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The Green Room
by Tulane University
The Green Room is a podcast from Tulane University. Created by staff members from the New Wave news team, the podcast features in-depth interviews with faculty experts, local artists, musicians and visiting speakers. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane is one of the most highly regarded and selective independent research universities in the United States.
Episodes
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The Green Room: The electoral college
As we prepare to cast our ballots in November, We’ll ask some of our faculty experts the weigh in on the how’s and whys of the presidential election. For our first installment we asked Celeste Lay, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, to explain the Electoral College.
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Stock market correction or catastrophe?
January is proving to be a particularly rough month on Wall Street with the Dow shedding points at a historic rate. Investors are jittery and wondering if 2016 is setting up to be a rehash of the 2008 crash. To answer these questions and get some perspective on what the market says about the...
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The Green Room: The New Quorum of New Orleans
On Wed., January 13, 2016, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University will host a panel on music as an agent in the continuing Civil Rights Movement and advancing cultural equity. The discussion will be led by Gianna Chachere, founder of The New Quorum in New Orleans, with…
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The Green Room: China's one-child policy
In October China reversed its three-decade-old rule restricting women from having more than one child. There was much talk about the decision and the impact that a possible baby boom in the world’s most populous country would have on the world. To answer these questions, The Green Room producers...
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The Green Room: Insight from insiders at CELT at Tulane University
Tulane University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) provides theoretical and applied resources, tools and direction to the university community to realize the goal of engaged learning at Tulane. CELT coalesces and serves as a clearinghouse for the university’s engaged learning...
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Happy Birthday Copyright
The song Happy Birthday has a long litigious history datingg back to the 1930s. Every year, people spent millions in royalties to use the song, until a class action law suit was brought challengin whether the owner, Warner/Chappell Music, actually owned the copyright it so aggressively enforced....
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3-minute thesis throwdown
An 80,000 word thesis would take nine hours to present. Their time limit ... three minutes. That’s the challenge that nine Tulane students face on Wednesday (Nov. 11) from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall in the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, at the first-ever...
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The Green Room: Students bring R&B singer Jeremih to Tulane
Tulane University Campus Programming (TUCP) has always gone above and beyond in bringing talent and entertainment to Tulane students, and the concerts committee did not disappointed this time around. For the fall 2015 concert, Trey Lopez and Eunice Lee led the committee in bringing Jeremih to...
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The Green Room: A spooktakular mission for Halloween
Ween Dream is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that gives free Halloween costumes to children in need. In this episode of the Green Room, ’Ween Dream founder and CEO Kelsey Meeks, a Tulane University alumna, talks about the spooktacular mission of the New Orleans-based nonprofit that, in...
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The Green Room: A Studio in the Woods opens its gates
In this episode of the Green Room, we explore the lessons of the forest offered by A Studio in the Woods, a sanctuary located on eight acres of bottomland hardwood forest in lower coast Algiers. (A program of Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, A Studio in the Woods is dedicated…
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The Green Room: An insidious threat
For parents, the number one job as it pertains to their children is to keep them safe. From baby-proofing houses to teaching them how to look both ways before crossing the street; it starts before they’re born and continues into adulthood. But, for one member of the Tulane faculty, that wasn’t...
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The Green Room: Mike Griffith On Tulane Tech Day
Mike Griffith is the faculty technology coordinator at Tulane University. In this episode of the Green Room, Mike explains the annual Tech Day that is held at Tulane every fall. This year, it will be on September 24-25 on the downtown and uptown campuses, respectively. The keynote speaker this…
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The Green Room: Entrepreneurism in NOLA
It’s a somewhat common notion that entrepreneurism in New Orleans is a byproduct of the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. In the last 10 years, the city has seen unprecedented growth of startups, but how much of that is really the result of Katrina? New Wave went down to the Idea Village and…
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The Green Room: Move-in day 2015
The Green Room: Move-in day 2015 by Tulane University
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More Than Twice, More Than I Can Count
"More Than Twice, More Than I Can Count" is an original poem by Peter Cooley, a professor of English at Tulane University and poet laureate of Louisiana. He narrates this poem for the New Wave.
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The Green Room: Saving Tulane research from Katrina's aftermath
With the city deserted after Hurricane Katrina and buildings in varying states of damage, evacuated Tulane scientists returned to the New Orleans area to see whether any of their research could be saved from floodwaters, wind and power outages. In some cases, decades’ worth of research was…
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The Green Room: Collecting Katrina Ephemera
In remembrance of the ten-year anniversary of Katrina, the Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University is acquiring and permanently preserving pamphlets, flyers, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, and the personal accounts of people who experienced the disaster. Katy Hobgood Ray interviews Leon...
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The Green Room: Confederate Monuments
Since the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, last month, the debate over whether the Confederate flag and monuments to leaders of the Confederacy have any place in the contemporary South has become quite heated. In an effort to...
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The Green Room: A closer look at Greece
For those paying attention, what’s happening in Greece is playing out like an ancient tragedy on a macro economic scale. Banks shut down for weeks and the international community looked on as the Greek people voted against accepting new austerity measures in order to avoid a default on the…
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The Green Room: What makes a super region?
The concept of a "super region" encompassing Louisiana's two largest metro areas — New Orleans and Baton Rouge — has been percolating for the past five years. New Wave decided to take a look at the idea from both a business perspective and a geographical one.
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Green Room: Planning ahead for hurricanes
In this episode of the Green Room, Norris Yarbrough, director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response at Tulane University, discusses hurricane preparedness and the importance of having a plan in advance of a storm.
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2015 Tulane Alumni Crawfish Boil in NYC
On May 30, 2015, the Tulane Club of New York held its seventh annual crawfish boil for alumni at the 79th Boat Basin Cafe, an open-air patio and rotunda overlooking the Hudson River. In this edition of the Green Room, Katy Ray interviews some of the attendees, getting their thoughts on the…
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The Green Room: Ben Schenck of Panorama Jazz Band
In this episode of the Green Room, Katy Ray interviews musician Ben Schenck, who for over twenty years has worked at the Theatre and Dance department at Tulane University as an accompanist. He plays conga for modern dance technique classes—a role he has held since before there was even a dance...
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The Green Room: Never give up
Despite a catastrophic injury during his sophomore year in college, Woody Morgan is graduating from Tulane medical school and soon he will be heading to residency training at Harvard.
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The Green Room is a podcast from Tulane University. Created by staff members from the New Wave news team, the podcast features in-depth interviews with faculty experts, local artists, musicians and visiting speakers. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane is one of the most highly regarded and selective independent research universities in the United States.
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