New students challenged at unique Convocation to contemplate their ‘one wild and precious life’
August 16, 2020
This year’s President’s Convocation may have had a different look due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still provided the same warm and excited welcome for the 1,800 new Tulane students who make up the Class of 2024.
New students experience Tulane orientation through innovative new format
August 10, 2020
Dr. Kourtney Gray, director of New Student and Leadership Programs in the Office of Student Affairs, was a newly minted Tulanian and close to wrapping up his first academic year when COVID-19 prompted the university to suspend on-campus operations early.
Tulane announces Wave ’20, a virtual celebration of homecoming and more
July 08, 2020
Join other Tulanians Oct. 12-17, 2020, for Wave ’20, a weeklong online celebration of Homecoming, Alumni, Reunions, Students and Families. Mark your calendar now and visit homecoming.tulane.edu for details and updates.
Panel to address COVID-19’s impact on K-12 schools, students and fall
July 08, 2020
The next installment of Tulane's Innovation Series will discuss how schools across the country adapted to COVID-19 closures, how those changes may affect learning and how parents and students are coping with coronavirus uncertainties this fall.
Gulf South Anthropocene Working Group addresses the theme “Racialized Violence” for upcoming Braid and Flow events
June 15, 2020
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS) has partnered with The Water Leaders Institute and The Blue House NOLA to host Braid and Flow, a series of online gatherings that address ecological and political dynamics of our time.
Class of 2020 Newcomb Scholars present digital symposium
May 06, 2020
Upon completing the Newcomb Scholars program, the scholars present their research at the annual Scholars Symposium. This year’s symposium, like so many other end-of-year traditions, has moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newcomb Institute, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library to host Wikipedia edit-a-thon for gender equity
March 05, 2020
In an effort to make Wikipedia more gender inclusive, Newcomb Institute and Howard-Tilton Memorial Library are participating for the fifth year in a row with intersectional non-profit Art+Feminism’s efforts to directly address the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet.
Registration open for annual Wave of Green Day of Service
March 04, 2020
Tulane’s 2020 faculty and staff day of service, Wave of Green, will take place Thursday, April 9.
Newcomb Art Museum’s exhibition ‘Per(Sister)’ opens in New York
February 27, 2020
Newcomb Art Museum’s exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana will be on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City through May 9.
A Studio in the Woods, Tulane biologists to recycle Mardi Gras beads, raise awareness
February 20, 2020
Artist and printmaker Pippin Frisbie-Calder, scientists from Tulane’s Karubian Lab and community volunteers will be out on the uptown parade route Sunday, Feb. 23, to recycle beads and raise awareness about lead contamination in the city of New Orleans.
Tulane professor of anthropology inducted into Folk DJ Hall of Fame
February 10, 2020
Nick Spitzer, creator and producer of the “American Routes” radio show, was recognized by Folk Alliance International at its January conference.
Tulane to host symposium on the literary history of New Orleans
January 16, 2020
A free, day-long symposium that draws from T.R. Johnson’s New Orleans: A Literary History will be held on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Stibbs conference room of Tulane’s Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life.