Students from ‘15 White Coats’ reflect on becoming Black doctors
February 11, 2021
Sydney Labat and Rachel Turner, third-year students at Tulane School of Medicine, have been driving a conversation about the need for more Black physicians, encouraging schoolchildren to explore medicine as a career, and supporting underrepresented populations in medical school, as part of a nonprofit organization called The 15 White Coats LLC.
Tulane engineering students place first in design competition
February 05, 2021
A team of Tulane engineering students came in first place in a design competition aimed at helping veterans.
Tulane President Michael Fitts to host virtual conversation with Lisa Jackson and Douglas Hurley
February 05, 2021
Tulane President Michael Fitts will host the third installment of the Presidential Speaker Series — Mindset: Breaking Barriers featuring Lisa Jackson and Col. Douglas G. Hurley this week via Zoom.
Tulane architecture students, faculty work to protect iconic tree
January 27, 2021
The Tulane School of Architecture launched a design competition to help protect the iconic Singing Tree at City Park.
Tulane to create its eighth Presidential Chair with $5 million gift from alumnus
January 26, 2021
A $5 million gift from Tulane alumnus Richard M. Lerner will create the university’s eighth Presidential Chair, named for Lerner’s late father, Lawrence (left), a real-estate developer and bank director.
Tulane School of Social Work to offer virtual panel on COVID-19 and marginalized populations
January 25, 2021
Tulane School of Social Work panel to discuss how underserved communities can be part of the COVID-19 vaccine conversation.
Tulane scientist honored for research on reproductive health
January 11, 2021
Kristin S. Miller, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Tulane, has won an Early Career Award for research on the female reproductive system.
What to expect when the first COVID-19 vaccine arrives
December 11, 2020
Health economist Charles Stoecker, an expert in vaccine policy with Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, spoke with Tulane’s On Good Authority podcast about the game-changing impact the first vaccines will have in the United States.
Tulane joins national program to improve graduate student diversity in earth sciences
December 10, 2020
Tulane accepted into a national program designed to improve diversity in the earth sciences.
Tulane researcher shows enhanced therapeutic stem cell migration improves neurodegenerative disease
December 04, 2020
Jean-Pyo Lee, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Research Institute and the University of California San Diego, has shown for the first time that injection of a synthetic agonist, or drug, that attracts stem cell migration can improve neurological outcome in a mouse model of neurodegenerative disease.
Tulane professor’s book on Hurricane Katrina wins prestigious honor
December 04, 2020
Andy Horowitz's book on Hurricane Katrina wins Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Rewriting the future by addressing climate change
December 03, 2020
There is no aspect of our lives that climate change doesn’t affect, said Jesse Keenan, associate professor and social scientist at Tulane University School of Architecture.
Tulane researcher launches study on how infants learn about their bodies
November 19, 2020
Tulane psychology professor Jeffrey Lockman wins prestigious grant to study how infants learn about their bodies.
Public health a crucial component of social work research, new Tulane research leader says
November 16, 2020
Public health expert Susan Davies joins the Tulane School of Social Work as the new associate dean of research.