School of Medicine researchers Dr. Jay Kolls and Elizabeth Norton, PhD, have developed a nasal spray vaccine to thwart the antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, which is a leading cause of pneumonia. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a multi-million dollar contract to Tulane to bring the vaccine to phase one clinical trial.
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Wave of Green — Tulane’s annual employee service day — returned on April 6, bringing about 400 faculty, staff and friends to community service projects with organizations like The Green Project, SBP, City Park, NOPD Sixth District Cleanup Project and more. Read more on the Tulane News website.
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Affinity Programs run by the Office of Alumni Relations create programming and events for alumni groups with shared identities and/or interests, and include social engagements, professional development, mentorship, service-based opportunities and more. Read more on the Alumni Relations website.
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The Title IX Office and the Division of Student Affairs will host multiple events in April addressing the results of the 2022 Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey and the new All In 2.0 plan, which focuses on preventing sexual misconduct on campus. President Michael Fitts, Provost Robin Forman and other campus leaders will join outside experts at 6 p.m. on April 11 for a webinar to talk through the results of the survey and the next steps. In addition, experts from Student Affairs and the Title IX Office will host in-person events both uptown and downtown on April 12 and “lunch and learns” on April 17 and April 18 on the uptown campus. The Tulane community is encouraged to come together for these events and hear more about the survey results and the plan moving forward.
Visit https://climatesurvey.tulane.edu/content/data-release-events for more information and to RSVP.
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Dallas Morning News
The Amon Carter Museum invited Maurita Poole, the director and curator of the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane, to co-curate a new emancipation-themed exhibition due to her focus on 20th century African American art and the American South.
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The Atlantic
Shauna Levy, professor of bariatric surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine, discusses research surrounding popular drugs that encourage weight loss.
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ASBMB Today
A team of researchers from the School of Medicine and the National Primate Research Center is trying to shed light on long COVID and find tools to manage it. They published their work in the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
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