This year’s New Student Orientation, hosted by the Office of First-Year Experience, has been designed to create a cohesive and improved experience for new students and their families as they navigate the Tulane campus for the first time.
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Kim Boyle (left), one of New Orleans’ top lawyers, and Michael D. Rubenstein (right), a Tulane graduate and leading attorney based in Houston, have been named to the Board of Tulane, the university’s main governing body. Boyle previously served on the board and was elected to an additional term. Rubenstein will serve as the new Tulane Alumni Association member of the board. Read More
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Harry Gestetner, a recent graduate of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, launched Fanfix, a monetization platform for content creators, that recently sold for eight figures. Gestetner, CEO of Fanfix and senior vice president at SuperOrdinary — the company that purchased Fanfix — credits Freeman’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for help in bringing the startup to fruition. Read More
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A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane’s ByWater Institute, provides artists a space to work on environmentally focused projects through their six-week artist residency program. The program, which runs from this month to June 2023, invites artists to examine the severity of the climate crisis. Read More
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The Office of Sustainability is sponsoring the annual Trash to Treasure move-in sale on Monday, Aug. 15, through Friday, Aug. 19, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the McWilliams Lab Theatre (McWilliams 104). Trash to Treasure is a student-led waste reduction initiative that collects unwanted dorm room items from the spring semester move-out and sells them to students for reduced prices during fall move-in. The initiative also collects donations of lightly used items. All proceeds go to local nonprofit organizations. The sale is open to the campus community. For more information, click here, or contact Jordan Stewart, the assistant director of the Office of Sustainability.
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Quartz
Commenting on the litigation between Twitter and Elon Musk, Ann Lipton says that Musk would need to show the percentage of bots and spam accounts on Twitter have a significant, long-term impact on Twitter’s finances to support his claims. Lipton is the Michael M. Fleishman Associate Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship at Tulane Law.
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The Public Discourse
God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, by Ilana M. Horwitz, assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies and the Fields-Rayant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life at the School of Liberal Arts, is reviewed.
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ABC Action News
“This is the harbinger of what’s to come for many states as insurance becomes more expensive and harder to get,” Jesse Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Real Estate at the School of Architecture, says of homeowners insurance companies dropping clients or not paying out claims due to the increased costs of recovering from natural disasters spurred by climate change.
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Submission deadline is noon three business days prior to publication date.
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