In between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, the next virtual Elk Place Health Spot from the Tulane University School of Social Work and Empowering Change Task Force features a conversation about families. We will have community advocates presenting aspects of this topic, including the ways children experience attachment, trauma, and resilience along with an open discussion and participant Q&A. The webinar will be held on May 27, 2021 from noon to 1:30 pm CT, and advanced registration via the link below is required.

MARI-CFA Spring 2021 Archaeology Speaker Series

Thinking Like "Dragnet" and the Peopling of the Americas

Dr. Shane Miller, Mississippi State University

Friday, April 23, 12:00PM CDT

Zoom link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/92906675708

(revised Zoom link, updated 4/23/2021, 10:45AM CDT)

Jillian Hishaw is the author of Systematic Land Theft, her new textbook and serves as an agricultural attorney. She is also the founder and CEO of F.A.R.M.S. Inspired by her own family’s land loss, this international non-profit provides technical and legal assistance to small farmers while reducing hunger in the farmer’s community. Systematic Land Theft focuses on how the theft of tribal land and the inhumane use of enslaved Africans in the U.S. led to Whites owning over 95 percent of U.S. land.

Please join us for a Health Sciences Research Days affiliated lecture, Scientific Integrity in the Face of Undue Foreign Government Influence, presented by Tulane's Export Controls and Foreign Influence Compliance Officer, Christopher Dressel.

ZOOM: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/97637373863?pwd=UjNaMXVHbTE2QkFDYSt0ai9GSEx1dz… 

Join us on April 22nd at 5:30pm for a talk with Dr. Eugene Richardson on his recently published book, Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Dr. Richardson is an infectious disease specialist and anthropologist focused on biosocial approaches to epidemic disease prevention, containment, and treatment throughout Africa. The subject of this talk will cover the colonial roots of epidemiology and its role in global inequities.

Newcomb-Tulane College is proud to present the 2021 Honors Thesis Forum, which showcases the work of many of this year’s graduating Honors Thesis writers. The 2021 Honors Thesis Forum will be held in a primarily virtual format, with live Zoom sessions scheduled in the evenings of Tuesday, April 20- Thursday, April 22 and during the day on Sunday, April 25. In-person presentations, which will also be livestreamed via Zoom, will be held on Sunday, April 25.

The complete schedule and details on how to access the presentations can be found here:

Newcomb-Tulane College is proud to present the 2021 Honors Thesis Forum, which showcases the work of many of this year’s graduating Honors Thesis writers. The 2021 Honors Thesis Forum will be held in a primarily virtual format, with live Zoom sessions scheduled in the evenings of Tuesday, April 20- Thursday, April 22 and during the day on Sunday, April 25. In-person presentations, which will also be livestreamed via Zoom, will be held on Sunday, April 25.

Conflict over the tenure of Haitian president Jovenel Moise represents a critical moment for Haitian democratic society. The discussion brings together a panel of homegrown experts, each with a distinct disciplinary perspective, to discuss the Moise power grab, the opposition reaction, and the future of democracy in Haiti.

For more information about each of the panelists’ research and their respective institutions:

Chantalle Verna, Ph.D. (NC '96)

Tulane Health Sciences Research Days 2021 invites you to our Distinguished Lecture, What is the Matrix? Novel Therapeutic Targets for Ischemic Stroke, Dementia and COVID-19, presented via Zoom by Gregory Bix, MD, PhD, FAHA, Director of the Tulane Clinical Neuroscience Research Center, Director of the COVID-19 Biobank and Library at Tulane (COBALT), Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical and Translational Research, Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Vada Odom Reynolds Chair in Stroke Research