Tulane University receives award to demonstrate electric shuttle buses for New Orleans region
April 01, 2021
A Tulane University initiative to use shuttle buses powered by electricity has been awarded $737,500 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The project is one of 55 selected research and demonstration projects that will further new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies with assistance from the EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office.
Tulane to host Anti-Racism and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Teach-In for faculty, staff
March 30, 2021
The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will host an Anti-Racism and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Teach-In for featuring addresses by anti-racist leaders Rhonda Broussard & Ibram X. Kendi.
Tulane SoPA student Patience Frederick overcoming great odds to fulfill career path
March 29, 2021
Patience Frederick typifies the graduate students in the Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) who take online or in-person courses while maintaining jobs along their career paths. But what separates Frederick is that she holds down one full-time and one part-time job and is taking a pair of online courses while also helping her community recover from not one but two natural disasters.
Tulane study looks at effectiveness of telehealth therapy during pandemic
March 26, 2021
A Tulane study looks at the effectiveness of telehealth therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Duke scholar to speak as part of Tulane anti-racism series
March 25, 2021
The Dean's Speaker Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines continues March 30 with a talk by Lee D. Baker, a cultural anthropologist at Duke University.
Walking tours provide students with deeper perspective on city’s architecture, history
March 24, 2021
Richard Campanella, associate dean for research and professor at the School of Architecture, leads students on free walking tours throughout certain areas of the city, giving an in-depth and up-close look at the city’s urban geography, architecture, history and culture along the way. The tours are outside and socially distanced, with all attendees required to wear a mask. The tours are limited to 12 students at a time.
From the front line to the classroom: Tulane professor brings extensive, firsthand experience to SoPA students
March 18, 2021
Many have worked remotely this year, but few as far from home as Robert Allen, who teaches in the Tulane School of Professional Advancement’s (SoPA) Emergency and Security Studies Program. A United States Marine veteran and a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard, Allen is currently deployed in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq as a member of the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Louisiana Army National Guard. He serves as the public affairs officer, spokesperson and civil affairs officer.
Doctors should address reduced sense of taste and smell in cancer patients, Tulane study says
March 16, 2021
Tulane study looks at reduced sense of taste and smell in prostate cancer patients.
Tulane economist wins NSF award to study discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and marginalized communities
March 10, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $400,000 grant to Tulane University economist Patrick Button to study discrimination in access to mental health care for LGBTQ+ people and marginalized communities and whether the problem has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Tulane researchers part of team studying volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands
March 08, 2021
Tulane scientists are part of an international team of researchers studying the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands.
Tulane SoPA’s Digital Design students take home 36 ADDY Awards
March 08, 2021
Tulane University School of Professional Advancement’s (SoPA) Digital Design students received 36 awards in recognition of their design work. The award-winning group earned a combination of gold, silver and bronze ADDY Awards and Best of Show Awards in three categories. Twenty-two of the 36 entries will advance to the district competition.
Tulane alumni couple’s $2 million gift will target climate change, coastal issues via two professorships, symposia
March 04, 2021
Haunted by memories of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, an alumni couple with deep ties to Tulane and New Orleans has made a $2 million gift to the university that aims to pack a one-two punch against climate change and coastal erosion. David and Jane Flowerree have established two professorships aimed at finding solutions to the environmental crisis facing Louisiana and other areas threatened by rising seas, warming temperatures, and weather-driven disasters.
Study finds dietary guidelines around the world have vastly different carbon footprints
March 02, 2021
If people across the globe were to follow their country’s recommendations for a healthy diet, the impact of their food choices on greenhouse gas emissions would vary greatly depending on where they live, according to a new study in the Nutrition Journal.
Tulane University jazz archive gets new name and expanded mission
March 01, 2021
Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) is pleased to announce an expanded mission and new name for its famed music archive. Previously known as the Hogan Jazz Archive, the reconceived Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz will expand the scope of its collections, including acquisitions that document late 20th century and 21st-century contemporary jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, hip hop and rock musicians in New Orleans and the surrounding region, as well as the industry and culture that fosters and supports those artists.