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Online Articles

October 14, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin - Students Dig New Orleans - Archaeological mysteries that intrigued the likes of a real British archaeologist, Howard Carter, who discovered King Tut's tomb in Egypt, and the fictional adventurer, Indiana Jones, who chased the raiders of a lost ark, are being explored by Tulane students in the TIDES course "Loot, Plunder and Pillage: Ethics in Archaeology and the Art Markets."

October 2, 2009  The New Wave
Brandon Meginley - Students Probe City's Irish Past - New Orleans has a rich and diverse history. The stately Cabildo speaks to its Spanish past. Streets with French names abound. Creole and Cajun foods show up on menus across the city. And the Irish, well, they have their Channel.

September 22, 2009  The New Wave
New Wave Staff  - Cowen Receives Prestigious Carnegie Award - The national spotlight is shining once again on Tulane University, its president and the civic engagement programs that have been a major focus of its students and faculty members since Hurricane Katrina.

September 14, 2009  The New Wave
Mary Cross  - Let's Talk about Sex - Getting teens to talk is never a challenge. Getting teens to talk about sex is a completely different story. Tulane University's Upward Bound program, New Orleans theater company Junebug Productions and the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies recently teamed up to encourage open discussion about healthy relationships and HIV/AIDS in a creative writing and theater course for high school students.

September 3, 2009  The New Wave
Carol J. Schlueter  - Students in Prime Time Spot - Talk about prime time — when Tulane football debuts on national television this Friday (Sept. 4), Charles Gaspard's New Orleans family will have double the excitement. Not only will the junior wide receiver be on the field for the Green Wave, he also will be in a television commercial about Tulane that airs on ESPN during the game.

September 2, 2009  The New Wave
Mary Cross  -  Students Make it Right - By 8 a.m. on Saturday (Aug. 29), a sea of blue- and green-clad students poured into the Lavin-Bernick Center on the uptown campus, anticipating their day of service for the 19th Annual Outreach Tulane. On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the event drew approximately 1,000 Tulane students who volunteered at locations throughout the New Orleans area.

August 16, 2009  The Star online
Sarah Chew  - Fruitful partnership - IT was an interesting exchange of sorts, research expertise for real life internship experience. Ten students from Tulane University's (Tulane) School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans in the United States (US), came to Malaysia for a month to help out in community projects, thanks to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Universiti Malaya (UM) and Tulane to facilitate student exchange and internships.

August 11, 2009  The New Wave
News Splash - Community Partners  The Tulane Center for Public Service and the Innovative Learning Center have joined forces to create the Center for Public Service Information System, an online forum that brings public service agencies and university faculty and students together.

July 28, 2009  The New Wave
Fran Simon  - Year of Service Opens New Vistas - When Stephanie O'Brien moved to New Orleans from New England last November, she had signed on for a one-year stint as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) member. She had never been to New Orleans. Now O'Brien says she can't imagine leaving the Crescent City when her service ends.

April 24, 2009  The New Wave
Brandon Meginley  - Class Studies New Orleans Youth- Every Monday this semester, Michael Cunningham sits amid a circle of upper-level undergraduates and leads a discussion on the developmental psychology of New Orleans youth. Each week he asks his students to consider a question that is central to much of his own research: what are the circumstances and influences that allow children to succeed in life?

April 2, 2009  The New Wave
Kathryn Hobgood  - Professors Win Early Career Awards- Two professors in the School of Science and Engineering have received prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. The grants will allow W T. Godbey and James Donahue to firmly establish their own independent research laboratories at Tulane University.

April 1, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis  - Students Break With Tradition This Spring- Traditionally, college spring break has been a time for fun on the beach or a trip home to visit family. Some Tulane students, however, are trading in their beach towels for a chance to help others in need. The Alternative Break program, coordinated by the Tulane Center for Public Service, organizes student-volunteer opportunities during the university’S spring break — and there has been no shortage of interested students.

March 27, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis  - Students Mentor Yourng Writers - Fifth- and sixth-graders at Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans are starting a school newspaper with the help of Tulane University students enrolled in “The Teaching of Writing,” a course that introduces college students to the theories and practices of writing instruction. T. R. Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of English, says it’s an idea that he’d like to share with other colleges around the country.

March 26, 2009  The New Wave
Jane DiIorio  - Student Mural Brings Wetlands to Life - Their bodies extended in awkward positions and their gazes fixed pensively on the wall, Tulane students in mural drawing and painting class are creating a panoramic vision of Louisiana in one broad corridor of the Benjamin Franklin Elementary Mathematics and Science School.

March 11, 2009  The New Wave
Kathryn Hobgood  - Biomedical Engineering Students Think Big for the Disabled -At the 20th annual Biomedical Engineering Design Show on Saturday (March 7), senior Tulane students debuted their designs for devices to assist people with disabilities. Program founder David Rice proclaimed the competition “the best showing ever,” as his students displayed a wheelchair-enhancing device, a playground obstacle course for wheelchairs and walkers and different classroom systems designed to make life easier for students with disabilities as well as their teachers.

