NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet (bah-KAY), actress Blythe Danner and U.S. Rep. John Lewis will receive honorary doctorates at Tulane University's...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University in New Orleans has announced that a leading scholar of Latin American literature will lead the university's undergraduate college.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Universities in New Orleans are presenting two days of discussions about climate change.

On Friday, Tulane University is holding a conference titled "Democracy in Retreat?...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three people have been arrested for a dorm fire at Tulane University in New Orleans that a campus group says was politically motivated.

GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a Tulane University student was killed at an Interstate 10 rest stop in Mississippi when two tires came loose from a passing tractor-trailer and struck...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University is opening its new "Sport and Social Justice Speaker Series" this week with a movie about the first integrated Little League game.

A news release says the free event Wednesday evening will include a screening and discussion of "Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story."

The documentary is about Florida's 1955 Little League state championship between the all-black Pensacola Jaycees and the all-white Orlando Kiwanis, and the players' thoughts 60 years later.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University's spring commencement speaker will be Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Tulane President Mike Fitts said in a Thursday statement that Cook represents the kind of success the university wants for all of its graduates.

Cook, who grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, was a Fuqua Scholar at Duke University where he earned a master's degree in business administration. He also holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Tulane University board member has pledged $5 million to endow a professorship that covers multiple areas, the school said in a news release Thursday.

The university said it will work with Phyllis Taylor to decide the area of interdisciplinary study for the new presidential chair named for her.

The grant will cover the salary and other expenses directly associated with the professor's academic work.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Novels by two Tulane University professors have been chosen for next year's One Book, One City reading and discussion programs in New Orleans and Philadelphia.

One Book, One Philadelphia chose Jesmyn Ward's novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing," while One Book, One New Orleans will feature "Vengeance" by Zachary Lazar, a Tulane news release said.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University's business and writing programs will benefit from a $3.5 million gift.

The school said in a news release Wednesday the money is coming from Carole B. Boudreaux and her husband, Kenneth.

The gift creates a scholarship fund for the school's A.B. Freeman School of Business graduate students. It was also create the Kenneth B. Boudreaux MBA '67 Professorship in Finance. The school said $2 million will go for those efforts.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government is providing $2.3 million to study whether clearing up blighted property in New Orleans reduces teen and family violence.

BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) — Justin Mann dreams about fish.

In one particularly terrifying dream he sees row after row of metallic shelving, stacked with glass jars filled with fish specimens, topple over like mammoth dominoes.

The nightmare strikes a little close to reality for Mann, who has for the past five years been in charge of organizing, cataloguing and upkeeping 7 million fish specimens.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University is holding a free conference about black women's health Friday and Saturday. The topic is "Matters of the Heart: Cardiovascular Disease, Health and Healing."

Most sessions of the third Biennial Black Women's Health Conference will be held at Myra Clara Rogers Memorial Chapel, with the keynote luncheon Saturday at the Lavin-Bernick Center.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University has named a new police chief.

The private New Orleans university announced Thursday that Kirk Bouyelas (boy-AHL'-ess) will take on the job starting Oct. 15.

Bouyelas was part of the New Orleans Police Department for 32 years. More recently, he has served as chief of investigations for the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University is requiring that all new students study racial diversity in what is the first change to the school's undergraduate curriculum in a dozen years.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A New Orleans university is closing a satellite campus in Mississippi.

WLOX-TV reports Tulane University is closing its Biloxi campus, citing enrollment of just 92 students.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Tulane University scientist has won a four-year, $1.6 million grant for a study he hopes will reveal the molecular basis for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A researcher in New Orleans has a five-year, $1.8 million grant to study how the brain processes sound.

Tulane University assistant professor Hai Huang (HY HWONG) says he hopes his research in mice will improve understanding of healthy hearing and lay the groundwork for treating disorders. Hearing loss affects about 40 million Americans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University says it broke its previous fundraising record with more than $150 million donated during its 2017-2018 fiscal year.

In a Tuesday news release the private New Orleans university said it received gifts from 25,000 donors, including nearly 6,000 first-time donors.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University has won a $10 million grant to study school reform across the country.

The New Orleans Advocate reports the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded the five-year grant.

It will pay for research on how voucher programs, charter schools and other choice programs in cities can help disadvantaged students.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story July 21 about a pledge to the Tulane Brain Institute, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the foundation making the pledge, the Priddy Family Foundation, was founded by the parents of Tulane Alumnus Robert Priddy. The foundation was founded by Robert Priddy.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Tulane University-based research group says New Orleans public schools saw sustained improvement in achievement scores, high school graduation rates and students' college performance after Hurricane Katrina.

The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans study credits reforms implemented during a state takeover of most of the city's schools with the improvements.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University's Cowen Institute is launching a new campaign to increase the number of New Orleans public school students who complete federal financial aid applications.

A Tulane news release says the institute will work with public schools, universities, nonprofit groups, education leaders and policy makers on the project. The aim is to develop citywide incentives and methods to track students' completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University in New Orleans soon will have a new dean.

A university news release says Brian Edwards will assume the post July 1.

Edwards is currently the Crown Professor in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University, where he also is a professor of English, comparative literary studies and American studies.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will deliver the keynote address for Tulane University's Commencement ceremonies next month.

Tulane President Mike Fitts says Ward joined Tulane's faculty as an associate professor of English in 2014 and has become a literary icon by winning the award twice, putting her in the company of writers such as William Faulkner, John Updike and Saul Bellow.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three Marines based in New Orleans face rape charges after a Tulane University student and her friend reported a group of men assaulted them earlier this month.

