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Living in a food desert doubles stroke risk for patients with atrial fibrillation

Patients with atrial fibrillation who live in neighborhoods with poor access to full-service grocery stores face sharply higher odds of stroke and…

People
Tulane alum uses energy innovation to drive local economic development

Alumnus Cameron Poole recently moved from energy and innovation manager at GNO, Inc. to a new role as director of strategy at Newlab New Orleans, a…

Make Way
Tulane takes leading role in $10 million global archaeology mapping initiative

Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute is taking a leading role in a global initiative to transform how archaeologists uncover…

News Releases
Global map shows where ocean plastics pose greatest threats

Tulane University scientists published the first global assessment of ecological risks from ocean plastics, showing that the greatest dangers are not…

News Releases
Two decades after Katrina, Tulane architecture programs continue rebuilding New Orleans

URBANbuild and Small Center for Collaborative Design commemorate 20 years and more than 150 projects since the programs launched after Hurricane…

Research in Real Time
Extreme heat linked to spike in domestic violence calls in New Orleans, study finds

Researchers at Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute found that periods of prolonged extreme heat in New Orleans coincided with a measurable rise in…

NOLA
Tulane reflects on Katrina: 20 years of renewal and resilience

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures that forced Tulane University to shut down and scatter its community across the country,…

Research in Real Time
Tulane grad helps keep the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and its story, alive

With the help of a recent Tulane graduate, a nonprofit has placed the Grand Isle’s nearly century-old Oleander Hotel on the National Register of…

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Study: Post-Katrina philanthropy reshaped New Orleans nonprofit sector

The unprecedented wave of philanthropy that followed Hurricane Katrina not only fueled New Orleans’ immediate recovery but also transformed the city’…