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Team Fleur FemTech wins annual Novel Tech Challenge

When Shelby White, Arya Monticino, Alexis LaRosa, and Jasmine Kiley, all students in the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, joined forces to enter the Eighth Annual Novel Tech Challenge, they knew they wanted to design something for women with limited access to health care.

Luminescent specimen

A visitor to the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, housed within the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, examines a specimen during a workshop hosted by A Studio in the Woods, “Fishes: Masters of Adaptation – Workshop and Tour of the Royal D.

Tulane scientists develop powerful family of two-dimensional materials

A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including in advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries.

Led by Michael Naguib, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, the study has been published in the journal Advanced Materials.

Tulane alumni reimagining glass recycling

Louisiana is losing land to coastal erosion at the rate of one football field every 100 minutes. According to Franziska Trautmann, an alumna of the School of Science and Engineering and co-founder of Glass Half Full, it doesn’t have to be this way. She recently spoke to Tulane’s On Good Authority podcast about how Glass Half Full is endeavoring to increase Louisiana’s climate resilience and disaster readiness by recycling its glass.

Library event takes flight

On April 22, Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) resumed its practice of “Flipping the Bird” — a weekly practice of turning a page in its John James Audubon Birds of America series.

The staff will turn a page in one of the volumes every Wednesday to reveal one of Audubon’s drawings (at one page per week, it will take five years to complete Tulane’s three volumes).

Researchers study impact of college personality course on personality understanding

For college students studying psychology, taking an introduction to personality course can go a long way in their understanding of another person’s behaviors and traits.

That was the finding of a Tulane University study that looked at the connection between the introductory personality course and a student’s dispositional intelligence.

Tulane Innovation Institute to transform university’s tech and entrepreneurial enterprises — and the regional economy

The Tulane Innovation Institute will launch operations from its downtown headquarters later this year, thanks to several generous lead gifts from forward-thinking philanthropists.

Tulane team a national semifinalist in energy technology competition

When Samantha Hilburn learned of the U.S. Department of Energy’s inaugural EnergyTech University Prize competition, which challenges multidisciplinary teams to identify an emerging energy technology, there was no question that she wanted to sign up.

A Tulane University senior studying geology, environmental studies and economics, Hilburn is all about coming up with affordable energy alternatives to fossil fuels as a way of reducing carbon emissions and combatting global climate change.

Tulane researcher wins NSF award to study Earth’s ‘explosive’ tectonic reactions

Colin Jackson, a researcher in the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, has won a National Science Foundation Early Career Award to further his research on the chemistry of planets.

The $700,000 award will enable Jackson and his research team to conduct experiments to investigate the chemical reactions that occur in subduction zones, the locations on Earth where two tectonic plates converge.

Tulane faculty, staff and alumni take the stage at New Orleans Book Festival

When The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University officially opens on Thursday, March 10, some of the most popular and thought-provoking authors will be in attendance. Even better, many of those authors are already affiliated with Tulane University. Faculty and staff from across the university will appear on panels discussing a variety of topics on Friday and Saturday, March 11-12, 2022. Seating may be limited and is first come, first served. Click here to learn more about The New Orleans Book Festival.