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Tulane University has received $1.4 million from the BP Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) to collect new information about health, social wellbeing and economic impacts of the oil spill in three hard-hit coastal communities in Louisiana and Alabama.

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Recognizing the growing need for physicians with business training, Tulane University School of Medicine and the A.B. Freeman School of Business have created a new four-year, accelerated program for medical students to earn a master of business administration with their medical degrees.

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Actress and comedian Maya Rudolph, who rose to fame as a cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” will deliver the keynote address at Tulane University’s 2015 Commencement.

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Having a team in the Super Bowl correlated to an average 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65 years old, according to a study of health data covering 35 years of championship games.

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College entrepreneurs have less than two weeks to enter the 15th annual Tulane Business Model Competition for a chance to win more than $25,000 in cash and prizes for promising startup ventures.

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Cellphone support can help people lose significantly more weight, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

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Phyllis M. Taylor, chair of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation and a member of the Board of Tulane, has announced a $15 million gift to Tulane University to establish the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking.

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Healthcare reform cuts in Medicaid payments for uncompensated care could force 225 struggling hospitals to close or drastically curtail services for the poor over the next decade, according to a new study in the November issue of Health Affairs.

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Tulane is launching a groundbreaking study looking at critical periods early in a child’s life when exposure to stressors matters most. The goal is to track telomeres – a cellular marker for aging and stress – to discover the biological mechanism for how early trauma gets under the skin, potentially stealing time from a child’s biological clock. Can parents create a biological buffer that shields children decades later from disease and toxic stress?

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A new study shows that children in homes affected by violence, suicide, or the incarceration of a family member have significantly shorter telomeres—a cellular marker of aging, than those in stable households.

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Researchers following almost 450 children enrolled in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study, one of the largest studies of HIV-positive children in the United States, found that 74 percent had developed resistance to at least one form of drug treatment.

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Tulane University has announced the establishment of the Stacy Mandel Palagye and Keith Palagye Program for Middle East Peace.

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New Orleans native and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters and deliver the keynote address to graduates at Tulane University’s Commencement 2014, which will be held at 9 a.m., May 17 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

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Lingering stress from major disasters can damage health years later, according to a new Tulane University study that found a three-fold spike in heart attacks continued in New Orleans six years after Hurricane Katrina.

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As more parents consider whether it’s safe for adolescents to play football, a new Tulane University study of high school players found no link between years of play and any decline in neurocognitive function.

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Tulane University, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the Aspen Institute’s Franklin Project will launch a pilot program this summer to give recent graduates an opportunity to spend a year of public service in New Orleans.

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Tulane University's Grand Challenge "Water Innovations: Reducing Hypoxia, Restoring our Water" will seek technical market based solutions to combat hypoxia, a deadly deficiency of oxygen in water created by the excessive growth of phytoplankton. The team with the best solution will win $1 million.

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Michael A. Fitts, dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 15th president of Tulane University.

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Tulane University will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. today in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall for a special announcement regarding its presidential search.

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Tulane University Chemistry Professor Igor Rubtsov and a team of graduate students can lay claim to inventing an important new scientific instrument - the world’s first fully automated dual-frequency two-dimensional infrared spectrometer.

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Tulane University School of Medicine is the first major research university to launch a crowdfunding partnership with Microryza, a platform focused on funding new science discoveries. Tulane researchers have 45 days to convince the public to fund 13 projects.

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More than eight years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a team of Tulane University ecologists, sociologists and geographers is joining forces with other national experts to better understand how rebuilding after a disaster can effect human and ecological well-being. The work will include one of the largest ecological studies of urban rats ever undertaken.

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High blood-sugar levels, such as those linked with Type 2 diabetes, make beta amyloid protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease dramatically more toxic to cells lining blood vessels in the brain, according to a new Tulane University study published in latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

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Two researchers from Tulane University have won a $1 million grant to design more effective and cost efficient dispersants than those used in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Scott Grayson, an associate chemistry professor at Tulane, and Wayne Reed, a Tulane physics professor, are seeking to develop dispersants that have minimal side effects if ingested by human or marine life.

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Scott S. Cowen will retire as Tulane University's 14th President effective July 1, 2014.

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, will deliver the keynote address to graduates at Tulane University’s 2013 Commencement.

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Benjamin Hall, an assistant professor of cell and molecular biology and neuroscience at Tulane University, will explore questions that could eventually lead to new treatments for chronic depression.

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The Tulane University Law School and the Payson Center for International Development are joining forces to offer a Masters in Law and Development.

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Tulane University wants to help reporters spice up their coverage while in New Orleans for Super Bowl and Mardi Gras.

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Consumers make irrational inferences about their health risks based on the price of their medicine.

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Tulane University’s Center for Aging has received a $10.4 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to develop the careers of promising young scientists in the field of biomedical aging research.

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For the first time, a medical school and a major culinary institution plan to implement a fully integrated, comprehensive joint curriculum for doctors, medical students, chefs and the community focused on the significant health role that food choices and nutrition play in preventing and managing obesity and associated diseases in America.

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Childhood exposure to lead dust has been linked to lasting physical and behavioral effects, and now lead dust from vehicles using leaded gasoline has been linked to instances of aggravated assault two decades after exposure, according to researchers at Tulane University and Colorado State University.



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Restaurants looking to help customers slim down should focus on portion sizes rather than calorie labeling.

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Tulane University is one of only seven institutions in the country to be a part of the NFL's Neurological Care Program for retired players.

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Tulane University study of aid to Haiti finds that 36 percent of households in the directly affected area -- and 54 percent of those living in camps -- still have not recovered to their pre-earthquake levels almost two years after the disaster.

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Tulane University to start a network of education and development programs in disaster resilience and leadership in Asia and Africa.

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An international research team led by Dr. Cindy Leissinger of Tulane University School of Medicine, along with Dr. Alessandro Gringeri from the University of Milan, has found that a drug commonly used to treat bleeding events in people with a type of severe hemophilia can also be used to prevent such events from happening in the first place.

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Tulane University, CME Group and EMI to offer new training program for energy and trading professionals this fall in Chicago, Houston and New Orleans.

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Tulane University will conduct a $6.5 million study into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the health of pregnant women in Louisiana's coastal parishes.

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The Weatherhead Foundation has pledged another $50 million to Tulane University to fund scholarships for students with a passion for community service.

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Most children born with HIV are now faring well into adolescence and adulthood, according to a newly published study from Tulane.

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New Tulane vaccine aims to wipe out malaria using the same menace that spreads it – the mosquito bite.

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New robotic surgery for throat cancer has fewer complications, faster recovery time.

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Tulane University has created a new graduate degree program for those planning to pursue careers in the energy industry.

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Innovative trap fights dengue fever by preying on mosquitoes' motherly instincts.

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Today President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Tulane University President Scott Cowen to the newly formed White House Council for Community Solutions.

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Best-selling author, reporter, New York Times columnist and three time Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate from Tulane University at its 2011 Commencement, which will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 12 in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.