Expanding Our Orbit

NASA Mural Saratoga Garage

Community gets first look at NASA Lifelines mural on Tulane's downtown campus 

Anyone visiting Tulane's downtown campus will be greeted by a NASA Lifelines mural on the corner of Canal and S. Liberty streets. The mural, both out of this world and earth-focused, is by local artists and is a collaboration between Tulane, the Downtown Development District of the City of New Orleans and NASA Lifelines. 


A professor gives a lecture at the front of a class.

Space Law program takes flight 

Tulane Law School is launching into the final frontier with a new program in space law. The goal is to leverage Tulane’s world-leading strength in maritime law to address related legal issues now emerging with the private exploration of space.  


Alex Suh

Medical student has his eyes on the stars 

As a child growing up in Iowa, Alex Suh, now a graduate of the School of Medicine, loved looking up at the stars. He dreamed of one day working for NASA, and thanks to his time at Tulane, he has been able to fulfill that dream. Suh, who also received his undergraduate degree in biology from Tulane, first interned at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in summer 2022 and returned in fall 2024 as part of NASA’s Aerospace Medicine Clerkship. Through both the internship and the clerkship, he has studied spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome, or SANS, a condition that affects about 70 percent of astronauts.