Tulane Green Wave football and Coach Willie Fritz made history on Dec. 3 as the team captured the American Athletic Conference Championship with a thrilling victory over the University of Central Florida, 45-28, in a packed Yulman Stadium. Next up: A trip to the Goodyear Cotton Bowl on Jan. 2.
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Ellie Dylan, who graduated from Newcomb College in 1974, co-directed the award-winning documentary film, On Our Own Island. The film chronicles the love story of Dylan and her husband and his journey battling cancer. Dylan credits her experiences at Tulane with playing a pivotal part in the film’s message, her career and life. Read more on the Tulanian magazine website.
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The Global Port Cities project takes place Tuesday, Dec. 6, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. in the Diboll Gallery of The Commons. The Port Cities project is an initiative led by School of Liberal Arts Dean Brian Edwards alongside his longtime collaborator, Moroccan playwright, novelist, and journalist Driss Ksikes. Underlying this project is the premise that there is a particular relationship between creativity and port cities such as New Orleans; Tangier, Morocco; and Naples, Italy. The event is open to the public. See the discussion topics and panelists at the event Wavesync page.
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Anne Lafont, art historian and professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, will present the 2022 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture, “Tying, publicizing, adorning: The buttons of Toussaint Louverture” at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, in Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center. The lecture will address a series of buttons that once adorned the uniform of Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture and which are now preserved in the Cooper Hewitt museum in New York. Lafont studies the art, images and material culture of the Black Atlantic. Read more about the lecture at the event Wavesync page.
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Associated Press
Tulane running back Tyjae Spears was chosen as the offensive player of the year for the American Athletic Conference and Green Wave Coach Willie Fritz was unanimously voted as the AAC’s coach of the year.
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Nola.com
Fayçal Falaky, chair of the French and Italian Department at the School of Liberal Arts, explains the context around French heads of state visiting New Orleans.
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FOX Weather
Jesse Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate at the School of Architecture, explains how extreme weather plays a role in where people move.
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