The gift, prompted by Board of Tulane member and alumnus E. Pierce Marshall Jr. (B ’90), honors the memory of Marshall’s father, E. Pierce Marshall.

The anonymous donation kickstarts the third phase of the dollar-for-dollar matching program that supports undergraduate scholarship opportunities.

Tulane is an economic and community powerhouse for New Orleans and Louisiana, making an annual $5.2 billion impact on the state’s economy. The university’s operations, capital investments, research and other activities touch every segment of Louisiana communities.

Tulane announced the naming of its School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in honor of alumna Celia Scott Weatherhead. The school’s new name recognizes Weatherhead’s landmark total lifetime giving of more than $160 million in support of the university.

Ashley Langford, a standout point guard for the Green Wave from 2005 to 2009, has returned to Tulane as the seventh women's basketball head coach and first African American to lead the program. 

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and First Lady Jill Biden visited Tulane to celebrate a project that promises to bring a new kind of magic to the world of cancer treatment.

Tulane welcomes a new dean of Tulane Law School, a new vice president of Student Affairs, an interim dean of the School of Social Work, an interim dean of the School of Professional Advancement and a new dean of the School of Science and Engineering.

The changes happening on Tulane’s downtown campus will pave the way for its rebirth as a national research and innovation powerhouse. 

A flurry of excitement, cheers, music — and “Swifties” — filled the Avron B. Fogelman Arena at the President’s Convocation for New Students.

Senior engineering students brought their design for a lunar rover to a NASA contest in Florida as finalists.