Tulane’s School of Professional Advancement will host a discussion by Epic Games executives David Stelzer and Kaye Vassey on Oct. 24. Epic Games is the creator and distributor of games such as Fortnite, Bioshock, Borderland and Robo Recall.
Tulane’s Judeo-Christian Studies department will host a lecture by Wilfred M. McClay, G.T. & Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Rogers Memorial Chapel (1229 Broadway). McClay will lecture on the topic “The Hebraic Strain in American Thought.” McClay is also an author and former Tulane faculty member. The event is free. For more information, click here.
USA Today Cecilia Gambala, MD, professor of obstetrics & gynecology at Tulane School of Medicine, says the reasons male fetuses do not survive during maternal stress are not clear and more research is needed.
Medium Timothy Harlan, MD, executive director of Tulane’s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, says that medical school students aren’t taught how to have conversations with patients about food.
Billboard Tulane’s Tipping Point concert, to be held on Nov. 1, is a new model of higher education fundraising.
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