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12 unusual facts about Tulane University


American Missionary Association

The records of the American Missionary Association are housed at the Amistad Research Center, located at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Consulate-General of Japan, Nashville

Yutaka Horiba, an economics professor at Tulane University, said that while the State of Louisiana had focused on establishing relationships with the oil and gas industry, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had made attempts to establish relations with Japan for a period of several decades before 2007; Horiba believed that this weakened the relationship between Louisiana and the Government of Japan.

Donald W. Tinkle

Tinkle was a student of the renowned herpetologist Fred Cagle, receiving a PhD at Tulane University after conducting studies of freshwater turtles in the southeastern United States with future herpetologist and author J. Whitfield Gibbons as his undergraduate assistant.

Gabriel L. Plaa

Plaa went to teach at Tulane University, then the University of Iowa, before in 1968 he was hired by Université de Montréal (UdeM) as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, a young promising scientist who the previous year had become the first recipient of the newly created Achievement Award of the American Society of Toxicology.

Harry Bailey

Whereas most of his compatriots who specialised in psychiatry sought out their advanced further training in Britain, Bailey worked in Louisiana with Robert Heath of Tulane University.

John L. McLucas

He received a bachelor of science degree from Davidson College in 1941, a master of science degree in physics from Tulane University in 1943, and his doctorate in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1950.

Preston Burke

He completed his pre-medical studies at Tulane University where he pledged Kappa Alpha Psi, and went on to graduate first in his class from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Southern Ivy

This caused Branscomb to call a meeting with the presidents of other Southern private universities in the late 1950s — Southern Methodist University (SMU), Rice University, Duke University, and Tulane University — where Branscomb suggested they try to establish a new sports conference where small, academically inclined private schools could compete.

The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music

It also contained an illustrated 56-page book by Bill C. Malone, a country music historian and professor of history at Tulane University.

TransMarket Group

Mr. Cahnman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from DePaul University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane University.

William Longshaw, Jr.

He studied pharmacology at Tulane University (then named the University of Louisiana) and received a medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1859.

William Tetley

William Tetley, CM, QC (born February 10, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a lawyer and professor of law at McGill University in Montreal, the visiting professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.


Adam Dell

He attended Memorial High School, Tulane University and the University of Texas School of Law.

Ahmos Zu-Bolton

While living in New Orleans he taught English, African-American Studies, and Creative Writing classes at Xavier University, Tulane University and Delgado Community College.

Brad Emaus

Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 18th round of 2004 Major League Baseball draft out of East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia, Emaus instead elected to enroll at Tulane University.

Christopher Catherwood

He currently teaches students from Connecticut College, Tulane, Villanova, Wake Forest and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th century history and also church history.

Cleanth Brooks

From 1963 to 1972, he was awarded honorary doctorates of literature from Upsala College, the University of Kentucky, the University of Exeter, Washington and Lee University, Saint Louis University, Tulane University, and Centenary College NJ (Singh 1991).

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Doc Souchon

His record collection, which included some 2,000 recordings of New Orleans jazz, was bequeathed to the New Orleans Public Library, and many other music-related materials he collected are now in the possession of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, located at Tulane University.

George K. Anderson

He later graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and Tulane University.

Gerard Béhague

He earned a diploma from the latter (1959), a masters degree in musicology from the University of Paris (Sorbonne; 1962), and a Ph.D. in musicology from Tulane University (1966), where he studied under the noted music historian Gilbert Chase.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University.

Joe Curtis

Curtis later served as the head football coach at Tulane University from 1907 to 1908 and at the School of Mines in Golden, Colorado in 1909.

Lachlan Maury Vass

Vass was accepted to Tulane University in the summer of 1942 and enlisted that fall in the Navy V-12 program.

Miranda Grosvenor

As "Miranda," Walton engaged in late-night telephone conversations with such stars as Billy Joel, Warren Beatty, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Eric Clapton, Michael Apted, Bono, Mike Nichols, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ted Kennedy, Johnny Carson, Art Garfunkel, Peter Gabriel, Robert De Niro, Rush Limbaugh, and Richard Gere, telling them that she was a blonde Tulane University student, wealthy socialite, and international model.

Odaline de la Martinez

First, music to a radio play commissioned by BBC Radio 4 (1998), followed by the Hansen Variations for Piano (1999) - commissioned by the Music Department of Tulane University.

Pace Foods

He earned a football scholarship to Tulane University, where he played in the first Sugar Bowl in 1937 and earned his undergraduate degree in science.

Robert Ivy

He currently serves on the advisory board of four architecture schools—Tulane University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University’s Rural Studio and Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

Rosel George Brown

Several of her books were dedicated to her husband W. Burlie Brown, who was a history professor at Tulane University.

Roy Cochran

Cochran wanted to go to Tulane University with a football scholarship, but was persuaded by his older brother Commodore, who won a gold medal at 1924 Summer Olympics in 4x400 m relay, to go to Indiana University Bloomington with a track scholarship.

Sam Zemurray

He and his family made generous donations to Tulane University, the Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School, and to other philanthropic ventures, including the Zionist movement through his personal acquaintance, beginning in the 1920s, with Chaim Weizmann.

Sonia Tetlow

Sonia grew up in New Orleans and graduated from St. Mary's Dominican High School and Tulane University where her sister is currently an associate professor at the School of Law.