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From the New Wave "South America meets American South"
South America meets American South By Alicia Duplessis Jasmin “The rhythmic sound of instruments native to northeastern Brazil joined in…
Article from Tulane New Wave- "Tulane conference draws top scholars on China and Cuba"
“China and Cuba survived the fall of communism in the last decade of the 20th century by employing different strategies…
Tulane New Wave: Rare archaeological casts rediscovered in storage
“The unassuming former ammunition shed in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, held a secret. Hidden inside its depths were rare 19th and…
Longtime love inspires gift to institute
This story originally appeared in Tulane’s New Wave. By: Mary Sparacello “msparace@tulane.edu”:sendto:msparace@tulane.edu High school sweethearts Yvonne and Lt. Col. Clinton…
Brazilian Music Expresses People's Struggles
By: Mary Ann Travis mtravis@tulane.edu The country of Brazil has a distinctiveness all its own. Its citizens speak Portuguese, for…
Dance Festival Links Traditions to Africa
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu As instructors for the 2011 New Orleans Dance Festival, Danys ‘La Mora‘ Pérez and her…
Lessons in Solidarity From Costa Rica
By: Michaela Gibboni newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Tulane student Michaela Gibboni tutors Costa Rican boys in a program to reduce school dropout…
Lesson From the Flood
By: Nick Marinello Mr4@tulane.edu Photo: The Bonnet Carre spillway (shown in the upper left) is located along the Mississippi River…
Student Rewarded for Work With Immigrants
By: Carol J. Schlueter cjs@tulane.edu Photo: May law grad Rosanna Eugenio earns a pro bono award from the Louisiana State…
The Border: Hot Topic for Gallery Exhibit
By: Teresa Parker Farris newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Footprints cover the desert sands on the border of the United States and Mexico…
Campus Latino Community Comes Together
Octavio Barajas, right, a doctoral student, and Efren Lopez, a first-year architecture student, talk about their plans for GENTE, a…
MBA Students Take Time for Public Service
Pupils at a Buenos Aires elementary school thank MBA student Jamin Butler, center, after his volunteer work. (Photos provided by…
She's Like, 'Language Is So Cool'
Judith Maxwell, professor of anthropology and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, is fascinated by the way language lives…
Coffee History Perks Up Lesson Plans
Learning about the coffee trade and incorporating that information into lesson plans was the focus of a workshop for area…
Race and Place
This book emerged from a 2004 conference held at Tulane for international scholars interested in the African diaspora to Central…
Students Air Issues on Latino Community
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: Casey Love, a professor of practice in political science, teaches courses on comparative politics, Mexican…
Mixed Bag of Venezuelan Leader's Regime
Michaela Gibboni newwave@tulane.edu Photo by Jose Ibanez Credit and blame ‘” Hugo Chávez deserves both. Experts presented their perspectives on…
A Not-So-Watery World
Water is often a wasted asset, says climate change researcher Rômulo S.R. Sampaio, and that may send it from abundance…
Travel Dreams Come True
Holding the flag of Panama, these Spanish students at Sojourner Truth Academy are looking forward to a service-learning trip to…
Getting It Done in Disease-ravaged Haiti
Getting It Done in Disease-ravaged Haiti By: Madeline Vann newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Planning their work in Haiti are, from right, Carl…
Researcher Returns to Jamaica to Combat HIV
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: Katherine Andrinopoulos, assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, specializes…
Literacy Tutors Form Friendships
By: Michaela Gibboni newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Tulane first-year student Aly Kahan, left, tutors Ahmadou, a native of the West African country…
Miners' Mental Health Remains Bright
By: Joseph Halm newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Miner Raul Bustos, left, receives an embrace after being rescued from the San Jose gold…
Haiti Beyond the News
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: Wedsly Guerrier, a native of Haiti, is a visiting assistant professor teaching courses on…
Gates Foundation Funds Haitian Aid Study
By: Mike Strecker mstreck@tulane.edu Photo: Dr. Elizabeth Bellino, a clinical instructor of pediatric infectious diseases at Tulane, cares for a…
Universities Partner With Honduras
By: New Wave Staff newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Signing a memorandum of understanding are, from left, Tulane President Scott Cowen; Honduran President…
Shifting Sands
By: Belinda Lacoste newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Geologist Stephen Nelson, center, conducts a Hurricane Katrina field trip, stopping at the floodwall along…
Travels with the Daykeeper
By: Nick Marinello mr4@tulane.edu Photo: Anthropologist Judith Maxwell, right, and co-investigator Ajpub‘ Garcia Ixmata‘ look over the Guatemalan coastline while…
Images of the Old Southwest
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Photo: This image, Leisure Time at George Pepper‘s Tent, is part of the new museum…
A Revolution Under Way in South America
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Director Oliver Stone, left, and Venezuela president Hugo Chávez, right, meet news media during…
Storm Killed Half Billion Amazon Trees
By: Keith Brannon kbrannon@tulane.edu A single, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a…
Another World Close to Home
By: Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu Photo: Law professor Oliver Houck says he never set out to write Down on the Batture,…
Public Health School Hosts Haitian Leader
By: Dee Boling newwave@tulane.edu The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will host Dr. Alex Larsen, minister of…
Carnival Swings Into Summer
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Guest artists from Brazil, Cuba and Haiti will lead dance and drumming classes for all…
An Angry Planet?
