Record $160M gift renames public health school for Celia Scott Weatherhead
In September, Tulane celebrated the momentous announcement that the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine would be named for alumna Celia Scott Weatherhead, in honor of her record-breaking lifetime support of more than $160 million to the university. Weatherhead’s commitment — the largest in Tulane’s history — continues her legacy of providing funding to attract world-leading faculty researchers to Tulane and ensures that top students from all backgrounds can attend the university.
" I am thrilled to support the university’s goals and long-term strategy for educating public health professionals, empowering groundbreaking research and building a healthier world, starting with the city of New Orleans, but aiming for global results. "
— Celia Scott Weatherhead
Myrna L. Daniels $17.2M gift to fund healthy aging initiatives
A $17.2 million gift from Newcomb College alumna Myrna L. Daniels will fund geriatric and healthy aging initiatives, clinical research, a faculty chair in geriatrics and capital improvements at Tulane School of Medicine.
$5M gift names Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center
Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies received a $5 million gift from the Zemurray Foundation to name the Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center. Announced during the centennial celebration of Latin American studies at Tulane, the gift strengthens the university’s global leadership in the field.
$10M Marshall Heritage gift fuels Tulane’s fight against cancer
A combined $10 million gift from the Marshall Heritage Foundation and the Marshall Legacy Foundation will help transform Tulane University’s fight against cancer by creating a dedicated research fund, state-of-the-art laboratories and a faculty chair at the School of Medicine. The gift, prompted by Board of Tulane member and alumnus E. Pierce Marshall Jr., honors the memory of his father, E. Pierce Marshall, who died in 2006 of complications from leukemia at age 67.
Tulane researcher receives $1.6M grant to study trauma-induced blood loss
Olan Jackson-Weaver, assistant professor of surgery and adjunct professor of physiology in the School of Medicine, received a grant of over $1.6 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in the National Institutes of Health to study blood loss after acute trauma. The grant will allow researchers in the school to investigate the reasons why some trauma patients have worse outcomes and hopefully find a way to improve survival rates.
