The Tulane Green Wave football team defeated the University of Southern Mississippi in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, 30-13, on Saturday, Jan. 4. This is the first time Tulane has won bowl games in back-to-back seasons.
A dozen Tulane students worked with the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design to design and build a play space for children at Hotel Hope, a shelter that provides temporary housing for women and children in Central City, New Orleans.
The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane will bring back its summer production of Hamlet for the annual Performance for the Schools. Each January a full-length production of one of Shakespeare’s plays is performed at Tulane as a field trip opportunity for middle and high school students. A special performance for the public will take place on Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Dixon Hall. General admission tickets are $25. Tickets for teachers, senior citizens and Tulane employees are $20. Tickets for students are $15. For more information, click here.
Drugs.com Mengyu Fan of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane was among researchers who analyzed data from more than 300,000 participants for a study that found a healthy sleep pattern can help cardiovascular health.
Nola.com Tulane medical students who took a viral photo at a Louisiana plantation credit Bennetta Horne, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Tulane School of Medicine, for encouraging them throughout their educational careers.
Indy Star Keith Clay, professor and chair in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane, discusses the findings of Gulf Coast ticks in Indiana.
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