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 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.
Cutting emergency response time wins big at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week
March 27, 2017
Alumnus Benjamin Swig has an idea that will cut emergency medical response time from nine minutes to five. For that idea, Swig and his co-founder Justin Dangel won The Big Idea competition Friday during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
With help from Tulane, Panama aims to become a completely bilingual country
March 21, 2017
The Panama Bilingüe program, a creation of the government of Panama in collaboration with Tulane University, is designed with a goal of making the Republic of Panama bilingual in Spanish and English within a single generation.
International flavor
March 20, 2017
The International Food and Music Festival gives Tulanians a reason to move their feet.
Jane says
March 17, 2017
Lucky guests meet with Jane Goodall before her sold out lecture on Thursday.
Want to get away? Travel the world without leaving campus
March 15, 2017
If you’re looking for weekend plans that involve food tastings from a variety of cultures, dance performances from around the world and music that carries an African beat, look no further than the International Food and Music Festival on the uptown campus of Tulane University.
No problem is too big for Tulane students to solve
March 15, 2017
Tulane is the newest member of the national Grand Challenge Scholars Program organized by the National Academy of Engineering to tackle 14 of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average
March 14, 2017
Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana’s wetlands, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes.
Famed conservationist Jane Goodall to appear at Tulane
March 08, 2017
World-renowned ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall will deliver a lecture on her life’s work Thursday, March 16, at Tulane.
Visual artist works to ‘document the undocumented’
March 07, 2017
Artist Julio Salgado discussed the intersections between sexuality, art, activism and journalism during a lecture Monday on the uptown campus.
Tulane graduate awarded prestigious Luce Scholarship
March 06, 2017
Annie Peyton, a 2011 graduate of Tulane University, won a prestigious Luce Scholarship for 2016-2017. Peyton, who graduated with scholarly honors from Tulane’s School of Architecture, is currently in Thailand where she is working with a small landscape architecture and urban design firm.
Vision quest: Tulane researchers use virtual reality to fight glaucoma
February 24, 2017
Using a virtual reality console, an interdisciplinary team of Tulane researchers is developing a portable test for diagnosing glaucoma.
Music Rising at Tulane offering summer workshops for teachers
February 23, 2017
Music Rising at Tulane invites K-12 educators to apply for summer teacher workshops on the role of civil rights in the development of New Orleans musical forms.
Tulane team wins NASA’s Big Idea Challenge for spacecraft design
February 17, 2017
Tulane University engineering students’ innovative idea for a flower-shaped, solar-powered space ferry won the top prize in NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge.