DID YOU KNOW?

- President Obama has named Janet Woodka, a Tulane Law School graduate, the new federal coordinator of rebuilding in the Gulf Coast region.

- Tulane researchers in multiple disciplines are collaborating on new treatments for triple-negative breast cancer.

- Tulane University Law School offered its first classes in December 1847, making it the 12th-oldest law school in the United States.

- Lisa Jackson, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is a graduate of Tulane. She graduated summa cum laude in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

- Tulane finished second in the country, receiving an A+ grade in the second annual Glass Ceiling Report Card for providing coaching opportunities for women.

- The School of Medicine is opening community health clinics across the city to offer high-quality preventative care to the uninsured.

- Tulane will drop 1,500 commemorative beach balls and balloons to celebrate the conclusion of the Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony.

- The house of Tulane's president on St. Charles Avenue was once the mansion of Sam Zemurray, who was the head of the United Fruit Company, which became infamous for its exploitation of Latin American countries as "banana republics."