School of Liberal Arts September 20 Newsletter

Brian T. Edwards, Dean and Professor

Dear School of Liberal Arts Community,

Our first communication of the academic year comes slightly delayed by emergency preparations for — and recovery from — Hurricane Francine. But as a welcome win, we’ve already made it through a major weather event! And from the other side of the storm, I am particularly excited about this coming year.

This is my seventh year as dean, and I greet every new fall semester with a combination of anticipation for all the activities of the coming months and joy over the return of faculty, staff, and students to our buzzing campus.

I'm exceptionally proud to introduce our newest members of tenure-line & professor of practice faculty, who bring not only expertise and experience to Tulane, but who emerged from national searches that engaged so many top colleagues from the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Meet them below.

In June we launched the much-anticipated first major renovation of Newcomb Hall since its completion in 1918. New event spaces, areas for interdisciplinary programs, enhanced classrooms and fresh collaboration zones will be the purview of the entire community.

Next month will see a new academic event, the Flowerree Symposium, born out of a cross-school partnership with experts in the environmental sciences. Additionally, our STEM2 Studies initiative is a sequence of team-taught courses pairing SLA faculty with several peers from SSE and SOM. Then, our second Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar gets underway with a series of speaking events on the global and domestic contexts for understanding reproductive health. [...]

Read Dean Edwards’ Full Welcome Letter