An evening with Ellis Marsalis
September 26, 2019
Ellis Marsalis, legendary jazz pianist, performed at Tulane’s Dixon Hall Thursday night as a part of Newcomb-Tulane College’s Lagniappe Series.
Newcomb Institute to host non-partisan workshop to encourage more women to run for office
September 23, 2019
Tulane and Loyola universities are partnering to host Elect Her, a national nonpartisan training program aimed at empowering and encouraging women to take on leadership roles on and off college campuses.
Students volunteer across New Orleans for Outreach 2019
September 09, 2019
On Saturday, Sept. 7, despite temperatures in the mid-90s, Tulane students volunteered at many locations across the city for Outreach Tulane 2019, Tulane's annual student day of community service.
Explore Newcomb Art Museum’s new exhibitions with opening weekend activities
September 03, 2019
Newcomb Art Museum is hosting a weekend of celebratory activities, including an opening reception, an exhibition panel, gallery talk, and family activity day – all free and open to the public.
Tulane professor of dance to perform at festival in South Africa
August 12, 2019
Tulane Assistant Professor of Dance Leslie Scott has been invited to perform her work, hymn + them, at the JOMBA! International Dance Festival in Durban, South Africa.
The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presents ‘New Orleans: Music, Culture and Civil Rights’
July 10, 2019
The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presented the second session of “New Orleans: Music, Culture and Civil Rights,” in which teachers from around the country studied New Orleans to learn how harsh social conditions and vast inequities can be the catalyst for beautiful cultural forms.
TU Wellness and Staff Advisory Council to host intramural staff kickball game
June 17, 2019
TU Wellness and the Staff Advisory Council invite Tulane faculty and staff to join in a game of intramural kickball, the first in a series of intramural games, on July 18 at 5:30 p.m.
Newcomb Art Museum to host celebration of Juneteenth and Per(Sister) exhibition
June 17, 2019
Beginning at 5 p.m. June 19, the museum’s galleries will be taken over by artists, activists, and PerSisters (and some who identify as all three) as they use their performative work to celebrate the stories on view and raise awareness of the stories yet to be told.
Pink Bra Run benefits Tulane Cancer Center
May 07, 2019
A parade of participants wearing pink will pound the pavement this Saturday for the 4th annual Pink Bra Run.
Tulane University, WHIV to launch inaugural Public Health Film Festival
April 15, 2019
The Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, community radio station 102.3 FM WHIV-LP and the Southern Center for Health Equity will produce the inaugural Public Health Film Festival of New Orleans to showcase cinematic stories that emphasize disparities in both public health and basic individual rights.
Famed American filmmaker Ken Burns to visit Tulane
March 19, 2019
Prominent American filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Tulane University on Friday, March 29, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tulane professor of history Walter Isaacson will moderate a dialogue with Burns, which will include clips of Burns’ groundbreaking works and a discussion of the people and events that molded America’s history. A question and answer session will follow the discussion. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Kendall Cram Room on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, which is located on Tulane’s uptown campus.
Tulane workshop examines barriers to women in state and local politics
February 20, 2019
A workshop being hosted by Tulane University will take a close look at the challenges women candidates face when running for state and local office. More than 25 scholars from around the country are coming to Tulane for the two-day event sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute and Louisiana State University’s Reilly Center.
Newcomb Art Museum hosts author reading and signing on New Orleans sculptor Angela Gregory
February 14, 2019
Newcomb Art Museum will present an author talk and reading in Freeman Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 6:30 p.m. on A Dream and a Chisel, a powerful new memoir of sculptor Angela Gregory’s years in Paris.
Tulane medical students raise money for pediatric cancer research
February 05, 2019
Off with their hair! Tulane University School of Medicine students braved a shave to benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The event raised more than $8,000 for the organization, which supports children with cancer.