Trailblazers

A portrait by Terrance Osborne, internationally renowned artist and New Orleans native, of three Tulane Trailblazers — Gloria Bryant Banks (SW ’64), Pearlie Hardin Elloie (SW ’65) and Marilyn S. Piper (SW ’64) — was unveiled at the School of Social Work building in downtown New Orleans on Nov. 11, 2022.

The 'It' Factor

In describing then-freshman guard Sion James to a reporter last year, Green Wave basketball coach Ron Hunter called him a winner — someone with that enviable quality known as the “it” factor.

Brain Health

Today’s kids are very likely to live past 100 years old. Advances in health care and healthier lifestyles mean the life expectancy of Americans is on the rise. Even so, dementia is also on the rise in this country and worldwide.

Separate Car Act

A Tulane Law grad delves into the ins and outs of the 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, which was the rationale for Jim Crow racial segregation laws until another landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education, overturned them in 1954.

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