Sep 2nd, 2008 · When Hurricane Katrina hit, Tulane University's football team ended up sleeping on the floor of a gym in Mississippi, with no power and 90-degree heat. Gustav forced the team to flee again, but its enjoying an upgrade: hotel rooms in Birmingham, Ala., with TV, DVDs and air conditioning. It's even practicing for its weekend game against Alabama.
Sep 1st, 2008 · We're joined by Chris Bynum, staff writer for the New Orleans Times Picayune, and Scott Cowen, the president of Tulane University.
May 13th, 2006 · Tulane University in New Orleans held its graduation ceremony Saturday after a traumatic year. Students who held on through Katrina and nine months of recovery heard advice and admonitions from former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
May 10th, 2006 · Historian Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor at Tulane University, talks about his new book, The Great Deluge. Brinkley left the city just after Hurricane Katrina hit last year, but returned to help with rescue efforts and began collecting oral histories about the catastrophe.
Jan 13th, 2006 · After months of struggle to repair its campus following Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University welcomed students back Thursday. Workers continue to repair an estimated $200 million in damage, and the school has cut more than two dozen Ph.D. programs.
Dec 8th, 2005 · Former Tulane University basketball player Waitari Marsh, an American citizen, has made a dramatic career move: He now plays for a team in Iran. Madeleine Brand speaks with Marsh about living and playing point guard for the Pega Hamedan team in a nation President Bush has dubbed part of the "axis of evil."
Sep 16th, 2005 · Historian and author Douglas Brinkley teaches at Tulane University and was displaced by Hurricane Katrina. He has since returned to New Orleans and begun to document the catastrophe by gathering oral histories -- he hopes to collect as many as 20,000 -- for a book, tentatively titled The Great Deluge.
Sep 4th, 2005 · New Orleans' famed Tulane University, its campus damaged by Katrina, has relocated admissions offices to Richmond, Va. The school will continue recruitment efforts for the spring term. Richard Whiteside, a Tulane vice president who is also dean of admissions, tells Liane Hansen how the school is coping.