Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, business leader and philanthropist, will lead an award-winning group of authors, children’s authors, local chefs and musicians who will take part in the 2023 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane.
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Judge Karen Wells Roby, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Michelle Wimes, chief equity and inclusion officer at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, and Christopher James, racial justice and well-being associate at the Burns Institute, are the recipients of the inaugural Black Law Alumni Awards, which were presented over the weekend. Read more on the Tulane Law website.
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Mariam Taqaddusi, who fled Afghanistan, and Islam Ahmed, who fled Egypt, are part of the Tulane Global Visiting Scholars Program, which was established to broaden and deepen global perspectives at Tulane while supporting scholars who face significant risk to their lives and well-being. Read more on the Tulane News website.
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Campus Recreation and Campus Health will host an embodied Afrobeat experience on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Brown Field. Afrobeat is a genre that combines West African music with American funk and soul. The event will feature music mixed by DJ Chill, and movements will be facilitated by Jinaki Flint, assistant director for outreach and prevention at the Tulane Counseling Center. The event’s focus is to relieve stress through movement, breath and mindfulness. Visit the event Wavesync page for more information.
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NBC News
Dr. Shauna Levy, assistant professor of surgery and director of bariatric surgery and medical weight loss at the Tulane Bariatric Center, says that weight-loss medications that have recently grown in popularity “are the best we’ve ever seen,” but many patients can’t access them due to lack of insurance coverage.
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Chicago Tribune
Robin Bartram, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the School of Liberal Arts, writes an op-ed about the need for Illinois to offer home repair programs to assist homeowners.
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Nola.com
Samantha Francois, executive director of the Violence Prevention Institute at Tulane, Julia Fleckman, associate director of the institute, and Andrea Boyles, sociology professor at the School of Liberal Arts, discuss the increased gun violence in New Orleans and how it affects young Black men.
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