Tulane Releases

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University announced new dates today for its 2021 festival. The three-day event will now take place in-person, Oct. 21-23, on Tulane’s uptown campus. The top priority of festival organizers is the health and safety of everyone in attendance, as well as the New Orleans community. The 2021 festival will adhere to city, state and national COVID-19 protocols.

Award-winning filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo will headline the School of Liberal Arts' second annual Bobby Yan Lectureship in Media and Social Change.

Tulane University will fund three new multidisciplinary Research Centers of Excellence focused on personalized medicine, sex differences in medicine and emerging infectious diseases — all distinct research challenges relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers at Tulane University, Harvard University, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have learned that obesity, advanced age and COVID-19 infection correlate with a propensity to breathe out more respiratory droplets — key spreaders of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean Thomas LaVeist authored a New York Times op/ed  signed by 59 other Black health experts from the National Academy of Medicine urging Black Americans to get vaccinated.Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean Thomas LaVeist authored a New York Times op/ed  signed by 59 other Black health experts from the National Academy of Medicine urging Black Americans to get vaccinated.

For the second consecutive year, Tulane University will remain test-optional for students applying this fall for a spot in Tulane’s 2022 entering class. Going “test-optional” means these students will not be required to submit test scores for the SAT or ACT as part of the Tulane admissions process.

A team of Tulane engineering students came in first place in a design competition aimed at helping veterans.

Tulane President Michael Fitts will host the third installment of the Presidential Speaker Series — Mindset: Breaking Barriers featuring Lisa Jackson and Col. Douglas G. Hurley this week via Zoom.