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"TUgether – Connecting the Class of 2020" will take place virtually on Saturday, May 16, beginning at 1:45 p.m. (CT). The celebration will feature remarks by President Michael Fitts, student speakers and celebrity guests.
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School of Science and Engineering Dean Kimberly Foster (center) will moderate the second installment of the Tulane Innovation webinar series on Monday, May 18, at 11 a.m. (CT). The installment will feature Robert Garry (left), professor of microbiology and immunology, and Skip Bohm (right), associate director and chief veterinary medical officer of the Tulane National Primate Research Center.
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Early results of a clinical trial reveal that therapies based on tumor genetics may also show promise in treating some men with prostate cancer. Oliver Sartor, MD, head of Tulane Cancer Center’s Prostate Cancer Research Program, co-authored the international study.
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A $10,000 transportation grant from the American Cancer Society will supplement the Road to Recovery program, through which volunteers use their personal vehicles to transport cancer patients to and from appointments.
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A grant recently awarded to the School of Social Work will support a program called Putting Policy in its Place, which aims to teach students to examine how policy shapes their clients’ lives and impacts their practice.
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The School of Medicine will host a community town hall on managing stress and anxiety while adapting to the “new normal” on Friday, May 15, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. The town hall will feature a panel of Tulane experts in stress, mindfulness, disaster and trauma available to answer your questions. For more information, click here.
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The School of Social Work will host a webinar and Q&A for returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Fulbright Program scholars to learn about scholarships and programs available to them. The webinar will be on Thursday, May 21, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, click here.
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The Lancet
Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, says African Americans are more likely than others to work in jobs that place them at risk of exposure to COVID-19.
Library Journal
Lina Moses, epidemiologist and disease ecologist at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Elaine Hicks, librarian at Tulane’s Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, discuss the creation of the Librarian Reserve Corps and how information gathered by the organization is helping the World Health Organization.
Architect Magazine
School of Architecture Dean Iñaki Alday says Tulane was well-prepared to adapt to COVID-19 and discusses how architecture classes at the university have been restructured for online teaching and learning.
WWL-TV
Jay Kolls, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics and the John W. Deming Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine at Tulane, discusses how vitamin D may help a person fight COVID-19.
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