Tulane Law School will launch a program in space law that will leverage the university’s strength as a leader in maritime law to address related legal issues that are now emerging with the private exploration and exploitation of space. The program is made possible through a $1 million gift from Darleen Jacobs, Tulane Law alumna and founding partner of the Jacobs, Sarrat, Lovelace, Harris & Matthews firm.
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“TODAY” Show co-host Jenna Bush Hager will interview Groundskeeping author Lee Cole in a segment filmed at The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. The segment airs today in the fourth hour of the show. Read More
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The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University opens today, including two sessions in Dixon Hall on the uptown campus. At 5 p.m., Jenna Bush Hager will interview bestselling author John Grisham. At 6 p.m., Imani Perry, the Hughes Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, will discuss “Race and the American Soul” with moderator Eddie Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of Princeton’s Department of African American Studies. Attendance is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. For more information, click here.
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The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will host its spring 2022 Hathaway Lectureship on Friday, March 11, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Freeman Auditorium located in the Woldenberg Art Center. The lecture, titled “Coloring the Conservation Conversation” will be presented by J. Drew Lanham, Alumni Distinguished Professor, Provost’s Professor and Master Teacher of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University. Lanham is a cultural and conservation ornithologist whose work addresses the confluence of race, place and nature. Lanham is also the Poet Laureate of his home county in South Carolina and has written several poems, essays, books and a memoir, The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which has received numerous awards and recognition. Following the lecture, a catered reception will take place in Woodward Way, also located in the Woldenberg Art Center. For more information and to RSVP, click here.
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The Washington Examiner
John Barry, distinguished scholar at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, says of COVID-19, “I’m still cautious, but look at your local situation: If there’s very little community transmission, you can start to relax.”
Nola.com
Commenting on a climate science report by the United Nations, which indicates climate change poses an “existential threat” to south Louisiana, Jesse Keenan, associate professor of real estate at the School of Architecture, says that state and city leaders will have to make tough decisions on what to protect and what to disinvest in.
Foreign Policy
David Smilde, sociology professor at the School of Liberal Arts, writes an opinion piece on the United States’ potential oil deal with Venezuela.
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