Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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Tulane, along with developers 1532 Tulane Partners, Inc. and SKK Opportunity Zone Fund I, LLC, will transform the former Charity Hospital building into a mixed-use complex with apartments, retail, educational institutions and other uses all anchored by the university’s academic and research presence.
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Michelle Sanchez (center), professor at the School of Science and Engineering, has been named the winner of the Ada Lovelace STEM Educator Award. As director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, Sanchez and a team of students, faculty and staff have led a wide range of STEM programs benefitting students of all ages. The center also offers a K-12 teacher professional development program on both science and engineering content. Read More
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The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will host a webinar titled “Chronic Stress, Existential Stress and Biological Aging,” which will be presented by Elissa Epel, professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. The talk will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 1, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Diboll Auditorium, located on the first floor of the Tidewater Building (1440 Canal St.), and online via Zoom. Epel studies psychological, social and behavioral processes related to chronic psychological stress that accelerate biological aging, with a focus on overeating, metabolism and the telomere/telomerase maintenance system. For more information, click here.
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CNN
“I don’t think we should panic,” Robert Garry, immunologist and microbiologist at the School of Medicine, says of Omicron, the latest coronavirus variant.
Nola.com
Andy Horowitz, history professor at the School of Liberal Arts, says former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s appointment by President Biden as senior advisor and infrastructure coordinator is recognition that the challenges New Orleans and Louisiana face are “quintessentially American.”
Biz New Orleans
Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, discusses a new book he co-authored containing stories and business lessons based on his interviews with New Orleans area entrepreneurs over the last decade.
Chalkbeat
Susan Hassig, epidemiologist at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, says at the beginning of the pandemic, using public water fountains was a concern but now there is “no COVID-related reason” to not use or not have functioning water fountains.
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