Dinwiddie Hall opened for classes and to academic departments this week after more than a year of renovations.

The four-story, 4,500-square-foot building was remodeled in accordance with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines, which provide a framework for designing “green” buildings. If it passes the certification, Dinwiddie will be the first LEED-certified building on campus, said […]

President Barack Obama announced this week that he will deliver a speech Sunday at Xavier University in New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Obama’s speech will conclude a week of events involving many members of his administration honoring the anniversary. According to the White House, these activities range from Federal Emergency Management […]

The Tulane City Center, which is the applied urban research and outreach branch of the School of Architecture, received a $1-million grant from an anonymous donor earlier this year.

The grant provides $100,000 to fund two design projects each year.
Professors and students in the School of Architecture are currently working on two projects supported in part […]

The Tulane Chabad Student Center celebrated the unveiling of a new Torah Tuesday in Stibbs Conference Room in the Lavin-Bernick Center.

“This is the first [Torah completion ceremony] in the New Orleans area in about five years,” Tulane Chabad Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin said.
Previously, Tulane Chabad had used a borrowed Torah for services.
“Getting our own Torah represents that […]

Dave Eggers, author of the critically acclaimed “Zeitoun,” which was the Tulane Reading Project book for 2010, spoke yesterday at McAlister Auditorium.

The non-fiction book details the experience of Syrian immigrant Abdulrahman Zeitoun in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“I was drawn to Zeitoun’s story for so many reasons,” Eggers said. “From the beginning, I had this image […]

Army Corps of Engineers awards $43.2 million contract for floodwall around Causeway Bridge
Boh Brothers Construction of New Orleans will construct a floodwall that is intended to provide 100 years of storm protection. The planned floodwall is intended to strengthen the current lakefront levees near the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge. The corps said that the project […]

A Tulane student reported she was sexually assaulted around 3 a.m. Sunday by an unknown man in the foyer of her home, located on Versailles Boulevard. Versailles is across Claiborne Avenue from Tulane’s campus.
Though the student was sexually assaulted outside the perimeters of Tulane’s official police coverage, Tulane is still heavily involved in dealing with […]

KATRINA POETRY READING
SUNDAY 3:30 P.M.
KENDALL CRAM LECTURE HALL, LAVIN BERNICK CENTER
Eight poets, including Tulane Professor Peter Cooley, will perform in a reading of Katrina poetry. The university’s English department and the Poetry Society of America will sponsor the reading.
“KATRINA REMEMBERED: FIVE YEARS LATER”
MONDAY
LBC
In a multimedia exhibit presented by Tulane, the story of the school’s survival […]

Fifty killed in Iraq as insurgents strike in demonstration of strength
Iraqi insurgents attacked U.S. military personnel in 13 cities and towns across Iraq in response to assertions that their power in the region is fading. The attacks occurred one day after the U.S. military announced that troop counts have dropped below 50,000, in accordance with […]

Men shoot student with stun gun
A Tulane student was talking on his cell phone on his porch when a black man ran past him. A Hispanic man then approached him from the front, while the black man approached him from the rear and shot him with a stun gun on the back of his neck. […]

The Department of Student Affairs will hold its annual activities expo today from 4 - 6 p.m. in the Lavin-Bernick Center.
“We have so many organizations,” said Adrianne Rosenbluth, Undergraduate Student Government vice president of student organizations. “I want Tulane students to feel like if there is a club they want to see created, they can […]

When we look back on the last decade in music, there are a ton of things that stick out. Boy bands, the rise of electro, Soulja Boy, the advent of hipsterdom, etc etc. Being asked to name the most important/influential musician of the last ten years is a hard task, especially in a decade so […]

Students were asked to provide racial and ethnic information on Gibson Online as part of a federally-mandated survey.
The survey is part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System report, which collects and presents information from all institutions that receive funding from the federal student financial aid program.
IPEDS decided to expand the race […]

“I showed Daft Punk to the rock kids,” said James Murphy, on his first and arguably best single, “Losing My Edge.” He’s not lying — and that action changed the sound of a decade. The true credit, however, belongs to Daft Punk.

I was six or seven when all of this was going down, but I can […]

Tulane’s Law School is using a new grading curve designed to make graduates more competitive with other institutions when they enter the job market.
The school’s Academic Affairs Committee, made up of faculty, administrators and students, made the change after a full year of consideration.
“It had been the same grading system since 1987,” said Brandon Creekbaum, a […]