In 2014, Tulane opened Yulman Stadium—entirely funded by private donations—and moved Green Wave football back to the Uptown campus for the first time in 40 years.

The Tulane University Marching Band appears every year in New Orleans Mardi Gras parades.

Tulane's school colors are Olive Green and Sky Blue. Before they were the Green Wave, athletics teams were simply called The Olive and Blue.

Bryan Batt of Mad Men, and star of 9 Broadway shows, is a New Orleans native and 1985 Tulane Grad.

The Rouses Supermarket on Baronne Street has a rooftop aquaponic garden that uses technology from a company founded by two former Tulane students.

At the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, Barry Spanier—director of the Tulane University Marching Band—was the artistic director for the International Olympic Band.

Tulane engineering student Ian Terry won “Big Brother 14”—and half a million dollars.

Tulane is home to the Hogan Jazz Archive, the world's premier source of recordings, photographs and books about New Orleans jazz from its traditional roots to its modern form.

Several Tulane Green Wave football alumni play in the National Football League, including Cairo Santos, Lorenzo Doss, Orleans Darkwa, Rob Kelley, Ryan Grant, and Ryan Griffin.

In 1850, J. Lawrence Smith, a faculty member in the Tulane School of Medicine, invented the inverted microscope.