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David Flowerree

News Releases
Tulane alumni couple’s $2 million gift will target climate change, coastal issues via two professorships, symposia
March 4, 2021

Social worker burnout a real issue

COVID-19, Culture, World
Burnout among social workers a real issue amid pandemic, Tulane researchers say
March 4, 2021

Diego Rose

Health, News Releases, Research in Real Time
Study finds dietary guidelines around the world have vastly different carbon footprints
March 2, 2021

Tulane University Special Collections

News Releases
Tulane University jazz archive gets new name and expanded mission
March 1, 2021

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

New Orleans Book Festival, News Releases
Tulane University professor, bestselling author Walter Isaacson to virtually debut new book
February 26, 2021

Tony Hu

COVID-19, News Releases, Research in Real Time
Tulane develops test that can detect COVID-19 that nasal swabs miss
February 26, 2021

COVID-19, Science
Are you going to receive the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine soon?
February 25, 2021

Race expert Mary Pattillo will speak at Tulane.

Culture, Health, News Releases
Tulane to host virtual discussion on ‘Anti-Racism and Sociology’
February 25, 2021

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Tulane Libraries announce new agreement to broaden access to published research
February 24, 2021

Reimagining Public Safety in American Cities

Culture, Event, NOLA
Newcomb Art Museum, Taylor Center to host discussion on public safety
February 24, 2021

Tulane researchers studying racial injustice in monument design

Culture, Health, News Releases, NOLA, Science
Tulane study to examine role of racial injustice in design of memorials and monuments
February 24, 2021

Alex and Megan Hernandez

News Releases
Alumnus makes gift to support military students at Tulane
February 22, 2021

Drs. Talbayev and Bondar)

News Releases
W. M. Keck Foundation grant to Tulane could spark “breakthrough” optical, wireless technologies
February 19, 2021

Robin Wall Kimmerer to headline Tulane lecture.

Culture, Health, Science, World
Acclaimed plant ecologist to headline virtual lectureship
February 19, 2021

Chief Shaka Zulu

Culture, Event, Life@Tulane, NOLA
Tulane faculty, special guests give brief history on Black and Indigenous roots of Carnival, Mardi Gras Indians
February 18, 2021

Dr. Jacey Jones of Tulane School of Medicine

Health
Tips on being your own best health advocate
February 18, 2021

School of Social Work celebrates Trailblazers

Culture, Health, Trailblazers, World
Coming soon: Social Work Trailblazers artwork from New Orleans Artist Terrance Osborne
February 17, 2021

NOLA
Tulane alumni Douglas Hurley, Lisa Jackson discuss breaking barriers in Presidential Speaker Series
February 15, 2021

Darryl and Louellen’s Berger’s home

COVID-19, Culture, NOLA
Krewe of House Floats
February 12, 2021

Cecilia Aldarondo to headline Tulane lectureship

Culture, News Releases, Trailblazers, World
Award-winning documentary producer Cecilia Aldarondo to headline Tulane lectureship
February 12, 2021

The 2021 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will now take place in-person, Oct. 21-23, on Tulane’s uptown campus.

New Orleans Book Festival, News Releases
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University moves to Oct. 21-23
February 12, 2021

Sydney Labat and Rachel Turner of Tulane School of Medicine

Health, Science
Students from ‘15 White Coats’ reflect on becoming Black doctors
February 11, 2021

House float at No. 2 Audubon Place

Culture, NOLA
Yardi Gras comes to Tulane, with a little help from friends
February 11, 2021

Dr. Giovanni Piedimonte, vice president for Research

News Releases
Tulane launches multidisciplinary Centers of Excellence aimed at complex research challenges
February 10, 2021

Chad Roy

COVID-19, News Releases, Research in Real Time
Researchers unravel what makes someone a COVID-19 super-spreader
February 9, 2021

Dean Thomas LaVeist

COVID-19, News Releases
Dean LaVeist, Black health experts call for Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19
February 8, 2021

Mardi Gras for All Yall graphic

Culture
Tulanians show Carnival spirit in “Mardi Gras for All Y’all”
February 8, 2021

Tulane University will remain test-optional for students applying this fall for a spot in Tulane’s 2022 entering class. (Photo courtesy of Shutterstock)

