Students train for perfect storm
May 24, 2017
Graduate students from Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy were tasked with working through Category 4 hurricane conditions coupled with a military uprising.
MFA candidate glides from Broadway stage to classroom
May 18, 2017
Broadway veteran Justin Lee Miller will graduate at the 2017 Tulane University Unified Commencement ceremony.
Tulane School of Science and Engineering dean to step down
May 11, 2017
After 17 years as dean, Nick Altiero is leaving his post. He looks back with pride at a record of accomplishment and forward to a bright future for the school.
Tulane professor meets Helen Mirren, Judi Dench on home turf
May 05, 2017
Michael Kuczynski, professor and chair of the English department in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts, met the 2017 Tulane University Commencement speaker and her fellow Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench while visiting Stratford-upon-Avon in April 2016.
2017 grad applies math to track Ebola outbreak
April 28, 2017
Jessica Conrad, who will graduate from the Tulane schools of Science and Engineering and Public Health and Tropical Medicine in May, co-authored a textbook chapter on behavioral changes in an epidemic.
In Cape Town, Tulane center works to improve the lives of at-risk children
April 20, 2017
As director of the Highly Vulnerable Children’s Research Center at the Tulane School of Social Work, Tonya R. Thurman and her team conduct rigorous studies that they hope will lead to a better quality of life for struggling children worldwide, especially children affected by HIV and AIDS.
Howard F. Marx: Father of GPS
April 19, 2017
Engineering alumnus Howard F. Marx’s lifelong interest in aircraft and aeronautic navigation and design led him to envision an early version of GPS. He learned to fly planes while a Tulane student.
Genetic study finds 'perfect storm' behind deadliest Ebola outbreak
April 12, 2017
A combination of densely populated cities and porous borders between neighboring countries helped ignite the historically deadly West African Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,200 people, according to a comprehensive genetic study of the virus published in Nature.
Former Tulane medical student Peter Gold isn’t done being a hero
April 11, 2017
Dr. Peter Gold, the Tulane medical student who captured the world’s attention when he was shot rescuing a stranger, has launched Strong City, a foundation to help end cycles of violence.
A new look, a new direction: Tulane introduces the School of Professional Advancement
April 06, 2017
Tulane University has formally relaunched the School of Continuing Studies as the School of Professional Advancement. The school is one of six at Tulane that offer both undergraduate and graduate programs.
Students meet alumnus, Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís
March 31, 2017
Students share quality time with Costa Rican President and Tulane alumnus Luis Guillermo Solís.
Writers strive to understand systemic racism
March 30, 2017
Presented by Tulane University and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a writers’ panel will discuss the national issue of systemic racism on Tuesday, April 4, in Freeman Auditorium.
Amped Up
March 29, 2017
Computer scientists are in the thick of the hot field of artificial intelligence. They touch lives in all kinds of ways from programming ethics into self-driving cars to interpreting how the brain reads sounds.
Amped up for artificial intelligence
March 29, 2017
Computer scientists are in the thick of the hot field of artificial intelligence. They touch lives in all kinds of ways from programming ethics into self-driving cars to interpreting how the brain reads sounds.