Tulane to create its eighth Presidential Chair with $5 million gift from alumnus
January 26, 2021
A $5 million gift from Tulane alumnus Richard M. Lerner will create the university’s eighth Presidential Chair, named for Lerner’s late father, Lawrence (left), a real-estate developer and bank director.
Tulane School of Social Work to offer virtual panel on COVID-19 and marginalized populations
January 25, 2021
Tulane School of Social Work panel to discuss how underserved communities can be part of the COVID-19 vaccine conversation.
Tulane race scholar to provide expertise to U.N. panel
January 21, 2021
Tulane race expert Andrea Boyles has been appointed as a delegate to a United Nations panel on global social issues.
Photos: Tulane rolls out COVID-19 vaccine
January 12, 2021
About 50 members of the Tulane community received their first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in the J. Bennett Johnston Building.
First cohort of Pathologists’ Assistant Program celebrates first year with White Coat Ceremony
January 05, 2021
The first cohort of the Tulane School of Medicine’s Pathologists’ Assistant Program celebrated their first-year achievements at a White Coat Ceremony on December 18, 2020.
Blocks and blocks of fun
December 17, 2020
Tulane architecture students turn leftover wood into a public service project to benefit local school children.
Tulane expert on race honored for book on Ferguson uprising
December 16, 2020
Tulane sociologist Andrea Boyles, an expert in Black citizen-police interaction, has been awarded a 2020 Media for a Just Society Award for her book “You Can’t Stop the Revolution."
Tulane researchers develop a rapid COVID-19 saliva test read by a smartphone device
December 11, 2020
Researchers from Tulane University have developed a 15-minute COVID-19 test that is read by a smartphone to address the need to expand testing capacity in community-based settings.
Tulane program part of new trial focused on early psychosis intervention
December 10, 2020
Early intervention following an episode of psychosis can change a young patient’s outcome. The National Institute of Mental Health recently awarded the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry a grant to expand its work in this vital area.
Tulane researcher shows enhanced therapeutic stem cell migration improves neurodegenerative disease
December 04, 2020
Jean-Pyo Lee, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Research Institute and the University of California San Diego, has shown for the first time that injection of a synthetic agonist, or drug, that attracts stem cell migration can improve neurological outcome in a mouse model of neurodegenerative disease.
Tulane professor’s book on Hurricane Katrina wins prestigious honor
December 04, 2020
Andy Horowitz's book on Hurricane Katrina wins Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Tulane University names renowned economist Gary Hoover as director of The Murphy Institute
November 19, 2020
Gary “Hoov” Hoover, a nationally renowned economist in the study of economic policy, has been appointed the new director of Tulane University’s Murphy Institute and full professor in economics.
Tulane researcher launches study on how infants learn about their bodies
November 19, 2020
Tulane psychology professor Jeffrey Lockman wins prestigious grant to study how infants learn about their bodies.
Public health a crucial component of social work research, new Tulane research leader says
November 16, 2020
Public health expert Susan Davies joins the Tulane School of Social Work as the new associate dean of research.