Tulane selected Emmy award-winning journalist Anderson Cooper as the keynote speaker at the 2010 Commencement May 15 in the Superdome.

Cooper, anchor on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°” and contributor to CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” will join a list of recent commencement speakers at Tulane which includes George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Brian Williams, James Carville, Mary Matalin […]

The Tulane Prevention Research Center, part of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, recently received a renewal of its $5.3 million grant from the Center for Disease Control.
The PRC is a research organization consisting of Tulane graduate students and faculty along with its own staff that focuses on the effect environments have on obesity […]

A team of Tulane students won a social entrepreneurship contest based on the new mtvU series “Movers and Changers.”

The WetTea project was selected from hundreds of entries from across the country as the winner. The team consisted of public health major Shea Kathryne Shelton and business majors Jay Zhao and Nic LaGatta.
The WetTea team and runner-up SafeSnip […]

Tulane hosted award-winning poet C.D. Wright Monday in Freeman Auditorium to read a selection of her poetry to an audience of Tulane and Loyola students and community members.
Wright, a professor at Brown University, said she was delighted to come to Tulane to be honored as the 11th annual Florie Gale Arons Poet. The Newcomb College Center […]

The Community Action Council of Tulane University Students is working with more than 10 other organizations to bring Human Trafficking Week to Tulane Nov 2-9.

The organizations are leading a week of programming that they hope will bring awareness to the many issues that fall under the umbrella of human trafficking and get students involved.
“I want […]

The Mortuary is one of New Orleans most well-known haunted houses, and for good reason. Located at 4800 Canal Street in the heart of New Orleans, The Mortuary is actually an old funeral home surrounded by three very real cemeteries that is transformed for two months every year into an incredibly elaborate and well-done […]

With Moliere’s “Tartuffe,” adapted by David Ball and directed by Antony Sandoval, the Tulane theatre program has managed to take classic seventeenth-century French comedy and turn it into something humorous and compelling for a modern audience.
The premise is simple: Tartuffe is an impoverished con-artist who swindles his way into the heart of Orgon, a wealthy man […]

While Tulane students are surely aware of the massive undertaking that is the McAlister Place Project, it isn’t the only construction going on near Tulane’s campus. St. Charles Avenue is currently undergoing repairs as well.

The Submerged Roads Program is heading the project on St. Charles along with numerous other projects throughout the city. The construction on […]

Tulane recently partnered with Ashoka, an organization dedicated to connecting and facilitating social entrepreneurship programs at universities across the United States, to further its dedication to service and lasting social change.
This weekend will be Ashoka’s first site visit to Tulane. After meeting with student leaders, the organization will hold a public meeting Monday to discuss specific programs.
Eight […]

“We’ve gotten off to a very good start this year so far, and the fraternities and sororities have been very understanding.”-James ArogetiInterfraternity
Council President
Tulane is in the process of hiring a new director of sorority and fraternity programs. The position has remained vacant thus far this semester.
The director of sorority and fraternity programs is responsible for managing and […]

Tulane administrators predict that this year’s retention rate will reach a record 90 percent, the highest in recent history.
The average retention rate of the past four freshmen classes was approximately 87 percent, with minor fluctuations each year. Though official statistics will not become available until Oct. 1, the retention rate will reach at least 90 […]

Tulane Dining Services implemented Simply-to-Go this week in Bruff Commons in an attempt to reduce crowds and allow hurried students to get lunch conveniently.
The system allows a student to use Bruff swipes to get the new meal options available for carryout only.
The service works the same as any other Bruff meal for most. Those with […]