LCMC Health and Tulane University today announced intentions to partner to expand access to comprehensive and specialty care across Southeast Louisiana, enhance the region’s capabilities as a destination for medical innovation and training, and provide community investments and benefits. The partnership builds on the nonprofit organizations’ long history of collaborating to improve the health of patients and communities in New Orleans and across Louisiana.
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Tulane physician Dr. Demetri Maraganore, the Herbert J. Harvey Jr. Chair in Neurosciences and co-director of the Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences, said that some forms of dementia and other kinds of cognitive decline are often preventable with lifestyle modifications. Read more on the Tulane news site.
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| | Laila Hlass (left), Immigrant Rights Clinic Director at Tulane, and Mary Yanik (right), co-director of the clinic, received a grant to study the role that race plays in mass and prolonged detention of immigrants across the country. Read more on the Tulane news site.
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The Native Garden on the Academic Quad is one of the many beautiful gardens on campus. The garden is designed as a natural stormwater runoff system to capture and slowly release rainwater into a standard drainage system. See the photos.
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An evening of poetry featuring Niyi Osundare, emeritus distinguished professor of English at the University of New Orleans, and Bouchaib Gadir, senior professor of practice in Arabic Studies at Tulane, will take place Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 6 p.m. in Freeman Auditorium (Room 205) of the Woldenberg Art Center. Osundare earned the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, the Noma Award — Africa’s most prestigious book award — the Tchicaya U Tam’si Award for African Poetry, and the Fonlon/Nichols Award for “excellence in literary creativity combined with significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa,” among other notable awards. The event is hosted by the Arabic Studies department, and sponsored by the English department, the Germanic & Slavic department, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Visit the event Wavesync page for more information.
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NBC News (video)
Jesse Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate at the School of Architecture, discusses if low-lying areas, like those impacted by Hurricane Ian, can rebuild when they are already vulnerable to climate change-driven weather events.
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Yahoo
Ann Lipton, Tulane Law professor, says it’s “definitely an advantage” to Elon Musk that the judge presiding over the Musk-Twitter case halted the previously scheduled trial following Musk’s revived proposal to buy the social media platform.
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New Orleans City Business
The School of Professional Advancement, in partnership with New Schools for New Orleans, has been awarded a federal grant to recruit hundreds of teachers for local public schools.
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