That first season started with a 94 yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam ( No other team in NFL history has ever returned a kickoff for a touchdown on its first attempt as a new franchise ), but the Saints lost that game 27 – 13 to the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium.

The last minute change of venue meant this was not only the last of three Super Bowls played at Tulane Stadium, but the last professional game ever played in the stadium, which was demolished five years later and replaced for the 1975 NFL season by the Louisiana Superdome, which has hosted every Super Bowl held in New Orleans since.

Fudan University has established exchange relationships with more than 200 universities and research institutions in about 30 countries and regions, including Oklahoma State University, Beloit College, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Yale University, Trinity College ( Connecticut ), Tulane University, Durham University Business School, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Rochester, Georgetown University, Instituto de Empresa ( IE Business School ), University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine, the University of Toronto, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, University of Sydney, Rhodes University, K. U. Leuven at Leuven, Flanders, Europe, Tokyo University, National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, ESSEC, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris and Institut d ' études politiques de Lille.

" Michael Zimmerman, Philosophy Professor at Tulane University, described Erhard as " a kind of artist, a thinker, an inventor, who has big debts to others, borrowed from others, but then put the whole thing together in a way that no one else had ever done.

After Hurricane Katrina, Tulane has continued to build new facilities and renovate old spaces on its campus.

Tulane also has signed an educational affiliation agreement with International University in Geneva.

Tulane University, as a private institution, has been governed since 1884 by the Board of Tulane ( also known as the Board of Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ) that was established in 1882.

Meanwhile, the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has reportedly led to an increase in student selectivity in and of itself, as applications to law schools across the nation are estimated to have risen by 5 % between 2008 and 2009, including a 15 % increase at Tulane Law alone.

The Tulane University School of Social Work has awarded the master of social work degrees to more than 4, 700 students from all 50 of the United States and more than 30 other countries.

Due to the increasing size of incoming classes, Tulane has allowed a small number of rising Sophomores to reside off campus instead of being required to remain in campus housing.

Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Rothko, who was a Visiting Artist from 1956 – 1957.

Tulane has been portrayed in several books, television shows and films.

Paul H. Lewis, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, who has written Guerrillas and Generals: The Dirty War in Argentina, is among those who claim otherwise.

Although rarer than the Doctor of Philosophy, the Doctor of Science research degree has been awarded by institutions such as Columbia University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Morris University and Tulane University.

Tulane Professor Carl L. Bankston III has described his own university's policy of mandating service learning as the imposition of intellectual conformity by the university administration on both students and faculty.

It is estimated that Tulane University has graduated more than 40 percent of all physicians in the U. S. who have earned both M. D.

The protagonist is Laura Bow ( a pun on Clara Bow ), a Southern belle who has just graduated from Tulane University and moved to New York City, where she has landed a job at a prestigious newspaper.

It has been home to the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA since 2002, and is also home to some Tulane University basketball games as well as some high school basketball games and other special events.

That same year he left for a research career in the United States where he has worked principally at Tulane University.

Zumthor has taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles ( 1988 ), the Technical University of Munich ( 1989 ), Tulane University ( 1992 ), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design ( 1999 ).

In his honor, he has several streets named after him throughout the country, including Tulane Street in Princeton, and Tulane Avenue in New Orleans.

* Tulane Law School offers classes through a European summer abroad program, utilizing many prestigious universities throughout several countries.

In May 2007, Tulane Law announced a Strategic Plan to increase student selectivity by gradually reducing the incoming JD class size from a historical average of 350 students per year to a target of 250 students per year within several years.

Tulane also hosted several prominent faculty, such as two members who each won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally.

Also, several movies have been filmed at Tulane University, especially since tax credits from the state of Louisiana have drawn more productions to the new " Hollywood South " in the late 2000s ( decade ).

After hosting several exhibition games at Tulane Stadium during typical New Orleans summer thunderstorms, Dixon was told by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle that the NFL would never expand into New Orleans without a domed stadium.

Tulane is unique among universities in the United States in its academic organization in that all undergraduates are enrolled in Newcomb-Tulane College as well as being registered in the School which houses their major.

By 1967 the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine reestablished as a separate academic unit of Tulane.

* Dean H. Echols, M. D., faculty 1937-1973, first neurosurgeon on faculty of Tulane ; one of eight founders of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and first President ; establishes The Society of Neurological Surgeons Foundation ; trains 4 neurosurgeons who subsequently become academic department chairmen.

* A Tulane University science building, housing five academic departments

Some of the faculty had believed that Newcomb's separate status had adversely affected promotions, for instance, as well as other academic opportunities and had long encouraged a realignment within Tulane University.

Strong academic and admission trend of Auburn High School continues, as graduates of the class of 2011 attend the University of Chicago, Cornell, Emory, North Carolina, Oberlin, Tulane, UC Berkeley, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Wake Forest, and Yale, with vast majority of student body who attends Auburn University, Southern Union, Alabama, and UAB.

Tulane University ( officially The Tulane University of Louisiana or simply TU ) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

The Middle American Research Institute was established in 1925 at Tulane " for the purpose of advanced research into the history ( both Indian and colonial ), archaeology, tropical botany ( both economic and medical ), the natural resources and products, of the countries facing New Orleans across the waters to the south ; to gather, index and disseminate data thereupon ; and to aid in the upbuilding of the best commercial and friendly relations between these Trans-Caribbean peoples and the United States.

In 2006 Tulane became the first Carnegie ranked “ high research activity ” institution to have an undergraduate public service graduation requirement.

The Tulane School of Architecture ranks 32nd nationally for its research performance.

In 2001 the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy started as the first major center in the U. S. to focus on research using adult stem cells.

Tulane also is designated by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with " very high research activity.

" For 2007, Tulane reached the highest level of research funding in its history, exceeding $ 157. 5 million.

In 2008 Tulane was ranked by the Ford Foundation as the major international studies research institution in the South and one of the top 15 nationally.

In the early 1990s, Clifford T. Brown of Tulane University carried out excavations in the residential zones of Mayapan as part of his doctoral dissertation research.

Following graduation, Stevenson took a series of jobs in hospitals as an intern or resident, before embarking on research at Tulane University focusing on biochemical tissue oxidation.

While the public speculates about who may have killed them and why, the main character, Darby Shaw, a Tulane University Law School student, decides to research the two justices ' records and cases pending before the Court, suspecting the real motive might be simple greed, not politics.

In 2001 the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy started as the first major center in the U. S. to focus on research using adult stem cells.

During his tenure at Tulane, Gallup also developed a research interest in tonic immobility, or

William Balée, Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University, has proposed four interdependent postulates, which set historical ecology apart from other more traditional research programs.

Published research and presentations on the New Orleans clarinet style, and in 2002 initiated pursuit of a musicology degree at Tulane University.

* Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, devoted to research about slavery, civil rights and African Americans.