While New Orleans is known for hospitality and acceptance, the city also has long-standing Catholic roots and a tenuous history of racial discrimination. These contrasting features make New Orleans’ appeal to minority religious groups unclear. Given recent trends of Islamophobia, I wondered specifically about the Muslim population of New Orleans. Do Muslims feel welcomed in New Orleans, the city where supposedly anything goes?

Anne Caffery, a senior majoring in cell and molecular biology with a public health minor, hopes to go to medical school one day. In the meantime, her interest in research prompted a project in northern India that was made possible by the Jean Danielson Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Scholarship winner Sidney Shea met with Sen. Bill Cassidy at the Boren Convocation and Orientation in Washington D.C.

Learn about the new Honors Summer Study Abroad Program in Berlin.

Economics Senior Cathy Balfe is writing her Honors Thesis on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the mortgage market. In doing so, she is addressing a gap in research that she feels needs to be filled, and making a previous theoretical class project a practical reality.

The Honors Summer Research Program provided an opportunity for 21 students to work with a Tulane professor on a scholarly project for six weeks during this summer. 

Tulane University senior Clare Lister spent her study abroad semester in Tanzania on safari to learn about wildlife conservation, in a remote village homestay to learn about Maasai culture, and at a rainforest reserve to learn about ecology.

Hannah Hoover, a junior pursuing a double major in Anthropology and Classical Studies, has been selected as a 2017 Beinecke Scholar.

Lilth Winkler-Schor, a Newcomb Scholar from Seattle, Washington, won a  prestigious Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in professional development programming to prepare for a career in public service leadership.