiurazzi, Tulane assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center at the School of Medicine, was chosen as one of the 120 If/Then ambassadors.This March the Smithsonian is adding to the excitement of Women’s History Month with the opening of “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit”, a collection of 120 life size 3D-printed statues honoring groundbreaking women in STEM. Elizabeth “Liz” Engler-Chiurazzi, Tulane assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center at the School of Medicine, was chosen as one of the 120 If/Then ambassadors.
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presents annual Indigenous Studies Symposium
March 11, 2022
The 4th annual Tulane Gulf South Indigenous Studies Symposium, titled “Sassafras, Stickball and Stories: Indigenous Cultures of the Gulf South,” and will be held March 18-19 in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall in the Lavin Bernick-Center for University Life.
Tulane library hosts new exhibit celebrating Jazz Fest's first decade
March 04, 2022
Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) to present “Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979, featuring archival materials and audio recordings related to the first 10 years of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Book Festival reveals inaugural 2022 poster
March 03, 2022
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University unveiled its official 2022 poster for the inaugural event, which features the artwork of Emma Fick, a talented local author, artist and illustrator from nearby Covington who now lives and works in New Orleans.
Newcomb Art Museum presents ‘Core Memory’ with exhibitions on weaving, basketry and systems-based textiles
February 21, 2022
Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University will host its upcoming exhibition season Core Memory, with two exhibitions Louisiana Native American Basketry and Encoded, that draw from the creative legacy of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College and its prescient synthesis of art, craft and design to understand weaving technologies.
Book Festival announces full schedule for inaugural three-day literary celebration
February 17, 2022
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University announced today its much-anticipated lineup and complete schedule for its inaugural event, which will take place March 10-12, on Tulane University's uptown campus. The book festival is free and open to the public.
Tulane to host X's and O's, a play about football and traumatic brain injury
February 14, 2022
Six years ago, Tulane University assistant professor Jenny Mercein and playwright KJ Sanchez co-created a play called X’s and O’s that examines the lasting physical and neurological impacts from playing football. Mercein and Sanchez are now bringing their docudrama to Tulane’s campus.
Book Fest announces additional authors, unveils Family Day, culinary and musical lineups
February 07, 2022
The highly-anticipated lineup is set for the inaugural 2022 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Today, the book festival announced the addition of 10 award-winning authors, a dynamic group of 13 Family Day at the Festival authors, as well as a contingent of New Orleans’ most celebrated chefs for a savory culinary lineup and an all-star musical lineup.
Book Fest to host a conversation with Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball and Big Freedia
February 07, 2022
In celebration of Black History Month, the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University is proud to host 'Vulnerable AF: A Conversation with Tarriona 'Tank' Ball and Big Freedia' at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15 at Dixon Hall on Tulane’s uptown campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Sawyer Seminars launch second symposium, ‘From River Road to Copenhagen: Revising our Remembrance of the Past’
February 01, 2022
From River Road to Copenhagen: Revising our Remembrance of the Past, is a multi-part symposium running Feb. 10-15 that explores innovative approaches to publicly addressing the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade in the Americas.
Sawyer Seminars launch first events
December 06, 2021
Tulane has launched the Mellon Foundation-sponsored Sawyer Seminar, Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Place-based Histories in the Americas. Its inaugural programs begin Dec. 7.
Pitch Fridays give student entrepreneurs the chance to level up
November 29, 2021
Pitch Fridays, a program of the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, gives students the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges comprised of successful businesspeople.