By: Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu This decade has started off with a bang ‘” massive earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China,…
Giving Back and Changing Lives
By: Belinda Lacoste newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Volunteering with the Peace Corps in Jamaica, Carrie Giordano Eklund worked in a school, promoting…
Students Bring Health Care to Hispaniola
By: Arthur Nead anead@tulane.edu Tulane medical and public health students are traveling to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola this summer…
Birds Are Sitting Ducks to Spewing Oil
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: A pelican gets cleaned up by a member of the Louisiana State Wildlife Response…
Walk for Haiti
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu The Tulane School of Social Work, together with the Run for Third organization, will host…
A Mission to the Mountains
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu In the second of two spring trips this year to the northwestern corner of Honduras, students…
Off the Island!
By: Arthur Nead anead@tulane.edu In an editorial in the May 2010 issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Tulane…
Fiesta for Fine Faculty
By: Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu Photo: Ronna Burger, left, and April Brayfield receive recognition as outstanding members of the liberal arts…
T-Shirts for Haiti
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: First-year student Alexandra Yarost leads her peers in a campaign to raise money for…
Celebration of Latin Culture
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Five different groups will perform Latin music at Sunday’s (April 18) free festival at Laurence…
Summer Studies in Costa Rica
By: Mary Cross newwave@tulane.edu A group of Tulane students will be heading to Costa Rica in June for five weeks…
Brazilian Beat
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Coming to the uptown campus are a performance, workshops and discussion featuring the Latin Grammy-nominated…
Architecture School Hosts Latin American Symposium
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu The Tulane School of Architecture will present “EN EL AULA: Beyond Latin American Architecture,” a…
Rivers, Royalty and the Maya
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu New research being conducted at the important “river cities” of the ancient Maya civilization will…
Did Gangster Al Capone Serve a Social Good?
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: Martha Huggins, sociology professor, teaches “Gangsters, Gangs and Organized Crime,” a course examining the…
Focus on Brazilian Films
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu A film series devoted to the exhibition and exploration of works by women filmmakers from…
Professor Studies Health Care of Cuba
By: Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu Photo: In a Cuban clinic, Tia Tucker, right, examines a patient. Tucker is a Tulane public…
Healing the Wounds of Haiti
By: Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu Photo courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Bellino. Dr. Elizabeth Bellino, a pediatrician with a public health degree…
Teach-In on Haiti
New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu In response to the devastation following the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti, students in the Tulane…
Fundraisers to Help Haiti
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Events on Friday and Saturday will be raising funds for Haitian earthquake victims. Tulane Latin…
Unique Challenges for Aid Community in Haiti
By: Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, leveling the capital city of Port-au-Prince, has created a humanitarian…
Cuban Images, Art Come to Campus
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Tulane’s participation in the citywide ¡Sí Cuba! celebration begins on Saturday (Jan. 16) as two…
Excitement Builds for ¡Sí Cuba! Events
By: Carol J. Schlueter cjs@tulane.edu The plan to bring an exhibit by Cuban artists to the Newcomb Art Gallery expanded…
'We're a School of Creativity'
By: Carol J. Schlueter cjs@tulane.edu The library of the Tulane president’s home on Dec. 8 was filled with displays of…
Environmental Cases Make History
By: Nick Marinello mr4@tulane.edu In environmental circles, “Storm King” is shorthand for a landmark legal battle that served as a…
Healthy Food for Healthy Neighborhoods
By: Keith Brannon kbrannon@tulane.edu The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has renewed a five-year, $5.3 million grant for the…
Cuba Scholars Convene on Campus
By: Brandon Meginley newwave@tulane.edu New Orleans has strong historical ties to Cuba. In the early 19th century, an influx of…
Day of the Dead
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday that celebrates the time of the…
$12.3 Million Gift for Latin American Studies
By: Mike Strecker mstreck@tulane.edu (Photo: Ludovico Feoli, Director of the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and Executive Director of…
Poverty & Inequality Expert Joins Stone Center
By: Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu Renowned economist Nora Lustig, whose field of study focuses on poverty and inequality, has joined the…
Is it a Coup in Honduras?
Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu Photo: Anthony Pereira, Professor and chair of the department of Political Science, talks about the possible outcome…
Guatemala Through Their Eyes
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Members of the Tulane University Innovative Learning Center are on location shooting audio and video content…
A New Look at Cuba
Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu Photo: The Obama administration has lifted some restrictions on travel to Cuba, a move that Ana López,…
Students Take Pulse of Brazilian Culture
Tricia Travis newwave@tulane.edu When our group of Tulane students reached South America for the Summer in Brazil study program, the…
Weiss Presidential Fellows Expect No Easy Answers
Judith Maxwell and Justin Wolfe share a teaching philosophy: They donÃ¢’‘¬’“¢t look for the Ã¢’‘¬Å“right answerÃ¢’‘¬Â from their students. The…