SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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The Tulane City Center houses the School of Architecture’s urban research and outreach programs. Programs of the City Center vary over time, but share a focus on improving cities through fostering global urban research, the development of flexible and innovative urban strategies, and the provision of environmentally and culturally informed principles to guide the design and revitalization of the contemporary metropolis.
 URBANbuild is a laboratory for city research and design. Students in URBANbuild studios are deployed to neighborhoods throughout the city to develop creative and sustainable urban design strategies, innovative designs for new housing, historic property inventories, and proposals for site-specific urban interventions and large-scale mixed use urban environments. Students also design and construct a prototypical house in partnership with community non-profit agencies that specialize in affordable housing and neighborhood redevelopment.
 Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC) primarily enlists students from within the School of Architecture; the principle activities that the Center is involved in include urban design, programming, and client-user group mediation. In the past several years, students have been involved in a broad consideration of urban affairs, including debates involving historic preservation, slow growth development, housing development, and "new urbanism" among other issues. Students have also had the opportunity to become involved with real-world planning projects across the region.
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A.B. FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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 The Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship (LRI) trains and inspires entrepreneurs through coursework, community service projects, and internships.
In addition, LRI coordinates joint academic, government and business initiatives that stimulate private enterprise and regional economic growth. It also contributes to regional and economic development by assisting the corporate and family business communities in identifying and exploring business issues through shared learning experiences.
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SCHOOL OF LAW
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 The Public Law Center
The Louisiana Supreme Court and federal courts in Louisiana authorize third-year law students to conduct a limited law practice for indigent clients. Under the direction of Tulane supervising faculty who are members of the Louisiana bar, students represent clients by investigating, preparing, and trying cases, or by becoming involved in administrative or legislative proceedings.
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SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
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 A community-based, arts-focused network of organizations, universities, artists, and neighbors, HOME, New Orleans responds to community priorities through neighborhood and community arts projects, memorials, youth theatre workshops, performance and installation, and other forms of creative expression that enhance life and create new opportunities to rebuild community for New Orleans and its residents.
 The Metro New Orleans Demographic Project examines changing population trends in the New Orleans metro area in the post–Second World War era, and documents dramatic shifts in city–suburb development and racial composition.
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Working with Guatemalan researchers, Tulane researchers are exploring and mapping Mayan sacred sites in the Central Highlands of Guatemala. The team’s recording of the recent cultural history of these sites is used to educate school children about their cultural heritage and to provide the ajq'ija' (religious specialists) with information necessary for them to apply to the government for protection of the sacred areas.
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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 The Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House is dedicated to improving the health of our New Orleans neighbors by providing continuous high-quality, holistic, accessible, community-centric care within the context of a neighborhood life center.
 The Drop-In Center & Clinic at 1428 N. Rampart St. in New Orleans offers a safe place for homeless and at-risk youth to escape the streets. The Drop-In strives to meet the basic needs of its clients, as well as to maintain an environment that supports youth in making positive changes and safer lifestyle choices.
 Bridging Health Together (BHT) is a student-led partnership between Tulane University School of Medicine and Bridge House, the largest residential substance abuse halfway house in the state of Louisiana. BHT’s primary goal is to provide quality healthcare services to the Bridge House clients, while offering a unique learning opportunity for student volunteers.
The Tulane Rural Medical Education Program (TRuMEd) program is designed to recruit and educate medical students who intend to enter practice in a rural area or small town of Louisiana or the Gulf South, particularly in the field of Family Medicine.
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH & TROPICAL MEDICINE
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The Prevention Research Center at Tulane University works with communities in assessing the effect of changes in the social and physical environment on health and healthy behaviors, and designing and implementing strategies for prevention.
 Rebuilding Healthy Neighborhoods for Children and Families in New Orleans, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on the opportunity to rebuild flood-damaged neighborhoods in ways that promote health for families and children.
The first nationally designated Center of Excellence in Women's Health in the southeastern United States, Tulane Xavier National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (TUXCOE) strives to enhance women’s health through communication, empowerment and prevention.
