Newcomb-Tulane College has appointed Laurie Earls, Adam McKeown and Christopher Oliver as Duren Professors for 2018-19. The trio was selected on the basis of their commitment to undergraduate teaching and their innovative proposals. 

A team of archaeologists co-led by Tulane University professor Marcello A. Canuto has discovered a nearly 1,500-year old carved altar.

Tulane political science professor Mirya Holman was recently awarded the Clarence Stone Scholar Award by the urban politics section of the American Political Science Association, a leading international association of political scientists. 

Tulane University’s Latin American Library (LAL) has acquired the personal papers of William Spratling, renowned artist, designer, author, entrepreneur and 1920s Tulane architecture professor.  This collection contains original personal and business correspondence, photographs and design drawings from the peak years of Spratling’s artistic and commercial production starting in the 1920s until his death in 1967.

Dr. Lesley Ann Saketkoo, an associate professor of clinical medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, has been named Doctor of the Year by the Scleroderma Foundation.

Get ready to grab your best blue running or dancing shoes and mark your calendars. Tulane Cancer Center’s fifth annual NOLA Bluedoo — a two-mile race, outdoor party and fundraiser for prostate cancer research— is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, on Tulane’s uptown campus.

A Tulane professor has been awarded a $1.65 million grant for research that could shed light on the molecular details of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.