February 25, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis  - Talking About the Hip-Hop Generation-Tough questions about healthy relationships and HIV are being answered for sixth-grade students at Langston Hughes Academy Charter School by Tulane students enrolled in the course, “Hip-Hop, HIV/AIDS, and African and African Diaspora Studies.”

February 13, 2009  Tulane Talk
Scott Cowen  - Tulane's longtime commitment to public service, which has gained greater prominence and purpose post-Katrina, received some national recognition this week, for which we should all be proud.

February 11, 2009  The New Wave
Mike Strecker  - Tulane Honored for Service to Community -The Corporation for National and Community Service has honored Tulane University for exemplary efforts and service to America’s communities with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

January 30, 2009  The New Wave
Mike Strecker - Fall ’09 Applications Shatter Record -Nearly 40,000 high school seniors from around the country have applied to be part of Tulane University’s 1,400-member fall 2009 freshman class, shattering last year’s record-breaking number of 34,125 applicants.

January 13, 2009  The New Wave
Fran Simon -  City’s Recovery Blossoms With Volunteer Help - Bridget Smith is a matchmaker. Since Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have flooded into New Orleans offering their time and talent to help the city rebuild and recover. Smith, senior program coordinator of HelpNOLA at Tulane University, matches volunteers to jobs that need to be done.

January 8, 2009  The New Wave
New Wave Staff - Tulane Merits Carnegie Community Engagement Classification - Recognizing the ongoing commitment of Tulane University to public service and community service initiatives, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Tulane for its Community Engagement Classification, a list of 195 U.S. educational institutions that are focused on outreach.

January 5, 2009  The New Wave
Fran Simon -  Simply Excellent -Donning a Santa hat, Tulane President Scott Cowen set off at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 22, to deliver a holiday surprise to a select group of staff members who give of themselves all year long. Each of this year’s recipients of the annual Staff Excellence Awards was pleasantly caught off guard by a visit from the university president, who arrived bearing a check for $1,000.

December 9, 2008  The New Wave
Mary Ann Travis - Public Service Shows Off -Dylan Buffalo can tell it like it is. And that’s exactly what the Tulane senior did at the Center for Public Service’s showcase on Tuesday (Dec. 2). At the event in the Lavin-Bernick Center, Buffalo shared his experiences this fall as an intern investigator with the Orleans Public Defenders.

November 21, 2008  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis, Students Learn the Legal System, Up Close - Professor of sociology Martha Huggins takes her students from the classroom to the courthouse to help Orleans Parish public defenders secure due process for the poor. In the “Ethnographies of Crime” course, taught by Huggins for the first time this fall, students are introduced to the images and realities of crime.

November 5, 2008  The New Wave
Arthur Nead, Modern Sculptures Transform Tulane Quad - The Tulane University uptown campus stretching from Gibson Hall to Freret Street is being transformed into an open-air art gallery with the installation of six large modern sculptures this week.

October 27, 2008  The New Wave
Fran Simon, Students Connect with Lego and Climate - Just as Tulane students have done since 2004, four Tulane students are helping elementary-age school children prepare for a FIRST LEGO League competition. But this year the intense coaching has a twist: They are coaching in French as well as English....

October 24, 2008 The New Wave 
Fran Simon,  Public Service Scholars Head to Crescent City - The Tulane Center for Public Service is hosting the eighth annual International Research Conference on Service Learning and Community Engagement from Saturday through Tuesday (Oct. 25–28).

October 23, 2008 The New Wave 
Fran Simon,  Shifting Sands on Grand Isle - Students measuring the loss of sand on the barrier island of Grand Isle, La., are seeing coastal erosion happen before their eyes. Dean Moosavi takes students in his physical geology course to the spit of land on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico where they are observing rapid land loss in southern Louisiana.

October 17, 2008  New Orleans Secondline
Brett Schlesinger, Brand New Orleans, Please Contact Seller - The work done so far to re-establish New Orleans has been a lopsided success. Streetcars resume as tour guides, funneling visitors past rejuvenated landscapes and southern style estates of the Garden District. If the tracks shifted by only a block, tourists would witness these mansions take on the form of façades, hiding the slum and squalor in their own backyards.

October 9, 2008 The New Wave 
Fran Simon,  Commitment to Service: A National Obligation - “National service should be a mandatory requirement for all U.S. citizens,” said Mark Schneider, who served as director of the U.S. Peace Corps from 1999 until 2001. He spoke to students on the uptown campus on Tuesday (Oct. 7) about the value of national service in an interdependent world.

October 6, 2008 The Times-Picayune Editorial Blog
The Times-Picayune editorial staff,  Tulane exceeds expectations - Tulane University's $700 million fundraising goal would have been ambitious at any time, but the public phase of the campaign began just months before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

 

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