Did You Know?

Tulane students invented SafeSnip, a device to cut infant umbilical chords in a sanitary manner.

The Newcomb-Tulane Music Department is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Green Wave coaches and student-athletes blog about their sports and life at Tulane.

You can follow your favorite Green Wave athletics teams on Twitter.

You can share your Tulane photos & videos and connect with friends on Facebook.

Gene Koss has headed the glass program at Tulane University since 1976. Under his guidance the Pace-Willson Glass Studio is now a world-class glass facility.

The Carnegie Corp. of New York awarded Tulane President Scott Cowen its prestigious Academic Leadership Award.

Bingo night, poker tournaments and concerts are among the late-night activities presented on campus by the Tulane After Dark program.

The Tulane Museum of Natural History received a grant of nearly $1.2 million to redesign a leading computer program it developed to help researchers catalog natural history collections.

Astronaut Doug Hurley, a 1988 engineering graduate, is the first Tulane alumnus to travel in space.

Tulane’s newest satellite campus will open in 2010 in Madison, Mississippi.

Author Junot Díaz visited campus as the author of the 2009 Tulane Reading Project book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Tulane University is participating in the Ashoka U Changemaker Campus Consortium, a highly selective program focused on social entrepreneurship.

Tulane University Law School offered its first classes in December 1847, making it the 12th-oldest law school in the United States.

The Tulane Center for Gene Therapy, established in 2000, was the first major center in the U.S. to focus on research using adult stem cells.

McAlister Auditorium was built in 1940 and is the world’s largest self-suspended concrete dome.

The Rare Books collection has some 50,000 titles dating from a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1456) to recent first editions.

The collection at the Meade Library for Natural History includes more than 700 journals in the aquatic and natural sciences, with journals from more than 50 countries.

Tulane offers a graduate degree in Musicology with a concentration in Jazz Studies and New Orleans music.

Stored beneath the bleachers in Tulane Stadium for 24 years, mummies Got Thothi Aunk and Nefer Atethu are the only Egyptians from 900 B.C. to attend the Super Bowl.

Assistant Professor Kyle Straub studies how groundwater flow impacts the rate of erosion.

Tulane researchers in multiple disciplines are collaborating on new treatments for triple-negative breast cancer.

President Obama has named Janet Woodka, a Tulane Law School graduate, the new federal coordinator of rebuilding in the Gulf Coast region.

Dr. Regina Benjamin, who received an MBA from the A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be U.S. surgeon general.

Thanks to research by Tulane students, the uptown campus is switching its toilet tissue and paper towel products to a new supplier whose operations are “greener” and more sustainable.

Former Tulane volleyball player Sara Radosevic was named the 2008–09 Conference USA Female Athlete of the Year.

At a recent auction, a high-glaze vase from 1904 sold for $169,200, the world-record auction price for a piece of Newcomb Pottery.

Tulane Law School students logged more than 19,000 pro bono hours in community service during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Tulane University will host the state Class 5A baseball tournament in 2010 and 2011 at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

Tulane University ranked first in 2007–08 among U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities in its percentage of bachelor's degrees in engineering awarded to women.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia cited an article written by Tulane Associate Professor of Law Pamela Metzger in a recent ruling.

Tulane’s Disaster Management Leadership Academy is the first university program in the nation to offer training through the doctoral level in international disaster management.

Tulane researchers are studying the salamander’s ability to re-grow severed appendages, which could lead to a breakthrough for humans who’ve lost limbs.

The Learning Commons, a new cyber cafe in Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, has desktop PCs and Macs and outlets for wireless access.

The McAlister Place project, currently under construction, will transform McAlister Drive into a beautifully landscaped pedestrian walkway.

Ruth's Hospitality Group has donated the site of Ruth's Chris Steak House on Broad Street in New Orleans to Tulane for the creation of a community health center.

Tulane is celebrating its 175th anniversary during its 2009 Homecoming Week. Events run Sunday, Oct. 4 through Sunday, Oct. 11.

Former NFL quarterback and Tulane football player Shaun King will co-chair this year’s Hullabaloo Homecoming Auction & Party on Oct. 9. Auction participants can bid on an ESPN experience hosted by King.

