A vintage athletic set from Tulane 💚 Tulane was founded in ..
Added 2024-03-25 05:01:05 +0000 UTCA vintage athletic set from Tulane 💚
Tulane was founded in 1834 here in New Orleans and is generally regarded as a “hidden ivy” (or, a really good school that isn’t one of the Ivy League schools). It’s got a lot of great programs, but one of the coolest is their Tropical Medicine & Infect!ous D!sease program which actually started back in the 1830s and by the 1960s grew so large that a 500-acre complex was purchased along the Abita river to house pr!mate facilities.
Like any infect!ous d!sease research center, it hasn’t been without interesting controversy, from concerns over using the mon keys in exper!ments during the early US space program (how fast can a pr!mate be spun and at what projectile will they vom*t if we recreate conditions in space?), to rare d!sease outbreaks and how to best manage them, to mon keys escaping into the surrounding neighborhoods.
Perhaps the most interesting (and totally unfounded) is the 2007 book “Dr. Mary’s Mon keys”, which is a long winded, convoluted take on how Dr. Mary Sherman, a New Orleans physician and member of the Tulane faculty overseeing pr!mate research was m-r-dered on St. Charles Ave back in the 1960s as a (get this!):
“consp!racy tale involving a clandestine an!mal lab; a heavily guarded linear accelerator; monkees from Tulane Med!cal; a high school science fair winner and Lee Harvey Oswald’s secret lover; and a plot to k *ll Fidel Castro with cancer causing monkee cells orchestrated by a right wing marriage between Carlos Marcello and Alton Ochsner, Sr. – the stealth v!ruses were then sent to Haiti where they simmered for almost two decades before erupting into a worldwide ep!demic of various cancers and A! DS.“
If you need some wild beach reading, this would be it. (Or, The Martian. Unrelated to Tulane but still good reading).
TL:DR like any long-standing institution in New Orleans, Tulane is not without wild tales throughout its history. 💚
