Architecture Program Report Tulane University New Orleans ...

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After World War II, Tulane's Graduate School and the professional
programs continued to grow. The University was elected to the
Association of American Universities, a select group of some 50
universities with "pre-eminent programs of graduate and professional
education and scholarly research." The Tulane Medical Center was
established in 1969 to include the School of Medicine, the School of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the Tulane University Medical
Center Hospital and Clinic. The medical center also administers the
Tulane Regional Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana; the
F. Edward Hebert Riverside Research Center in Belle Chasse, Louisiana;
and the International Collaboration in Infectious Diseases Research
(ICIDR) Program in Cali, Colombia.
Like all schools, however, Tulane is most distinguished by the
accomplishments of its students and Tulane's students are routinely
honored with the most prestigious fellowships and scholarships. No
college in the United States has in the past decade received more
Watson Fellowships than Newcomb College; during the 1980s and early
1990s, Tulane ranked ninth in the number of Rhodes Scholarships
awarded and ninth in Marshall Scholarships. Intellect flourishes at
Tulane. Its environment combines the excitement of multiple juxtaposed
disciplines, the intimacy of a small college, and the academic resources
of one of the nation's premier academic institutions. Tulane is proud to
offer the diversity of a large university, which allows students the
opportunity to explore many fields of interest. On the other hand, the
separate schools and colleges remain small enough to retain a sense of
intimacy and identity.
Tulane has a long tradition of leadership in higher education, both
regionally and nationally. The university is one of fifty-six members of the
prestigious Association of American Universities. Tulane founded the Deep
South's first schools of architecture, medicine (1834), and social work
(1927). The School of Law (1847) is the twelfth oldest in the nation.
Newcomb College, founded in 1886, was the first degree-granting women's
college to be associated with an American university. Tulane Middle
American Research Institute, established in 1924, has been a pioneer in
Central American archaeology and anthropology. The University is
internationally renowned for its Latin American Studies Program.
The conjunction of so many disciplines on one campus creates a lively
academic atmosphere. Tulane's speaker programs, film series, stage
productions, art exhibitions, and music performances make the university a
major cultural center. At the same time, the relatively small size of the
individual colleges, particularly the School of Architecture, preserves an
identity and intimacy for the student that is more typical of a liberal arts
college than a large university.
Research in many disciplines has flourished at Tulane through the
establishment of centers such as the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin
American Studies, the Middle American Research Institute, the Tulane/
Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, the Murphy Institute, the
Tulane Cancer Center, the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy and the