Tulane physics professor Wayne Reed developed a technology to make the production of polymers — used to create plastics and other common products — greener and more efficient. Recently, Japanese industrial giant Yokogawa Electric bought the company that licensed and commercialized Reed’s innovation, Fluence Analytics. (Pictured from left, company CEO Jay Manouchehri and President Alex Reed).
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Alumna Ali Vitali, Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, has reported on countless stories that impact the nation and covered the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Chronicling her time on the campaign trail, Vitali authored her first book, Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House. . .Yet [HarperCollins, 2022]. Read more about Vitali in the latest issue of Tulanian Magazine.
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The Louis Prima collection, housed in Tulane University Special Collections, is now accessible to researchers. The collection includes personal and business papers, correspondence, sheet music, photographs, publicity materials and audiovisual materials related to Prima (left), the legendary New Orleans-born singer, songwriter, bandleader and trumpeter. Read more on the Tulane Libraries website.
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Tulane’s annual women’s leadership conference, Women Making Waves, highlights the accomplishments of alumnae, while inspiring others to rise to leadership positions. The conference will take place Thursday, March 30, from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. in the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. The event will feature panel discussions, networking opportunities and a keynote speaker, Michal Shapira, head of Marketing Solutions and Brand Studios at Warner Bros. Discovery. Visit the Tulane Alumni website for more information and to register.
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Tulane University Libraries’ (TUL) Scholarly Engagement team and the Newcomb Archive & Vorhoff Collection staff will host a trivia and lunch event on Thursday, March 30, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Participants will answer questions about significant Louisiana figures. Prizes include books, headphones and “swag.” The event will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the Diboll Gallery, on the third floor of the Malkin Sacks Commons. Visit the TUL website for more information and to register.
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School of Liberal Arts Dean Brian Edwards will host an Anti-Racism and the Disciplines Symposium on Friday, March 31, as a formal close to the 2021-2022 Dean’s Speaker Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines. The symposium will include scholars who participated in the series and a keynote discussion by Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University, American literary critic and Black Feminist scholar. Spillers will present on “Anti-Racism and Literary Studies.” The symposium will take place from 1 to 6 p.m. in Rogers Memorial Chapel. A reception will follow. Visit the Wavesync event page for more information.
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New York Times
“The hard thing is, when you talk to people about why they carry guns in cars, it’s about safety and protection. And when you talk about lockboxes, the rebuttal is, ‘Well, I don’t have quick access to my gun,’” said Julia Fleckman, co-director of Tulane’s Violence Prevention Institute, which has given away lockboxes with biometric fingerprint locks for gun safety.
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Stacker Jesse Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate at the School of Architecture, estimates 50 million Americans could move to climate havens due to climate change-related risks and weather events.
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Poets and Quants
The A. B. Freeman School of Business has announced a new full-time MBA curriculum that will begin this fall.
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Newsweek
Cynthia Ebinger, Marshall-Heape Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the School of Science and Engineering, explains how researchers measure and predict tectonic plate movements and elevation changes.
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