Mairi Noverr (left) of Tulane School of Medicine along with Monica Vaccari (center) and Tracy Fischer (right) of the Tulane National Primate Research Center received some fast funding for proposals related to COVID-19 research.
Jordan Peele, writer, director, actor, producer and Academy Award winner, visited School of Liberal Arts professor Nghana Lewis' literature and Africana Studies virtual classes to discuss his critically acclaimed film Get Out.
Derek Warden, a Master of Laws (LLM) candidate at Tulane Law, has published more than eight legal articles in journals around the country focusing on civil rights and the rights of people with disabilities.
Join President Mike Fitts and very special guests for a livestream event to celebrate the class of 2020 on Saturday, May 16, at 2 p.m. CT. Prelude with a slideshow and musical performance by Dr. Michael White will begin at 1:45 p.m. CT. For more information, click here.
In The News
CBS News Douglas Harris, professor and department chair of economics at the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, comments on the challenges students will most likely face when they are able to return to school.
Wired Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, discusses COVID-19 research the center has been conducting on nonhuman primates and what the research has indicated so far.
Los Angeles Times David Smilde, sociology professor at the School of Liberal Arts, comments on how a recent amphibious raid in Venezuela affects Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s power.
The Guardian Valerie Paz-Soldan, professor and director of Tulane Health Offices for Latin America, says that Iquitos, Peru, has a “perfect storm of deadly factors” for COVID-19, especially as the area continues to deal with outbreaks of dengue fever.
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