COVID-19, News Releases
Tulane University will remain test-optional for 2021-22 applicants
February 8, 2021

Mardi Gras COVID-19 restrictions in New Orleans

COVID-19
City of New Orleans issues restrictions ahead of Mardi Gras
February 5, 2021

Tulane engineering students win first place in design competition

Health, New Orleans Book Festival, Science, World
Tulane engineering students place first in design competition
February 5, 2021

Presidential Speaker Series features Lisa Jackson and Douglas Hurley

Culture, News Releases, Science, World
Tulane President Michael Fitts to host virtual conversation with Lisa Jackson and Douglas Hurley
February 5, 2021

Tulane Microbiology Professor Robert Garry, PhD

COVID-19
Virus hunter: 'We have to double down' to fight COVID-19 variants
February 4, 2021

Jay Kolls, MD, a professor of medicine and pediatrics

COVID-19, Research in Real Time
Effort to prevent, treat COVID-19 gets a boost
February 4, 2021

Transcommunality

Culture, Event, NOLA
Newcomb Art Museum announces spring lineup of programs
February 4, 2021

Dr. Ronald Blanton, chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine

COVID-19
Everything you wanted to know about the COVID-19 vaccines
February 4, 2021

Engy Ziedan, assistant professor of economics

COVID-19
The economics of a pandemic
February 3, 2021

Board of Tulane member Richard Yulman (right) and his daughter, Katy Yulman-Williamson (NC ’05), have announced a $5 million matching-challenge gift to increase scholarships at Tulane. (Photo courtesy of the Yulman Family)

News Releases
Yulman family makes $5 million matching-challenge gift to expand scholarships at Tulane
February 3, 2021

Albert Moten of Tulane School of Public Health during the Compass Study

COVID-19
COMPASS study seeks to measure community spread of COVID-19 in general population
February 3, 2021

Lab worker with research tray at Tulane National Primate Research Center

COVID-19, News Releases, Research in Real Time
Tulane University to lead national research partnership to speed up COVID-19 vaccines and drug discoveries
February 3, 2021

Students walking on McAlister Drive on the uptown campus

Life@Tulane, NOLA
Return to Campus Spring 2021
February 2, 2021

Tulane Dining makes Second Harvest donations

Tulane Dining donates $8,000 in food to Second Harvest
February 1, 2021

Tulane architecture students work to protect City Park tree

Culture, Health, NOLA, Science
Tulane architecture students, faculty work to protect iconic tree
January 27, 2021

Tulane alumnus Richard M. Lerner

Health, Science
Tulane to create its eighth Presidential Chair with $5 million gift from alumnus
January 26, 2021

Tulane University received a record 45,000 applications for the Class of 2025, and a record number of those students (4,000) indicated Tulane is their first choice by participating in its Early Decision admissions program. (Photo by Sally Asher)

News Releases
Amid pandemic, Tulane shatters records for total applications, Early Decision applicants
January 26, 2021

Gary “Hoov” Hoover, the new director of Tulane University’s Murphy Institute and professor of economics, will host the first SLA Dean’s Speaker Series on the topic of “Anti-Racism and the Economics Profession.”

News Releases
Tulane University to host virtual discussion on ‘Anti-Racism and Economics’
January 26, 2021

Marion Young receives COVID-19 vaccine.

COVID-19, Culture, Health, News Releases, Science, World
Tulane School of Social Work to offer virtual panel on COVID-19 and marginalized populations
January 25, 2021

Nick Pashos and Lisa Morici

News Releases, Research in Real Time
BioAesthetics and Tulane awarded grant to develop new advanced wound-care graft
January 25, 2021

College students in class

News Releases
Cowen Institute receives Kresge Foundation grant to support mental health of college students
January 22, 2021

Tulane SoPA’s Michael Wallace is a co-founder of Pracademic Affairs, a new journal that will catalog the experiences of practitioners in the fields of emergency management and homeland security/defense, for use in higher education. (Photo by Sally Asher)

News Releases
Tulane SoPA faculty collaborates with Naval Postgraduate School to establish Pracademic Affairs journal
January 21, 2021

Andrea Boyles to serve on U.N. panel

Culture, Health, News Releases, World
Tulane race scholar to provide expertise to U.N. panel
January 21, 2021