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- Tulane and LPO will present concert in New Orleans featuring Cuban-American composer: Nuestro Pueblo
  Read more on Nola.com, April 11, 2013
- NCI Tech Liaison Jaelle Scheuerman and Newcomb Scholar Olivia Mahler-Haug comment on the gender gap growing for women in technology in the New Orleans CityBusiness
  Download PDF, April 4, 2013
- NCI Executive Director Sally J. Kenney contributes to a discussion about the lack of women in Louisiana politics in The Times-Picayune.
  Read more at Nola.com, February 6, 2013
- NCI Executive Director calls attention to judicial emergencies in a commentary in Women's e-News.
  Read More at Womensenews.org, January 17, 2013
- Newcomb Scholar Briah Fischer reflects on gender and undergraduate leadership in the Association of American Colleges and Universities newsletter On Campus with Women.
  Read More at AACU.org, Fall 2012/Winter 2013
  
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- Executive Director Sally J. Kenney reflects on the 2012 presidential race as part of Feministing.com's Academic Feminist 2012 Election Forum!
  Read More at Feministing.com, November 5, 2012
- Newcomb Scholars program is profiled in the Women in Higher Education Newsletter.‬
  Download a PDF, September 2012
- NPR's profile on Melissa Harris-Perry, founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics
  Read More at NPR.com, July 20, 2012
- CJ Pascoe speaks to Tulane students about bullying, homosexuality
  Read More in The Hullabaloo
- Executive Director Sally Kenney reflects on Independence Day memories on WBOK's Crosstown Conversations. Listen at the 52 minute mark
  Listen here, June 28, 2012
- Editors Susan Tucker and Beth Willinger discuss their new book, Newcomb College, 1886-2006, Higher Education for Women in New Orleans, after the 11:30 mark
  Listen at WWNO.org, May 22, 2012
- Incoming student Ella Weiner blogger reflects on feminism at Tulane and the Newcomb College Institute
  Read More on FeministCampus.org, May 15, 2012
- Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient Marlene Moses (NC '72) is featured in the Nashville Ledger
  Read More on NashvilleLedger.com, May 11, 2012
- NCI's Custard lecture on bullying and homophobia is featured on NOLA.com
  Read More at NOLA.com, April 10, 2012
- NCI's Anna Julia Cooper Project sponsors youth essay contest
  Read More at NOLA.com, April 1, 2012
- Dr. Amy Schalet's Fridays at Newcomb lunchtime lecture on the contrasts between American and Dutch ideas about contraception, abstinence and teen sexuality is featured in the Times-Picayune
  Read More at NOLA.com, March 4, 2012
- Sally Kenney reflects on the lack of women judges on the Indiana Supreme Court
  Download PDF of Article in The Statehouse File, March 2, 2012
- Newcomb Archivist Susan Tucker spoke at LSU about her book, Telling Memories Among Southern Women and the film The Help
  Read More on NBC, February 24, 2012
- Times-Picayune features the Inaugural Anna Julia Cooper Lecture
  Read More at NOLA.com, February 13, 2012
- Newcomb archivist and leader of the culinary history group Susan Tucker selects the city's best king cakes for the Times-Picayune
  Read More at NOLA.com, February 7, 2012
- AAUW profiles former fellow NCI's Melissa Harris-Perry and the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South
  Read More at AAUW Dialog, February 9, 2012
- Newcomb Fellow Nancy Maveety details her research in the Beverly Blair Cook Collection, held by the Newcomb Archives
  Download PDF of Article in Law & Courts, Winter 2012
- Tulane professor Melissa Harris-Perry lands her own MSNBC show
  Read More at NOLA.com, December 26, 2011
- NCI's Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South co-sponsors its first community event, the Fit for a King "Gender and Fair Housing Conference" hosted by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
  Read More at NOLA.com, December 26, 2011
- Newcomb College Institute hosts a delegation from Ginling College, the first women's college established in China
  Download PDF of article in The Times-Picayune, December 8, 2011
- Executive Director Sally Kenney's support of women-owned business in New Orleans is detailed in Forbes Magazine
  Read More on Forbes.com, November 17, 2011
- NCI's student organization's VOX's showing of The Education of Shelby Knox is featured in the Ms. Magazine Blog
  Read More at Ms. Magazine, November 15, 2011
- U.S. News and World Report discusses the Newcomb College Institute in their ranking of Tulane University as a top undergraduate school
  Read More on U.S. News and World Report
- Tulane Builds Strength in Race and Gender Politics through Newcomb College Institute and New Faculty
  Read More in Political Science & Politics, October 2011
- Marie Howe's Vist as the Arons Poet was featured in the Times-Picayune
  Read more at NOLA.com
- NCI hosts National Book Award nominee and other top women authors for reading
  Read more at NOLA.com
- Melissa Harris-Perry discusses New Orleans and her research in the Times-Picayune
  Read more in the Times-Picayune
- Newcomb Archivist Susan Tucker NC'71 talks about her book "Telling Memories Among Southern Women" and "The Help" in the Times-Picayune
  Read more in the Times-Picayune
- Newcomb’s Archivist Susan Tucker (NC ’71) talks about the real stories of African American domestic workers with Ohio Public Radio
  Those who wish to hear the story of these women in their own words, as well as the words of women who employed domestic workers, should turn to Susan Tucker’s book of oral histories Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South (1988). Author of The Help Kathryn Stockett's acknowledgement page mentions Susan's book as inspiration. Susan talks with Ohio Public Radio about her project, a collection of interviews that gives voice to women born between 1882 and 1964, as well as the current film.
  Download Podcast
- Melissa V. Harris-Perry named professor of political science at Tulane University
  Read more in the WIAReport
- Orderly Disorder: Librarian Zinesters in Circulation Tour
  Read more in the ALA Conference 2011 Reports
- Two Parts of Feminist Judicial Scholar Beverly Blair Cook's papers are reunited at Tulane's Newcomb Archives
  Read more in the Women/Politics Summer 2011 Newsletter
- Tulane’s undergraduate women carried on their beautiful commencement tradition of the Daisy Chain at this year’s Under the Oaks ceremony
  Read more at New Wave
- Dee Silverthorn (NC’ 70) is one in a long line of Tulane physiologists, and her contributions to her profession earned her the Newcomb Alumnae Association’s 2011 Outstanding Alumna Award
  Read more at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
- Community leader Sharon Bourgeois (NC ’69) receives the NAA’s Community Service Award for over 40 years of volunteerism in Acadiana
  Read more at Acadiana Gazette
- Alumnae in New York City have the opportunity to see a retrospective on the work of groundbreaking artist Lynda Benglis (NC’64) at the New Museum
  Read More at the New Museum
  Read More at the New York Times
- Award-winning author Valerie Martin met students and alumnae during her campus visit as part of the Zale-Kimmering Writer-in-Residence Program
  Read More at the Hullabaloo
- Newcomb alumna Julie Greenwald (NC ’91) chairwoman and chief operating officer of the Atlantic Records Group, spoke with the New York Times about her management style
  Read More at the New York Times
- APS Member Dee Silverthorn was chosen as the Outstanding Alumnae of 2011 for the Newcomb Alumnae Association (NAA) of Tulane University
  Read more at The Physiologist

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