<p>Just wondering why no mention yet of the oil spill in the gulf. recently heard a spokesperson from Tulane on NPR who while not matter of fact about it, seemed to be "corporately correct" in her response to questions. How much money does Tulane receive from the oil industry?</p>
<p>My D, who will be a freshman in the fall, received this email last week Friday from Pres Cowen. It now is on the school website: [Tulane</a> University - Assisting and Remembering](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/administration/president/tulane_talk/tt_043010.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/administration/president/tulane_talk/tt_043010.cfm)</p>
<p>There also was a thread on here discussing the situation briefly, but I am not able to find it now to re-post…</p>
<p>Since Tulane is a worldwide center for the rather arcane field of admiralty law, I suspect this will be a great opportunity for Tulane law students to do internships involving the endless lawsuits this event will generate, and it will probably create job opportunities for young admiralty lawyers.</p>
<p>After all, they’ll be suing each other over this for decades.</p>
<p>I am a little surprised that there have only been two responses to this question in two weeks. NJ mom thank you for the link to the president’s response ( I thought it to be a bit lame however). I don’t know if the university has said any more on the issue. It sure doesn’t look like it is going away any time soon.</p>
<p>This was also just posted on Thursday, May 21st: [Tulane</a> University - Students Mapping the Oil Spill](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/052110_oil_spill.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/052110_oil_spill.cfm)</p>
<p>Here are other links I found on the Tulane website: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gulf_oil_spill_could_result_in.html[/url]”>http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gulf_oil_spill_could_result_in.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100511/tts-us-blast-oil-energy-pollution-972e412.html[/url]”>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100511/tts-us-blast-oil-energy-pollution-972e412.html</a></p>
<p>I found those links on the Tulane site here: <a href=“http://tulane.edu/tulane/news/tulane-in-the-news.cfm[/url]”>http://tulane.edu/tulane/news/tulane-in-the-news.cfm</a></p>
<p>I went to the Gulf and it was very upsetting. Many dead fish on the shore :\ The true devastation hasn’t hit yet which is why the talk is less. It’s big talk ON campus but right now students are see no evil hear no evil be no evil.</p>
<p>[Tulane</a> scientists battle to restore Gulf of Mexico - New Orleans News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - FOX 8 Live WVUE-TV Channel 8](<a href=“http://www.fox8live.com/content/news/oilspill/story/Tulane-scientists-battle-to-restore-Gulf-of-Mexico/hyKVkOaRVE6Wcavn90vSUA.cspx]Tulane”>http://www.fox8live.com/content/news/oilspill/story/Tulane-scientists-battle-to-restore-Gulf-of-Mexico/hyKVkOaRVE6Wcavn90vSUA.cspx)</p>
<p>Should you still eat the craw fish right now?</p>
<p>SJUHawk, is that you? ^</p>
<p>I’ve seen CNN talk to a couple of different Tulane people about the oil spill in the past week… I don’t remember if they were professors or grad students</p>
<p>You can eat the crawfish, but they are almost out of season. This year it runs from Nov 17th, 2009 until July 2010. Keep in mind crawfish are not offshore.</p>
<p>Oysters are fine as well. They simply go to different areas to get them. That means that they might be slightly smaller (for raw oysters) than normal, but still larger than what you’ll find else where in the US. </p>
<p>There are also different seasons for fresh water as well as salt water.</p>
<p>I’ve eaten raw oysters about 6 or 7 times since the spill and cooked oysters about 4 times. The cooked are as large as normal and actually all of the oysters have been better than most years. I’ve also had boiled crawfish and some other local fish and shell fish. While this disaster has devastated the seafood industry you can still get good seafood down in Louisiana.</p>
<p>In case you’re wondering why I’ve eaten so much recently it’s because I’ll be moving up to Philadelphia shortly and wanted to get some local fish before moving to what I consider the frozen tundra above the Mason Dixon.</p>
<p>Benetode–Go to Sansom Street Oyster House, 17th and Sansom–although I think it was renamed recently.</p>
<p>lol, will do. Thanks :)</p>
<p>ok, it’s been two weeks since my original post and thank you all for answers, however, never did get my original question answered about the amount of "oil money’’ at Tulane. Also does anyone think Tulane prematurely reduced engineering at Tulane? Bio-med is all well and good but times like these make chem/environmental/petro engineering majors seem quite useful.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone on CC knows how much money oil companies donate to Tulane, if any at all. Tulane is private, I don’t know how specific they are required to be concerning these matters. However, there have been a couple of articles about Tulane profs and personnel being involved in the current situation both in terms of actively working “on the ground” and dealing with the media. <a href=“http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/060810_oil_experts.cfm[/url]”>http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/060810_oil_experts.cfm</a></p>
