I’m Always So Serious, a debut poetry collection of Karisma Price, assistant professor of English at Tulane, was published in February by Sarabande Books. Price’s poems center on Blackness, family and loss and weave personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of the past and present. Price has received several fellowships and was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation.
In gratitude for the Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discovery Center’s work in saving his life, an anonymous patient has donated almost $4 million to the center, which is directed by Dr. Nassir Marrouche, professor of medicine.
Entrepreneur and longtime Tulane professor John Elstrott and his wife, Patty, have established the Elstrott Charitable Remainder Unitrust to honor their family’s Tulane legacy and to provide for the university’s strong future.
Under bright blue skies, and with plenty of Tulane spirit in the air, Wave Weekend ’22 brought alumni, parents, current students, and faculty and staff members to the uptown campus for Homecoming, class reunions and Family Weekend Oct. 21-23. See photos of the fun gatherings throughout the weekend.
In an excerpt from his new book, Lost in the Game: A Book About Basketball, the author writes about the inexorable, generational pull of a game of hoops.
The first writer after World War II to use Konzentrationslager — “concentration camp” — in German-language literature, Ilse Aichinger was a major voice in the work of memory of the holocaust.
With a U.S. State Department grant, Tulane alumni and students formed a nonprofit organization to provide international affairs career guidance and mentorship to underrepresented students from noncoastal areas of the United States.
On Thursday, June 16, Tulane University held a ribbon cutting for its new Innovation Institute, a transformative university-wide endeavor designed to bring Tulane research as well as the discoveries and breakthroughs of other institutions and individuals from the surrounding community and region to market faster.