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| Thousands of face shields were donated by Apple to a personal protective equipment (PPE) drive organized by the School of Medicine. Apple announced a company-wide effort to design, produce and ship face shields to healthcare workers treating COVID-positive patients.
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President Mike Fitts announced the launch of the Tulane Innovation webinar series, the first of which will be held Monday, May 4, at 10 a.m. The virtual gathering, moderated by Walter Isaacson, will feature School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean Thomas LaVeist and epidemiology professor Susan Hassig discussing COVID-19’s health disparities and public impacts.
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Professors and best-selling authors Walter Isaacson and John Barry will host the first New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Virtual Discussion at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29. Isaacson will interview Barry, the author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, and discuss how that pandemic mirrors the current COVID-19 pandemic, among other topics.
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The Tulane School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) is accepting applications until Aug. 15 for its new online Master of Public Administration degree program that will start in fall 2020. The curriculum addresses real-world challenges faced by today’s civic sector leaders.
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Tulane Law School has launched two online master’s programs in energy law and environmental law, which are designed for non-lawyers working in those respective fields, regulators in the industries, and professionals who are part of public interest and advocacy groups.
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The Ford Foundation Gallery in New York is hosting a free, virtual concert, Per(Sister) in Song, held in conjunction with Newcomb Art Museum’s exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana. The concert is a sample of the unique sounds of Louisiana and the intimate stories of the women incarcerated by the state. The concert will be Thursday, April 30, from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. CST. To RSVP and for more information, click here.
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USA Today
Matt Sakakeeny, ethnomusicologist at the School of Liberal Arts, discusses the impact COVID-19 has had on funerals in New Orleans.
ABC News
Siyab Panhwar, MD, cardiology fellow at Tulane Medical Center, says that blood clotting and sometimes cardiac arrest are trends he has seen in COVID-19 patients.
NPR
Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, says the South is the epicenter for health inequities in the country, and those inequities put the region at risk in a health pandemic.
FOX News
Peter Ricchiuti, business professor at Tulane, says COVID-19 has put New Orleans in a uniquely vulnerable position and questions if there will be enough federal assistance for the city to bounce back similar to the way it did post-Karina.
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Tulane Today accepts, for consideration, news and event submissions that are of interest to the Tulane community. Items must be 80 words or less and contain contact information and a web link that will be included in the published announcement.
Submission deadline is noon three business days prior to publication date.
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