The Newcomb Art Museum invites all to join them this summer as they officially reopen to the public with the exhibition Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality, on view through October 2, 2021.

Jesse Toohey, who graduates in May with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, assisted in the reassessment of the school’s Fabrication Labs to accommodate student work and new projects during the pandemic. Toohey also helped create a virtual, interactive exhibition space to display graduating students’ thesis projects in 2020.

Suzana Savkovic, Tulane associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and a team of researchers were recently awarded a five-year, $1.6 million National Cancer Institute grant to investigate the connection between obesity and enhanced risk for colon cancer. 

A new study co-authored by researchers at Tulane National Primate Research Center found that a vaccine currently being developed induces a robust and long-lasting immune response against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in nonhuman primates similar to the protection provided by the Moderna vaccine.

The Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, A Studio in the Woods and the ByWater Institute at Tulane invite all to attend a virtual version of their interdisciplinary program Uncommon Exchanges at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday, April 21, via Zoom.

The Tulane ByWater Institute welcomes Sacoby Wilson on Wednesday, April 14, at 5 p.m. via Zoom for a conversation about health disparities and COVID-19 moderated by Thomas LaVeist, dean of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.