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Sep 24, 2020
As Climate Week draws to a close, Tulane faculty are reflecting on what they have learned through their lectures and participation in climate change events across the country over the past week. One emerging theme is the growing demand for a climate-educated workforce. With global economies...Transcript: TIME features two Tulane experts and two big Tulane grants make national headlines. Here’s a full wrap up in Tulane News in Review. TIME magazine is publishing a special issue on the American South, which features two prominent Tulanians. English professor and two-time National Book...
Why would a bank hire a chemical engineer? What do you do with a computer science degree when you’re burned out on coding? How do you land that amazing internship at NASA? The answers to these questions and more were part of the Tulane Science Scholars Program's (TSSP) “Lunch and Learn” speaker...
Kerrigan McGreevy, a high school senior from Florida, right, builds a robot during a course titled, The Aftermath of Mardi Gras: Using LEGO Robots to Clean Up the Beads. Part of the Tulane Summer Enrichment Institute, the course challenged students to build robots and design code. They then visited...
Editor’s note: This article appeared first in the June 2018 issue of Tulane magazine. Whatever the political climate, entertainment has always served as escapist fare, but it’s the hope of two Tulane graduates that life might just imitate and reflect their particular form of entertainment, as their...
Nicholas Aldana reacts to the unfavorable outcome of his first attempt to design and build a prototype for a water filtration system. The project is part of a course titled "Water, Water Everywhere: Using LEGO Robots to Change How We Find, Use and Dispose of Water,” one of several courses of study...
When Tulane University alumnus Luke Hooper entered his wireless game Lumen into the 2018 Edison Awards competition – which honors the most innovative new products, services and business leaders in America – he did so knowing that his chances of winning were probably nil. The game wasn’t on the...
Tulane University’s Brain Institute has received a $1 million pledge from the Priddy Family Foundation to endow and establish the Priddy Family Spark Research Endowed Fund. The fund will provide competitive awards to faculty for early-stage research support that advances the research priorities of...
A 3D print, left, made from polylactic plastic slowly takes shape in the Tulane Maker Space on Friday morning. Maker Space, located in a former campus machine shop on Engineering Road, is open to all Tulane affiliates with a current Tulane ID. The facility boasts 12 3D printers, two laser printers...
Tulane University’s Brain Institute has received a five-year, $1 million Comprehensive Enhancement Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents that it will use to purchase scientific instruments for its facilities. The grant is the result of the combined efforts of 25 faculty members from the Tulane...
A national report released Wednesday on the future of the Gulf Coast draws heavily on the work of two Tulane University scientists who have spent most of their careers studying coastal systems in Louisiana and around the world. The report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and...