To kick off Homecoming Weekend, Tulanians will volunteer to help New Orleans low-to-mid-income residents make the switch from incandescent bulbs to energy efficient compact fluorescent lights.

Tulane parents and alumni from around the world will join the 2009 Homecoming in celebrating the university’s 175 years of excellence. Special events will be held for alumni with class reunion years.

The Tulane motto is "Non sibi, sed suis," translated as "not for one's self, but for one's own."

Tulane's athletic teams are known as the Green Wave after a song written in 1920 by Earl Sparling, then editor of the Hullabaloo.

Students in Tulane's School of Architecture URBANbuild program are building new homes and designing neighborhoods for New Orleans residents.

The A.B. Freeman School of Business is home to Burkenroad Reports, the acclaimed student-run stock analysis program. MBA and undergraduate business students in this course work in small teams to analyze one public company each. The teams visit top management, develop financial models and publish extensive investment research reports.

The Student Hurricane Network, co-founded by Tulane law students, attracted over 2,700 volunteers to provide legal assistance to Gulf Coast residents affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Tulane physicians and medical students began the Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House in the days following Hurricane Katrina. The free clinic has seen over 13,000 patients since then.

The academic home for all of Tulane's undergraduate students, Newcomb-Tulane College provides services for students, including advising, honors, study abroad and a variety of innovative student programs.

Tulane biomedical engineering students participate in an annual design contest to develop devices that benefit the disabled.

An avid interest in current urban issues prompted the School of Social Work to expand its offerings to include eight undergraduate courses beginning in Fall 2007.

Tulane is home to the Hogan Jazz Archive, the world's premier source of recordings, photographs and books about New Orleans jazz from its traditional roots to its modern form. Today the archive works with private collectors and musicians to preserve local legacies nearly lost in Hurricane Katrina.

Orientation includes the Convocation for New Students and Their Families, an opportunity for President Scott Cowen to welcome new Tulanians and introduce them to some of Tulane's academic traditions.

An exciting match up against Memphis is one of the highlights of Homecoming & Parent-Family Weekend 2007, which will be held October 26-27.

The Tulane National Primate Research Center, one of eight centers that make up the National Primate Research Center Program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a leader in infectious diseases research.

The Newcomb College Institute is an academic center offering educational and co-curricular programs designed to enhance women's education at Tulane University. The institute's mission furthers a 120-year old Newcomb legacy of providing all undergraduate women students with programs, tools and experiences to enhance their leadership and scholarship.

All eight of Tulane's Green Wave athletics teams ranked well above the national averages in the NCAA's most recent Academic Performance Rates. Each of the eight sports boasted a score of 940 or better, including cross-country with a high of 989.

Modeled after the residential college system that originated at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, the Wall Residential College integrates academic and residential life.

Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and the Tennessee Williams Festival are just a few of the unique events you'll experience as a Tulane student in New Orleans.

The Center for Public Service at Tulane University was started in 2006 to ensure that our students are learning outside the classroom and giving back to the community. Tulane is currently offering over 60 courses that have service-learning components.

The university is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, a select group of the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. Tulane undergraduates enjoy a number of research opportunities.

In 1912, the Tulane School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was established. The first such institution in the United States, it was the precursor of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Tulane will welcome home all alumni for the Wave '07 celebration, which features a day of service, a grand reunion party and the opportunity to Paint the Quarter Green, Oct. 25-27.

At this year's Homecoming on Oct. 27, all marching band alumni are invited to play with the Tulane Marching Band, in the stands or on the field at halftime. Director Barry Spanier has created new arrangements of Green Wave classics such as the Tulane Fight Song, Roll On, Tulane, and the Tulane Swing.

Parent/Family Weekend is October 26-28, 2007. This is a time for students' families to get a feel for the Tulane community, explore New Orleans, and share in the Green Wave spirit at Homecoming.

President Scott Cowen has been "blogging" to the Tulane community since 2001, with his weekly "Tulane Talk."

Senior running back Matt Forté is leading the NCAA in rushing, and is a candidate for multiple national football awards, including the Maxwell Award and the Heisman Trophy.

