The incoming class once again sets a precedent for being the highest-achieving and most selective class in university history, as well as the most diverse class ever, with 30% identifying as students of color.
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It’s the time of year again when Tulane students, new and returning, head to the uptown campus to move into their residence halls, get settled and connect with their fellow classmates before the start of the fall semester. Read More
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The new Tulane Family Portal provides news, resources and announcements collected in one spot for parents, family members and other supporters of Tulane students. Read More
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| The start of the academic year comes with excitement and anticipation; it also comes with updated COVID-19 protocols and a streamlined move-in process. Read More
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New Student Orientation, hosted by the Office of First-Year Experience, welcomes new first-year students by providing programs and activities that connect them with the Tulane community, campus, resources and their class. New Student Orientation runs through Sunday, Aug. 21. For more information and for the full schedule of activities, click here.
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The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the A. B. Freeman School of Business will host the next in its Count the Costs: Racial Inequity series on Thursday, Aug. 18, at noon. Madeline Woo and Kevin Callison of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will present “Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity among Louisiana Medicaid Beneficiaries.” Woo and Callison will share the findings from their efforts to calculate the rate of severe maternal morbidity for Medicaid recipients in Louisiana from 2013-2015 and the economic cost of racial healthcare disparity. The event will be held via Zoom and in person at the Tidewater Building, located at 1440 Canal St., in Room 1903. Registration is required. For more information, click here.
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The New York Times
“The sales make clear he intends to honor court orders,” says Ann Lipton, the Michael M. Fleishman Associate Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship at Tulane Law, of Elon Musk recently selling his Tesla shares to finance his Twitter deal.
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Yahoo
Maeve Wallace, reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, explains that it is “doubly harmful” if women are in maternal health care deserts and do not have access to transportation.
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JAMA Network
Dr. Michele Longo, clinical neurologist at the Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences at the School of Medicine, discusses the importance of making care available to all patients with long COVID-19 at centers such as the post-COVID care clinic that she and a colleague opened in New Orleans.
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Biz New Orleans
Fred Wietfeldt, chair of the Department of Physics at the School of Science and Engineering, was awarded an $8.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to precisely measure the lifetime of a free neutron.
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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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