The Tulane Jewish studies department will host a lecture by Shari Rabin, assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston, titled “How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism,” on March 18 in the Jewish Studies Building Conference Room 103 on the Tulane University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

William Marko, managing director at an investment banking group based in Houston, and Ann Tenenbaum, a philanthropist in New York City focusing on the arts and education, have been elected to the Board of Tulane, the main governing body of Tulane University.

Applications to Tulane have increased more than 65 percent over the past five years, with 41,365 applications arriving this year. The university's selectivity rate, the number of students who apply versus the number of students who are accepted, also improved to just over 13 percent.

Tulane makes a major commitment to stop sexual violence on campus.

Starting this week, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business will hold its first classes in downtown New Orleans at the Stewart Center CBD, the school’s new home for executive education programs in the heart of the city’s growing Innovation Corridor in the Warehouse District.

Justin Lee Miller’s credits include the Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, On the Town, Kismet off-Broadway, Sweeney Todd at the New York Philharmonic, and Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Inspired by a co-worker who enjoys painting mermaids, Tulane photographer Sally Asher created The Mermaids of New Orleans, an underwater world where Mardi Gras floats really float.