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From groundbreaking research and major funding wins to new leadership and student milestones, the Tulane School of Science and Engineering community is driving discovery at every level. Explore the latest news highlighting the faculty, students, and researchers shaping the future of science and engineering — in the lab, in the classroom, and across the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Tulane University to lead $3.2 million project assessing how sea-level rise will impact 1,800+ military installations worldwide
Sea levels have been rapidly rising along the world’s coastlines over the past several decades, creating havoc in the form of flooding, coastal erosion and increased impacts due to extreme weather events.
Tulane University launches new landscape architecture and engineering dual degree to address climate challenges
Tulane University has launched a first-of-its-kind dual graduate degree — the Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Science in River-Coastal Science and Engineering, which will begin recruiting its first graduate students this summer.
Taking aim at Louisiana’s carbon footprint
Chair Dan Shantz interview with WWL host Dave Brannen:
https://www.audacy.com/wwl/news/local/taking-aim-at-louisianas-carbon-footprint
Tulane part of record-setting $160 million grant to transform Louisiana’s energy industry
Tulane University will play a central role in a new statewide effort that has received the largest and most competitive grant ever awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation – up to $160 million over the next 10 years.
2024 EDI Awards Ceremony
As part of Tulane’s ongoing commitment to recognizing excellence and outstanding leadership, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion held its EDI Awards Ceremony on Jan. 19 at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The event recognized and celebrated the remarkable commitment shown by members of the Tulane community toward creating an inclusive environment at the university.
Study says ice age could help predict oceans’ response to global warming
A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer has found that deposits deep under the ocean floor reveal a way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age, which ended more than 11,000 years ago.
The findings, published in Science Advances, help explain the role oceans played in past glacial melting cycles and could improve predictions of how ocean carbon cycles will respond to global warming.
Researchers discover brain pathway that regulates fear responses
We have all had the experience of freezing in the face of fear and of wanting to escape, or actually running from, a threatening situation. It is a natural, automatic response that researchers are still trying to fully understand.
In a new study published in Nature, researchers at Tulane describe a novel pathway in the brain that sheds light on the way the brain switches from a freezing response to a flight response.
Tulane opens Paul Hall, a transformative home for science and engineering
The start of the spring semester welcomed students and faculty to the Steven and Jann Paul Hall for Science and Engineering, a new, state-of-the-art building for discovery and learning that promises to take interdisciplinary research and innovation to a global level at Tulane.
Office of the Provost and Innovation Institute fund three $50,000 technology development projects
Three new technologies have joined the growing roster of projects supported by the Provost’s Proof of Concept Fund, a $50,000 competitive grant available to Tulane faculty, staff and trainees. This fund is designed to support the development of promising Tulane technologies, helping to advance them closer to the marketplace where they can create impact benefiting society.