Tulane Releases

While HIV infection is now largely manageable with the help of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the virus persists in hard-to-reach reservoirs of the body, requiring those infected to remain on ART for life.

Five Tulane University students will receive a total of $100,000 for their work in promoting racial equity, justice or diversity initiatives as the first recipients of the newly established Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Scholarship. The scholarship is part of Tulane’s A Plan for Now which seeks to support specific actions and programs that will have an immediate and positive impact on Tulane becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive academic community. 

Gary “Hoov” Hoover, a nationally renowned economist in the study of economic policy, has been appointed the new director of Tulane University’s Murphy Institute and full professor in economics.

Tulane psychology professor Jeffrey Lockman wins prestigious grant to study how infants learn about their bodies.

On a typical pre-pandemic day on Tulane Avenue, various food trucks stacked the curbs on both sides of the street and provided much needed and very convenient meals to employees, students, faculty and staff from nearby buildings. When the novel coronavirus pandemic reared its ugly head in New Orleans early last March, the local food industry was brought to its knees, and overnight, Tulane Avenue became a food desert.

Adults with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42% lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk factors compared to adults with unhealthy sleep patterns, according to new Tulane University study published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. 

Public health expert Susan Davies joins the Tulane School of Social Work as the new associate dean of research.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $8.7 million grant to Tulane University to study whether churches can play a significant role in helping to eliminate cardiovascular health disparities among African Americans.