Mark Davis, director of Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy and ByWater Institute

Submitted by marian on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 14:30

“We’re still standing on decisions that were made two or three generations ago.” MARK DAVIS, director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy and director of the ByWater Institute, said in Time regarding Louisiana’s methods of trying to control the Mississippi River.

Zachary Lazar, professor of English

Submitted by marian on Wed, 08/28/2019 - 16:19

“They are, in a very concrete way, doing things and reading things that show them that they’re important, that their lives matter and that other people are paying attention to their lives,” Zachary Lazar said in The Creative Brain, a Netflix documentary, about a service-learning creative writing class he teaches to inmates at the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

Submitted by marian on Wed, 08/28/2019 - 15:43

“We don’t build monuments to trolls. ... If you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself who benefits from all the chaos.” Tim Cook, CEO of Apple and Tulane University Commencement speaker, on May 18, 2019. Cook reminded the graduates that “young people have changed history, time and time again.”

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