Tuesday, February 01, 2022
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The Spirit of Tulane Award recognizes individuals whose work during the COVID-19 pandemic embodies Tulane’s motto: Non sibi, sed suis (Not for one’s self, but for one’s own). Mia Bagneris, an art historian of the African Diaspora at the School of Liberal Arts, Dr. Gregory Bix, a physician-scientist at the School of Medicine, and Monica Vaccari, an immunologist at the School of Medicine and the Tulane National Primate Research Center, were selected by President Michael A. Fitts for the award.
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Serena Chaudhry (left), clinical director of Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic, Spencer Steadman (center), fourth-year School of Medicine student, Ashley Weiss (right), director of medical student education in psychiatry, and Hannah Samberg (not pictured), third-year School of Medicine student, co-authored a study that examines how patients experiencing first episodes of psychosis sought medical care in the New Orleans community. Read More
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The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and A Studio in the Woods will host a panel discussion titled AfroFutures on Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. The panel will feature writers who live in the Gulf South region and who are working in the AfroFuturist literary genre. The panel will address the concept of AfroFuturism in literary, socio-political, biological and environmental contexts within the Gulf South region. Panelists include Desiree Evans (top left) and Ladee Hubbard (top right), Maurice Ruffin (bottom left), and Alex Jennings (bottom center). The panel will be moderated by Z'étoile Imma (bottom right), associate professor in the Department of English at the School of Liberal Arts. For more information, click here. To register, click here.
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The New York Times
John Barry, distinguished scholar at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, writes an opinion piece on how the indifference and weariness shown by citizens and public health officials during the 1918 influenza pandemic would be a dangerous mistake to repeat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marketplace
Jesse Keenan, associate professor of real estate at the School of Architecture, says of people who are moving due to climate change, “There is a cohort of Americans who have the means, the resources, and they have the elective mobility to be on the move.” Keenan identified Duluth, Minnesota, as a place people could feel safer from the impacts of climate change.
Inside Higher Ed
Ilana Horwitz, assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies and Fields-Rayant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life at the School of Liberal Arts, discusses her book God, Grades & Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success in a Q&A.
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