Winter 2024

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Building a Better AI

Tulane faculty seek to unlock the secrets of more powerful and useful artificial intelligence applications and to work with community partners to ensure AI’s fairness for those whom it impacts.Continue Reading

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Things Are Looking Up Downtown

Tulane’s expanding downtown campus is the result of the vision of President Michael A. Fitts, who never doubted the potential of the area to become a major hub for research, innovation and medicine. Continue Reading

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‘Always’ Audacious

The university’s successful “Only the Audacious” campaign has raised more than $1.5 billion and continues as “Always the Audacious,” with four key priorities to transform university life. Continue Reading

Also In This Issue

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Winter 2024

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Lindsay Cronk, Mollye Demosthenidy and Anita Raj

feature, leadership, academics, campus

Shared Success

Three new campus faculty leaders — Lindsay Cronk, Mollye Demosthenidy and Anita Raj — have bonded over their new roles and agree that now is an even more exciting time to be a Tulanian. Continue Reading

stylish and charming Louis Prima winks in an old photo

feature, music, culture, history

The Prima Papers

An archive of one of jazz’s ‘wildest’ performers finds a home at Tulane. Continue Reading

David Harris in a blue suit sitting at a desk

up first, athletics, leadership, campus, sports

New Director of Athletics

David Harris is the Green Wave’s new Director of Athletics and the Ben Weiner Director of Athletics Chair. Continue Reading

up first, liberal arts, music, New Orleans

Composer and Pianist Courtney Bryan Receives ‘Genius Grant’

Courtney Bryan, music professor in the School of Liberal Arts, has been named a 2023 “genius grant” recipient by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Continue Reading

Kaia Todd runs on a track and Sion James runs with a basketball in a game

up first, athletics, sports, race and inclusion

2023 Stephen Martin Scholars

Student-athletes Sion James and Kaia Todd are the 2023 recipients of the Stephen Martin Scholars. Continue Reading

up first, research, immunology, microbiology

Gut Microbiome May Help HIV Outcomes

Tulane researchers have been awarded a grant to study how changing the gut microbiome may ease gastrointestinal issues for people taking antiretroviral therapy for HIV. Continue Reading

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up first, campus, New Orleans

The ‘Dream Job’

Angus Lind writes about memories of the Tulane pool hall/bowling alley/ping-pong facility, where he had a student job — a dream job. Continue Reading

Trenton Holliday surrounded by four replica Cro-Magnon skulls

liberal arts, anthropology, up first, history

Cro-Magnons ‘Like You and Me’

Trenton Holliday, professor of anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts, thinks human evolution is cool and hopes you think so, too. Continue Reading

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research, public health, health, up first

Alcohol And Blood Pressure

Limiting yourself to one alcoholic drink a day may not be enough to avoid detrimental impacts on your health. Continue Reading

research, public health, epidemiology, up first, community health

Landmark Study Achieves New Importance

This rural Louisiana town once linked heart disease to childhood. Fifty years later, it’s taking aim at dementia. Continue Reading

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President, viewpoint, New Orleans, future, campus

Tulane’s Identity

Hurricane Katrina did not change Tulane’s identity — it reinforced and affirmed it. Continue Reading

John Barney Taylor (left) and George B. McCullough (right) stand, wearing suits

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Impression: John Barney Taylor and George B. McCullough

George B. McCullough (B ’48, B ’52) and John Barney Taylor (B ’48) first met in 1943. Fast-forward some seven-plus decades, and they still keep in touch. Continue Reading

Demeka Fields portrait wearing a black sweater

law, sports law, sports, race and inclusion

Impression: Demeka Fields

Demeka Fields (L ’16) never dreamed that less than a decade post-law school, she would be counsel for sportswear company New Balance. Continue Reading

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Tulanians – Class Notes

Find your classmates by decade! Continue Reading

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Farewell

We say goodbye to Tulanians whose deaths were reported to the university during the past quarter. Continue Reading

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tulanians, liberal arts, theatre, music

Tribute: B. Michael Howard

B. Michael Howard, beloved music faculty member and longtime artistic director for Summer Lyric Theatre, died on Aug. 12, 2023. Continue Reading

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wavemakers, academics, future

Tulane Receives $5 Million in Scholarship Support

An anonymous $5 million donation will expand undergraduate scholarship opportunities at Tulane. Continue Reading

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wavemakers, athletics, sports

$10 Million Gift from Don and Lora Peters to Upgrade Athletics Facilities

A lead gift from longtime Tulane supporters Don and Lora Peters to the capital campaign “Investing in Excellence” will upgrade athletics facilities and infrastructure. Continue Reading

In Brief

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Space law program takes flight

The Space Law program at Tulane Law School officially launched this fall with two courses, Space Law: Jurisdiction and International Treaties, and Space Law: Property, Tort and the Environment. A “mini-course” was also offered last spring, attracting 60 students.

visit https://tulane.it/space-law-program-takes-flight

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Quantum engineering consortium

The School of Science and Engineering will receive $500,000 as part of a new consortium dedicated to educating quantum engineers. The funding will train a new generation of these engineers in advanced computing and communications technologies. The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Energy’s RENEW Initiative, which awarded a total of $4.8 million in grants to the seven universities in the consortium.

visit https://tulane.it/3rcKgR7

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Steven and Jann Paul Hall Opens

When the Steven and Jann Paul Hall for Science and Engineering officially opened in January as the new home of the School of Science and Engineering, it will bring 70,000 square feet in a five-story building with research laboratories, an animal research facility, a 200-plus seat auditorium, student gathering areas and more.

visit https://tulane.it/4b16ebv

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Tulane is a ‘hunger-free campus’

The Louisiana Board of Regents designated Tulane and other Louisiana universities as a “hunger-free” campus, indicating that Tulane has established elements of a program designed to combat food insecurity among students, including participating in at least one anti-hunger awareness event each academic year.

visit https://tulane.it/hunger-free-campus