Tulane Releases

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University and New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) will take place during the same week this spring, creating an even bigger draw for those looking to celebrate culture, innovation, big ideas, and books. The partnership begins with NOEW’s kickoff on Monday, March 11 and with Book Fest’s kickoff on Thursday evening, March 14, 2024. Thursday, March 14, will serve as a “crossover day,” with featured programming by both events.

When Tulane University first launched the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history— Only the Audacious, the campaign for an ever bolder Tulane — the goal was to redefine what is possible for Tulane's future. Now the momentum shows no sign of slowing as President Michael A. Fitts announced today that the campaign will continue as Always the Audacious.

Longtime Tulane supporters Don and Lora Peters have increased their recent commitment to Tulane Athletics to over $10 million, which will serve as a lead gift for “Investing in Excellence,” a major capital campaign to upgrade facilities and infrastructure across the university’s athletic programs.

Social media marketers sharing photos of people vacationing in exotic locales or attending events at exclusive venues may actually be driving new customers away, according to a recently published Tulane University study.

Tulane University has received the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
 

Tulane epidemiologist and professor Dr. Jiang He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine — one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine — for leading hypertension research that has helped transform cardiovascular disease prevention efforts across the globe. 

Researchers at Tulane University have shown for the first time that mothers are much less likely to transmit a common virus known to cause miscarriages and birth defects if they are exposed to the virus prior to becoming pregnant. The study marks a significant step toward the development of a vaccine that could protect mothers and their babies.