Tulane officials said they hope the latest gift will raise the public health school's profile. The U.S. News and World Report ranked Tulane 12th among public health schools in the country this year, behind schools such as Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University and Emory University.

Tulane names its School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine after alumna Celia Scott Weatherhead, recognizing her for giving more than $160 million to the university.

Sept. 20, the 14 alleged protestors from the pro-Palestinian encampment on Tulane University’s campus in April were acquitted on all charges.  At least two of the acquitted are suspended Tulane students,

A New Orleans judge on Friday is expected to hear the case against more than a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators accused of remaining in a place after being forbidden, a misdemeanor charge that came after a May skirmish on Tulane University’s campus.

A pro-Palestinian coalition of University of Michigan student groups say authorities have weaponized the legal system to quash their protests and have called on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to drop what they say are “politicized” charges.