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• Movies turn to Tulane as summer production site

  - 2008-06-09

  Five films are currently in the pre-production or filming phase in New Orleans, with several shooting scenes on Tulane University's Uptown campus over the next few weeks. By August, New Orleans will have hosted 13 major film projects including Universal's "Cirque du Freak," World Wrestling Entertainment's "12 Rounds"...

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• Jan. 21-27

  - 2008-01-21

  Jan. 21 Interfaith Service, 10-11:30 a.m. at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 6331 St. Charles Ave. The service is part of the Xavier University of Louisiana, Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans and Dillard University's annual Martin Luther King Week of Peace. The service is free and open...

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• Newcomb College lawsuit could reach Louisiana Supreme Court

  - 2007-10-24

  Relatives of Newcomb College's founder said they will appeal an appellate court judgment in favor of Tulane University in the battle over Tulane's post-Hurricane Katrina closure of Newcomb. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled 2-1 in favor of Tulane, sending the lawsuit back to Civil...

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• Louisiana colleges awarded $27.6M for research

  - 2007-06-29

  The Louisiana Board of Regents' on Thursday approved a plan to award $27.6 million in federal grants to state colleges and universities severely impacted by the 2005 hurricanes. The funding comes from $28.5 million in block grants provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

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• Louisiana colleges could get $27.6M for research

  - 2007-06-28

  The Louisiana Board of Regents' Sponsored Programs Committee on Wednesday approved a plan to award $27.6 million in federal grants to state colleges and universities severely impacted by the 2005 hurricanes. The funding comes from $28.5 million in block grants provided by the U.S. Department of...

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• Putting the pieces together

  - 2007-05-01

  THE BATTLE TO RESTORE NEW-comb College, the women's college of Tulane University (La.), as a degree-granting institution continues in court this month, while efforts to support and fund the fight grow. In March, nine pieces of prized Newcomb pottery drew $27,500 during an auction at New Orleans Auction Galleries,...

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• Rising Sea Greater Danger to Louisiana than Sinking Land, Tulane Study Says

  - 2006-11-14

  To: National DeskContact: Michael Strecker of Tulane University, mstreck@tulane.eduNEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rising sea levels, fueled by melting polar ice caps, may well pose a greater threat to Louisiana than the sinking of its land, a new Tulane University study says.The study appeared in last weeks issue...

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• Tulane improves National Institutes of Health funding in 2005

  - 2006-09-12

  Louisiana's colleges and universities received the nation's 27th largest pot of federal funding for medical research in 2005, the National Institutes of Health announced today. Tulane University led in-state universities by receiving $73.3 million from the NIH, or 40 percent of all the funding awarded to Louisiana institutions...

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• 'All the King's Men' to open at Tulane

  - 2006-09-08

  Movie stars Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo and New Orleanian Patricia Clarkson will attend the world premiere of Columbia Pictures' "All the King's Men" at Tulane University's McAlister Auditorium. "All the King's Men," based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,...

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• A year later: New Orleans institutions take recovery efforts off campus

  - 2006-09-07

  NEW ORLEANS Like the resilient residents, city leaders and community boosters battered and displaced by Hurricane Katrina, officials from the Big Easy's colleges and universities vowed early on to come back. But for Tulane University, one of the biggest challenges to overcome before resuming classes in January was...

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