Did you know that you can watch free features & interviews with Green Wave coaches and student-athletes on the web?

Provost Michael Bernstein, who joined Tulane in July 2007 from the University of California at San Diego, is a history professor whose teaching and research interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory. Learn more about his duties as provost.

Benjamin P. Sachs is the new senior vice president and dean of the School of Medicine. Before coming to Tulane in November 2007, he held several appointments at Harvard Medical School, where he helped create the research team that discovered the probable cause of preeclampsia, one of the leading causes of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity worldwide.

The Reily Center at Tulane offers ballroom, belly, salsa and swing dance lessons? All classes offer a free “Intro” class before the session officially begins, so people can try it out, meet the instructor and decide if the class is right for them. For more information please contact Michelle Riley Mirpuri at (504) 314-2079 or e-mail mariley@tulane.edu.

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has partnered with Reuters and Trading Technologies to enable students to experience true, real-time market trading conditions right in the classroom. The first-of-its-kind teaching simulation brings the systems used in most commercial trading houses to Freeman’s trading center, a $2.5 million state-of-the-art classroom built to mimic a trading floor.

Researchers at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine are using a $14 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fight HIV/AIDS in eight developing countries that lack the large-scale public health resources to track HIV infections. 

Tulane will host the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative University, a program created by former President Bill Clinton to harness the energy and knowledge of college students to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Students can sign up now for this star-studded event, which will include Clinton, Lauren Bush, James Carville, Dave Eggers, Cornel West, and more.

At the first commencement address for the Tulane Medical School in 1836, the dean delivered his speech in Latin.  

Twelve medical degrees were issued during the first Tulane commencement held on April 5, 1836.

Tulane University’s uptown campus was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Twelve Louisiana governors attended Tulane University.

After Hurricane Katrina, Tulane opened its doors to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Ballet and the New Orleans Opera to perform on its campus.

The Bruff Dining Room uses 30,200 pounds of potatoes each year.

The St. Charles Avenue streetcar passes Gibson Hall 100 times a day.

Tulane won the NCAA tennis championship in 1959.

Students can learn 26 different foreign languages at Tulane.

Gibson Hall was built in 1894 by Thomas Nicholson and Company of Chicago for $117,849.

The diverse student body at Tulane represents all 50 states and more than 40 different countries.

The Hullabaloo, the student run university newspaper, prints 4,000 copies each week. 

Tulane's libraries are ranked among the top 120 research libraries in North America.

Dr. Rudolph Matas invented more than 20 surgical procedures including the Matas operation for aneurysms during his 42 years teaching at the medical school. 

The first Tulane study abroad program began in 1954 at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. 

The Tulane Stadium was home to the New Orleans Saints from 1967–1974.

One of the world’s most extensive collections of Mardi Gras memorabilia is housed in a Special Collections Archive on Tulane’s campus. 

Tulane University owns approximately 50,000 acres of land in five states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Did you know that Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine now offers a master’s degree with a concentration in disaster management?

Did you know that Tulane has one of the largest programs in the world in which students concurrently earn their master’s of public health and medical degrees?

James Carville and Mary Matalin's commencement address will be the first to feature a husband and wife as speakers.

5,000 specially made Tulane Commencement 2008 beads will be given to graduates and their guests.

Tulane will drop 1,500 commemorative beach balls and balloons to celebrate the conclusion of the Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony.

17,000 soft drinks and bottles of water will be available during Wave Goodbye.

1,500 crawfish pies and 3,000 portions of jambalaya will be served at Wave Goodbye.

6,000 barbecued oysters will be served at this year's Wave Goodbye party.

Over 2,000 commemorative second line handkerchiefs will be distributed at the Unified Ceremony.

The Tulane stadium that once stood on campus was home to Super Bowls IV, VI and IX.

There are a total of 68 alumni clubs around the world; 59 are in the U.S. and nine are international.

Tulane was founded in 1834 before California became a state in 1850. (ALSO, Arkansas became a state in 1836, Michigan in 1837, Florida in 1845, Texas in 1845). 

The first artists played on WTUL radio were the Beatles.

WTUL radio can be heard worldwide via webcast at wtulneworleans.com.