<p>Tulane eliminated civil, electrical, enviromental and mechanical engineering. They did not eliminate Petroleum Engineering, at least not as part of these other reductions, because it did not exist. If Tulane had that major, it has been gone for longer than that. Tulane still maintains chemical engineering along with the biomedical you mention, so I don’t know why you state they eliminated it. They also have an evironmental sciences major, so while I don’t know exactly how that differs from environmental engineering, they do have environmental studies covered, as well as a Center for Bioenvironmental Research, which is very active. [CBR</a> – Tulane Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research](<a href=“http://www.cbr.tulane.edu/]CBR”>http://www.cbr.tulane.edu/)</p>
<p>The reductions that actually took place were needed as part of the very survival of Tulane post-Katrina. As time passes and it is clear that Tulane is as strong or even stronger than ever, it is easy to lose sight of how tenuous the situation seemed and was in the miasma of extreme uncertainty. Read the renewal plan to get a sense of the thinking at the time. <a href=“http://renewal.tulane.edu/renewalplan.pdf[/url]”>http://renewal.tulane.edu/renewalplan.pdf</a> While those majors, along with and maybe most especially Computer Science, would be good to have I don’t think there is any way to call the reductions premature. But again, of the three you specifically mention, only environmental is accurate, and possibly (although I don’t know enough about the major to say for sure) this subject matter has been absorbed into the other environmental majors.</p>
<p>Tulane has an energy and environmental LLM program in the law school.<br>
Tulane also has numerous energy trading courses as well as its offering of an energy specialization for business students. </p>
<p>Ultimately Tulane has this [Tulane</a> Energy Institute](<a href=“http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/energy/]Tulane”>Master of Management in Energy | Freeman School of Business | Tulane University | New Orleans) . It is/was originally funded by Entergy which is a power (electricity) company and not an oil company. </p>
<p>While major oil companies recruit for finance personnel at Tulane due to its course offerings, I’m not sure the major oil companies give any substantial aid to the school on a regular basis. Perhaps I’m wrong on that. Hope that clarifies your original question.</p>
<p>Interesting articles concerning the discontent between oil companies and Tulane over the funding it has given to Tulane Law’s LLM program. </p>
<p>[Big</a> Oil Trade Group Defends Move To Punish Tulane For Environmental Law Clinic](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Big Oil Trade Group Defends Move To Punish Tulane For Environmental Law Clinic | HuffPost Impact)</p>
<p>[Courthouse</a> News Service](<a href=“http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/17/27328.htm]Courthouse”>http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/17/27328.htm)</p>
<p>Funding that Tulane HAS gotten from Murphy Oil over the years however:</p>
<p>[The</a> Murphy Institute · The Murphy Institute, 1980-2005](<a href=“http://murphy.tulane.edu/about/history.php]The”>http://murphy.tulane.edu/about/history.php)</p>
<p>[Tulane</a> University - Murphy Oil Corp. Donates Downtown Building to Tulane](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/121707_murphy.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/121707_murphy.cfm)</p>
<p>So Big Oil, not so much. But Tulane has gotten funding from Privately held, smaller oil companies, most notably Murphy Oil. As an aside, the Murphy building houses the Dean’s Office of the Medical School as well as other offices. It’s a very nice building downtown.</p>
<p>Thanks FC and Benetode. Your answers were helpful. Didn’t mean to ruffle any feathers. My comment about chem/environmental/ petro was a bit unclear. I was not implying that Tulane had had all three of those programs and eliminated them, but rather they would be useful engineering programs to help deal with solutions to the current issues with the gulf spill as well as designs for the future.</p>
<p>Back to the original question, I believe Tulane is a very small piece of the picture. I wonder where are all the Save the Gulf concerts??? Everyone jumped to save Haiti. Doesn’t the gulf affect a lot more people, land, sea, sealife, etc. – right here in the US? Why are so many just leaving it up to BP and the government? So much more could be done.</p>