 Projects in International Health & Development
Dedicated to improving the health status of populations throughout the world, IHD personnel are engaged in work in six key content areas: Nutrition and Food Security; Emergencies and Disaster Management; Reproductive Health and Population; Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS; Policy, Programs, and Management; and Monitoring & Evaluation.
 Dedicated to building community around the food and cuisine of Treme, Treme’s Cookin partners public health faculty and students with local residents and such groups as the St. Augustine's Pastoral Council, the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, Whole Foods Market, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, the Consulate General of France in New Orleans, Providence Community Housing and the RALLY Foundation.
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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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Center for Bioenvironmental Research
River Sphere is a Tulane University place for art, science, and technology, about rivers, for river communities, on the New Orleans Mississippi riverfront.
 Katrina Environmental Research and Restoration Network (KERRN) is a network of researchers sharing data and ideas, crossing disciplinary, geographical and institutional boundaries, providing models for how to respond to major environmental disasters.
 Urban Ecosystem Initiative
Urban landscapes provide a unique opportunity to study the interface between the natural and build environment, the importance of social and cultural networks, and the factors that lead to healthy and sustainable cities. The Urban Ecosystems Initiative provides both a public forum and expertise for development of resilience in the rebuilding City of New Orleans as well as other urban centers worldwide. Research and education promotes revitalization of the environmental, cultural, and economic values of the region and social governance of that process.
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
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The Tulane School of Social Work is partnering with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), one of the foremost training centers in South Asia to address issues of social, economic, health, and community development and to promote a sustainable and equitable society. Student field placement opportunities include working with NGOs in the following areas: slum areas of Mumbai, street children, women’s equity and empowerment issues, and child and family programs.
Tulane Community Organizing Research Project (T-CORPS) is a longitudinal study of 25 community organizations that are focused on post-Katrina rebuilding. Organizations are engaged in work related to neighborhood revitalization; community development; health/environment; housing and civil rights. The inquiry centers on organizing and advocacy strategies as well as organizational practices with particular attention to the discourses of issue framing and race/class analyses. T-CORPS produces reports and papers available to community practitioners and researchers.
 The Elizabeth Wisner Social Welfare Research Center for Families and Children seeks to address social problems by supporting research that addresses the problem of violence affecting families and children. It is the purpose of the Center to support scholars in developing a better understanding of violence, informing interventions designed to address violence and thereby reduce violence in families and communities.
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CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
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Recognizing that active, civic engagement builds strong, healthy communities and responsible citizens, the Center for Public Service merges academic inquiry with sustained civic engagement. The Center is a forum for students, faculty, and community partners to work together to address urgent and long-term social challenges and opportunities.
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COWEN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES
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 The Cowen Institute aspires to pioneer a new model for the role of higher education institutions in public schooling systems. It is: a bridge between education research, policy, and practice; a voice for the entire system of public schools; an incubator of programs that impact student achievement; a platform for collaboration and communication between communities, schools, experts, and non-profits, to share learning and resources.
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THE PAYSON CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
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Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of Cote d'Ivoire & Ghana
Funded by the US Department of Labor, the Payson Center oversees and assesses the cocoa sector¹s child labor certification, monitoring, verification systems, and project activities. The project also generates the information needed to guide and measure progress towards objectives outlined in the Harkin-Engel Protocol.
Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI)
CERTI is an interagency initiative funded in part by USAID. It addresses the challenges of programming international assistance to achieve health security within the context of increasingly frequent and severe conflict-related crises (complex emergencies) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
West & Central Africa Family Health and AIDS Prevention (SFPS)
This project focuses on the desirability of family planning and reduction of the spread of STD/HIV infections in selected countries (primarily Francophone) in West and Central Africa. It is designed to test alternative strategies for change and to promote the use of operations research as a management tool. The contract supports applied research, integration of Operations Research into Public Health Schools, and other institution-building activities in the region.
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THE SOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
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 Southern Institute is a non-profit race relations center dedicated to improving ethnic relations in the Deep South through tolerance education and communications training.
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