Police say 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Alexander Davenport faces two counts of first-degree rape; 18-year-old Pvt. First Class Jared Anderson faces one count of first-degree rape and 18-year-old Lance Cpl. Antonio Landrum was arrested for third-degree rape.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An endowed scholarship fund has been established at Tulane University in New Orleans in memory of a student who died of brain cancer in March of 2017.

Tulane announced in a news release that the Charles Ellison Scholarship Endowed Fund will provide scholarship support for Tulane undergraduate students with both high academic achievement and financial need.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A team of Tulane University archaeologists and an international group of researchers have uncovered a network of thousands of ancient Mayan structures previously hidden for centuries under the thick canopy of the northern Guatemalan jungle.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University has announced a new program offering biotech executives, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs a temporary home base when they visit New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Tulane University professor is getting a $3.7 million, three-year military grant to help develop computing technology.

The university announced Tuesday that professor Michael Mislove, chair of Tulane's computer science department, received the grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Tulane University professor has received a $1.7 million Department of Defense grant for blood vessel research.

The New Orleans university says in a Tuesday news release that the grant went to Stryder Meadows, a cell and molecular biology professor.

The grant will fund research into a type of defect in arteries, veins and capillaries from a genetic disorder known as Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University scientists will get $12 million for animal studies to test drug combinations to treat Lassa fever and to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus, which can attack internal organs and cause bleeding from the mouth, nose and other places.

Tulane's medical school says a team led by Robert Garry is getting grants from the National Institutes of Health for two five-year studies.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University scientists will get $12 million for animal studies to test drug combinations to treat Lassa fever and to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus, which can attack internal organs and cause bleeding from the mouth, nose and other places.

Tulane's medical school says a team led by Robert Garry is getting grants from the National Institutes of Health for two five-year studies.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University says a $2 million gift is bringing a European energy law scholar to New Orleans, where he will become founding director of a new Tulane Center for Energy Law and be the first to hold the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law.

Law school Dean David Meyer says in a statement that Kim Tallus and Sirja-Leena Penttinen will be coming in January, and Penttinen will be the new center's assistant director.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University is getting federal grants that will more than double its Upward Bound program to help high-school students who hope to become the first person in their family to go to college.

The university says in a news release that the U.S. Department of Education will provide two grants totaling $2.5 million over five years. Officials say the program will go from 50 students to 112.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man has been arrested after authorities say two Tulane University students were held at gunpoint near the university's campus.

News outlets report 27-year-old Joseph Guillot Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of robbery.

New Orleans Police Department spokesman Aaron Looney says the students were robbed in separate stick-ups that were both close to the Tulane Medical Center and the university's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University says it will be honoring actress Helen Mirren as well as hometown jazz musician Branford Marsalis with honorary degrees during this year's commencement ceremony.

The university says Mirren will receive the degree for her stage and screen work as well as work she's done to help disadvantaged youth, orphaned kids and others.

The university praised Marsalis for his musical achievements and his efforts to help rebuild New Orleans after 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist, is scheduled to deliver a Tulane University lecture on her life's work.

School officials say the talk is planned for 7 p.m. March 16 at the Dixon Hall auditorium. A question-and-answer session and a book signing are also planned.

Tulane said in a statement that Goodall is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, which is marking its 40th anniversary this year.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University in New Orleans has announced that actress Helen Mirren will deliver the keynote address to graduates at its 2017 commencement.

The ceremony is set for May 20 in the Superdome. Tulane's Monday news release says the English actress also will receive an honorary degree at the ceremony.

Mirren is known for a variety of roles on television, on stage and in movies, including an Oscar-winning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 film "The Queen."

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As many as 1,700 public school teachers in Louisiana have left classrooms because of the state's tougher tenure law, according to a new report released Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University in New Orleans says it has received two anonymous gifts of $5 million each to recruit faculty members.

The university says in a Tuesday news release that the gifts will establish two presidential chairs. Each will be filled by professors known for teaching and research that combine different fields of knowledge.

The professors will serve university-wide, with joint appointments between schools.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. David Vitter's papers from his tenure in Congress will be preserved at Tulane University.

The university's Louisiana Research Collection announced it will house the documents, which include materials Vitter accumulated during his time as both a member of the Senate and of the U.S. House.

The files include correspondence, briefing books, constituent mail, grant and project requests, daily schedules, news clippings and photographs.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The percentage of public school dollars going to school operation costs such as transportation and administrative salaries is higher in New Orleans — and the percentage devoted to actual instruction is lower — than in other districts that don't rely so heavily on charter schools, according to a study released Tuesday.

MADISON, Miss. (AP) — Tulane University is planning to close its campus in central Mississippi.

University President Michael A. Fitts and the dean of continuing studies, Suri Duitch, emailed students Thursday to say the School of Continuing Studies in the Jackson suburb of Madison will close at the end of the spring semester. The change awaits approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, The Clarion-Ledger reported (http://on.thec-l.com/2j09mdN).

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Teams from Australia, New York and California are among five finalists in Tulane University's $1 million contest to find ways to fight "dead zones" where water holds too little oxygen to support life. There are hundreds of such areas worldwide, including one that forms each summer off Louisiana's coast.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 22-year-old man who shot a Tulane University medical student who intervened during an attempted kidnapping has pleaded guilty in an agreement that will see him serve 50 years in prison.

Euric Cain entered his plea Monday to charges that included the attempted first-degree murder of Peter Gold, the medical student who thwarted Cain's attempted kidnapping and rape of a woman on Nov. 20, 2015.