There is a blarney stone on the uptown campus outside of Stanley Thomas Hall.

Gibson Hall is named for Randall Lee Gibson, a Confederate general, U.S. senator from Louisiana and the first president of the Tulane board.

Dinwiddie Hall is named for Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie, professor of mathematics and president of Tulane from 1918–1935.

The current Navy ROTC building on the corner of Freret Street and McAlister Drive was built in 1912 as the university’s first gymnasium.

The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is the only public health school in the country with the words “tropical medicine” in its name.

Before he took the fashion world by storm, designer Geoffrey Beene studied medicine at Tulane University for three years. 

Tulane University’s uptown campus stands on land that was a sugar plantation in the late 1700s and site of the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884.

Tulane played in the Sugar Bowl twice — in 1935 and 1940.

Over 25 parades traditionally roll down the historic St. Charles Avenue every Mardi Gras season.

On January 1, 1932, Tulane football played the University of Southern California for the national championship in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. 

The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library houses more than 2 million print volumes, 8,000 current serials, and invests more than $1.7 million a year in its digital collections.

Tulane is one of the few major research universities in the country where full time faculty regardless of rank or position teach undergraduates.

Tulane is the only highly research-intensive school in the country that includes public service as a graduation requirement.

The incoming medical school class, the largest in school history, was selected from more than 8,000 applicants.

American Routes is celebrating 10 years on the air. Tulane recently became a co-producer of the popular radio program.

In their Best of New Orleans 2008 issue, Gambit Weekly lists Tulane as the Best Place to Work Locally.

In 2008, Tulane President Scott Cowen signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, demonstrating Tulane’s commitment to achieve climate neutrality.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet shared life lessons and investment strategies with a group of Tulane students recently.

Six modern sculptures are installed on the uptown campus as part of the Sculpture for New Orleans project.

Tulane is hosting “Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men,” an exhibit that is part of the citywide biennial, Prospect.1 New Orleans.

Tulane raised more than $730 million with Promise and Distinction: The Campaign for Tulane.

Endowed chairs and professorships have increased 116 percent over the past 10 years.

The School of Medicine is opening community health clinics across the city to offer high-quality preventative care to the uninsured.

The Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life renovation was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects in the United States in 2008 by AIA/COTE.

Tulane finished second in the country, receiving an A+ grade in the second annual Glass Ceiling Report Card for providing coaching opportunities for women.

Tulane students are featured in “Architecture School,” the critically acclaimed Sundance Channel documentary series.

The Tulane marching band will march in four parades in 2009, including Rex on Mardi Gras Day.

The Mardi Gras Collection is an online exhibition of classic carnival float designs, ball invitations, photographs and more dating from the 1800s to modern times.

Lisa Jackson, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is a graduate of Tulane. She graduated summa cum laude in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

Tulane standout Matt Forte just completed a stellar rookie season as the Chicago Bears’ starting running back with 1,238 rushing yards and 8 touchdowns.

The Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life at Tulane is among only nine buildings chosen by the AIA to receive the 2009 Institute Honor Award for Architecture.

Tulane professor and American Routes producer Nick Spitzer leads Tulane students in projects with folklorists and oral historians to record and preserve local culture.

Psychology professor Janet Ruscher and a team of students are tracking post-Katrina mental health in New Orleans.

Assistant professor So’Nia Gilkey and students in the School of Social Work are evaluating transitional housing services for the homeless in New Orleans.

Charles Figley, an internationally renowned expert in disaster-related mental health, has joined the Tulane University School of Social Work.

Tulane University will be the host school for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four in 2012.

Political strategist James Carville is teaching a course at Tulane this semester called “The 2008 Presidential Election.”

Dr. David Blask, a widely acclaimed expert on the health implications of exposure to light at night, has joined Tulane University School of Medicine.

Tulane anthropologist John Verano co-authored an article on the ancient Incas’ skill at skull surgery that is being hailed by National Geographic News as a top find in 2008.

Dr. Timothy S. Harlan of the School of Medicine, known as Dr. Gourmet in cyberspace, has launched a new, free online meal planning program.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Tulane for its Community Engagement Classification.