The Tulane Cycling Team won the Division II championship in The South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference in their first year as a team in 2011.

Tulane has more than 200 majestic live oaks shading its campus.

Founded in 1924, Tulane’s Middle American Research Institute (MARI) boasts a large collection of Mayan artifacts and a museum.

In 2006, Tulane hosted an on-campus red carpet premiere of “All the King’s Men.”  Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, and Patricia Clarkson were among the stars who attended.

Newcomb Pottery, widely considered one of the most significant American art pottery collections of the 20th century, originated from Tulane's H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College pottery program. 

Tulane University hosted the first-ever Clinton Global Initiative in Spring 2008. 

22 Jump Street was partially filmed on Tulane's campus in 2013.

The Pelican Brief, a 1993 thriller starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts, was filmed on Tulane’s campus.

The Tulane motto is "Non sibi, sed suis," translated as, "not for one's self, but for one's own."

Tulane's athletic teams are known as the Green Wave after a song written in 1920 by Earl Sparling, then editor of The Hullabaloo.