Chris Cox amassed numerous titles, zip codes and even bylines during his 23 years of service in the United States Marine Corps, but an assignment to New Orleans late in his career proved to be too much for the master sergeant to overcome when it was time to leave.

In two recent webinars, President Michael Fitts provided the university community with updates on the resumption of normal operations at Tulane following Hurricane Ida.

A husband and wife team who first met as Tulane undergraduates on the way to becoming doctors is donating $5 million to create the university’s ninth Presidential Chair, which will be based at the School of Medicine.A husband and wife team who first met as Tulane undergraduates on the way to becoming doctors is donating $5 million to create the university’s ninth Presidential Chair, which will be based at the School of Medicine.

Applying to college can be stressful for students and their families, particularly for those who are first in their families to go to college. Tulane’s new Louisiana Center for College Access (LCCA), which opened virtually in February, offers free ACT and SAT prep courses and college readiness workshops to Louisiana students. The center will expand to in-person seminars, beginning Saturday, August 7, with “Applying 101: You’re the Dean.”

Jesse M. Keenan, an associate professor of real estate in the Tulane School of Architecture is co-editor of the new book COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience (Springer, 2021), which features 22 chapters were written by experts from around the world who have assisted their home countries in managing the COVID-19 crisis.

Jana Lipman, history professor at the Tulane School of Liberal Arts, and Mira Kohl, PhD candidate in the Department of History, each received honors from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for their published work on U.S. foreign relations.