The Tulane Innovation Institute is launching operations this year, thanks to generous gifts from forward-thinking philanthropists.

Tulane Law School will launch a new program in space law with a generous gift of $1 million from Darleen Jacobs (L ’81).

The Paul Tulane Society honors generous benefactors who have supported the university with gifts of $1 million or more.

Tulanians turned out in greater numbers than ever before to raise over $1.2 million on Tulane ’s fifth annual giving day, Give Green: A Day for the Audacious on March 22.

The Tulane University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Awards were presented for the first time in November at a gala at the Higgins Hotel near The World War II Museum in New Orleans.

When Hurricane Ida arrived 16 years to the day after Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, a narrative quickly emerged that it would be the Katrina of the 2020s. Fortunately, the improvements made to New Orleans’ flood protection system more than a decade and a half ago changed this storyline.

A teacher of drawing and painting at the School of Architecture, chair of the Newcomb Art Department and producer of modernist art, the late John Clemmer is remembered for his generosity and impact on the New Orleans art scene.

Tulane evacuated students who had sheltered in place during the storm, including on-campus and off-campus undergraduates and graduate and professional students, to Houston, where a hub was established at the university’s expense to provide students with food and lodging until they were able to get flights home.