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Tulane bands together to assist COVID-19 student move-out

Students finished their last in-person classes on Friday, March 13, and began packing up and moving their belongings the next day. In a coordinated effort, several campus partners are assisting students as they prepare to move out of their residence halls by March 22.

President Mike Fitts addresses Tulane community on COVID-19 in video

In a video message, Tulane President Mike Fitts reassures students, faculty and staff that the university is on the front lines of responding to COVID-19 and in keeping the community safe as it transitions to a new normal.

Destination Antarctica: Research takes Tulane professor to Florida-sized glacier

Brent Goehring, Tulane geologist, spends part of the year studying how the Thwaites Glacier, a massive glacier that melts at nearly twice the rate it did in the mid-1990s, may be contributing to global sea-level rise.

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David Mushatt, MD, of the School of Medicine, says wearing a face mask when a person is well is a false sense of security and it’s better to practice social distancing and washing hands frequently to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

MedIndia
Tonya Hansel and Maurya Glaude, licensed clinicians and researchers at the School of Social Work, give suggestions to prevent social distancing from negatively affecting a person’s mental health.

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Doug Harris, Tulane economist, suggests the federal government fund the hiring of a third of American teachers to provide summer school for six weeks to make up for the amount of school students will miss as a result of closures from COVID-19.

Nola.com
Mac Hyman, professor of mathematics at Tulane, and Susan Hassig, epidemiology professor at Tulane, discuss how community spread of COVID-19 is already happening and how difficult it is to trace.

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Tulane bands together to assist COVID-19 student move-out

President Mike Fitts addresses Tulane community on COVID-19 in video

Destination Antarctica: Research takes Tulane professor to Florida-sized glacier Brent Goehring, Tulane geologist, spends part of the year studying how the Thwaites Glacier, a massive glacier that melts at nearly twice the rate it did in the mid-1990s, may be contributing to global sea-level rise.

Destination Antarctica: Research takes Tulane professor to Florida-sized glacier

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Destination Antarctica: Research takes Tulane professor to Florida-sized glacier

Brent Goehring, Tulane geologist, spends part of the year studying how the Thwaites Glacier, a massive glacier that melts at nearly twice the rate it did in the mid-1990s, may be contributing to global sea-level rise.