A joint study conducted by the School of Medicine and the School of Social Work examined the effectiveness of remote therapy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers found that remote therapy improved engagement, mitigated symptoms and reduced repeated hospitalizations.

Researchers at the Tulane National Primate Research Center found that a vaccine currently being developed induces a robust and long-lasting immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates, similar to the protection provided by the Moderna vaccine. The study evaluated five different adjuvants, or ingredients added to vaccines, to determine which provides the most protection from the virus in nonhuman primates.

Richard Velkley, professor of philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts, has published Sarastro’s Cave: Letters From the Recent Past (Mercer University Press, 2021). This epistolary novel is a departure from Velkley’s other published works on the history of modern philosophy. Sarastro’s Cave is created from letters written by a fictional professor of history at a Southern university before he mysteriously disappears. A reviewer said that the novel is “a philosophic tour de force — witty, intellectually absorbing, and in the end deeply moving.