Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges will deliver the keynote address at Tulane’s 2021 All-University Unified Commencement, which will be held in virtual format, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 22. The university will host smaller, in-person ceremonies for individual schools and colleges within the university.
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During the 24-hour Give Green: A Day for the Audacious event held on March 23, Tulanians raised more than $1.3 million from more than 4,000 gifts. This year’s amount represents an almost 200 percent increase over the amount raised during the first-ever Give Green in 2018. Read More
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Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is a leader in organizing fellow Black members of the National Academy of Medicine, the premier health science organization in the United States, in urging Black Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black Americans are 1.9 times as likely to die from COVID-19 than White Americans. Read More
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The Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience will host a discussion and book launch of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, written by Tulane Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Golan Moskowitz, today at 11 a.m. via Zoom. Moskowitz will be joined in discussion by Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, and Brian Selznick, author and illustrator of children’s books, including The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Marah Gubar, associate professor of literature at MIT, will moderate. Michael Cohen, director of the Grant Center, and Ilana McQuinn, Grant Center program coordinator, will provide opening and closing remarks. For more information and to register, click here.
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WWL-TV Susan Hassig, epidemiologist at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, discusses some concerns regarding “vaccine passports.”
NPR Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane Sports Law Program, says the battle between student-athletes and colleges on whether athletes can profit from name, image and likeness is an economic and civil rights fight.
National Geographic Robert Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Medicine, says the possibility of the coronavirus being transmitted from a bat to a human is “not too big a stretch.”
Gambit Jesse Keenan, real estate professor at the School of Architecture, Anjali Sheffrin, energy and environmental economics professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, and Rebecca Rouse, associate director of emergency and security studies at the School of Professional Advancement, discuss how New Orleans can prepare for future winter storms.
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