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Wednesday, November 06, 2019
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Jeffrey Tasker (left), Tulane neuroscience professor, will study how stress contributes to the development of mental health disorders. Tasker will be working with Laura Harrison (right), research assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, and Matthew Watson (center), PhD neuroscience student.
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A ribbon cutting ceremony and dedication of the Décou-Labat Residences will take place Nov. 16 from 12:45 to 1:15 p.m on the uptown campus. The residences, currently designated Willow Residences for the street on which they sit, will be named in honor of Deidre Dumas Labat and Reynold T. Décou, the first African American undergraduates to earn degrees from Newcomb and Tulane, respectively. A public conversation with Décou and Labat will take place at 2 p.m. in the Diboll Gallery on the third floor of The Commons. The dedication is part of the Tulane Trailblazers initiative. For more information, click here.
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The inaugural Bobby Yan Lectureship in Media and Social Change will feature a talk by Christine Vachon, award-winning producer of the film “Boys Don’t Cry” on Nov. 6 from 6 - 7 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Room on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. Vachon has worked on several Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films. The lectureship is also part of the Tulane Trailblazers initiative and is named after Emmy Award winner Bobby Yan, a Tulane graduate who founded Tulane’s Asian American Student Union. For more information, click here.
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Reuters
David Smilde, sociology professor at Tulane, says Mexico and Argentina’s new foreign policy is good news for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Bloomberg Law
Elizabeth Gard, copyright law professor at Tulane, says the case between Columbia University and the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation is messy, but a case that is important moving forward.
Acadiana Lifestyle
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD, says early intervention is better for children with early onset symptoms of mental illness.
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