Homecoming crowd hears tales of curiosity and discovery from Walter Isaacson
October 22, 2022
As part of Tulane Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend, Tulane President Michael A. Fitts led a lively conversation with best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson, the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane and co-chair of the New Orleans Book Festival.
Nationally ranked Green Wave savors big Homecoming win
October 22, 2022
The nationally ranked Tulane Green Wave football team celebrated a 38-28 win over the University of Memphis Tigers on Saturday, during Tulane's Wave Weekend, which included Homecoming.
Lighting of McAlister ushers in Homecoming weekend
October 21, 2022
The annual Lighting of McAlister Auditorium, a kickoff event for Tulane’s Homecoming week, was held on Monday, Oct. 17.
Sukkah built in Pocket Park is an annual tradition
October 19, 2022
A team of volunteers, led by Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) students Seth Laskin and Ethan Lewis, designed and constructed this year's Sukkah, an outdoor pavilion for dining and living, in Pocket Park outside of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. Now in its 14th year, the partnership between TuSA and Tulane Hillel provides funding for the Sukkah to be built for the eight-day Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot, which began October 9th this year.
Best defense
October 17, 2022
In the first-floor gallery of the Tidewater building on the downtown campus, Michael Moolekamp (left), a volunteer paramedic with Tulane Emergency Medical Services, administers a flu shot in the arm of Akhil Chandran, a first-year graduate student in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The flu shot clinic, sponsored by Campus Health, is part of a month-long campaign to administer no-cost flu shots to students. Six additional flu clinic dates will be scheduled and students can learn more by visiting the Campus Health flu prevention webpage.
The heart of music: TIDES songwriting class reveals creative possibilities
October 14, 2022
What is it about the interplay of music, rhythm and words that creates a compelling song that draws in the listener? Mark Carson, adjunct lecturer, has been writing songs and playing music professionally for 30 years and has used his vast experience to teach students, every fall since 2008, in the Tulane Interdisciplinary Experience Seminar (TIDES) course Songwriting for an Audience.
Quiet beauty
October 10, 2022
The Native Garden on the Academic Quad is one of the many beautiful gardens on campus. The garden is designed as a natural stormwater runoff system to capture and slowly release rainwater into a standard drainage system. (Photo by Rusty Costanza)
Tulane School of Professional Advancement honors late US Congressman John Lewis with name dedication
October 03, 2022
Tulane's School of Professional Advancement named its Public Administration Program after late U.S. Congressman John Lewis in a dedication ceremony on Oct. 4.
Architecture professor receives National Academies of Science grant for new studio design course
September 30, 2022
Professor Margarita Jover of the School of Architecture received a grant of over $250,000 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program to pilot a new interdisciplinary design studio investigating challenges along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Listen up
September 27, 2022
James May, adjunct professor in the Newcomb Department of Music, adjusts a shotgun mic during a Creative Soundscape class at Audubon Park on Monday afternoon
Seeing blue
September 23, 2022
A flowering plumbago plant greets passersby in the early morning outside Cudd Hall. Also known as leadwort, plumbago is native to mild climates worldwide and comes in a variety of colors including white, blue, purple, red and pink.
9/11 Memorial Stair Climb by TUPD
September 23, 2022
On Sept. 11, at 5:30 a.m., 16 members of the Tulane University Police Department (TUPD) gathered at the Diboll Parking Garage to participate in the 2nd Annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
Surround sound
September 22, 2022
In the bustling lobby of the Dixon Performing Arts Center, second-year graduate student Sarah Campbell focuses on a reading for her Music, Religion & Spirit class. Campbell, originally from Massachusetts, is majoring in opera.
Posse Scholars flourish with a little help from their friends
September 21, 2022
The Posse Program, administered by the Newcomb-Tulane College Center for Academic Equity, awards undergraduate students with extraordinary academic potential but it not simply a scholarship program. The program provides a community of young scholars who form their own “posse” and support each other through their academic journeys.
Reflective moment
September 16, 2022
Second year student Zoe Harrison of Marin County, California, contemplates her work as trees along the Berger Family Lawn are reflected on the side of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. Harrison was taking advantage of the quiet of the James Lounge inside the LBC.