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Just do it – Runsdorf Award winners embody the spirit of public service

Public service is a hallmark of the Tulane student experience; however, some students go above and beyond in achieving the Tulane ideal of excelling academically by using their skills and knowledge in service to the community. Two such students are Ron’Janiele “Nelly” Bruce and Mollie Sloter, the 2022 recipients of the Jim Runsdorf Excellence in Public Service Student Award.

Tulane geologist honored by National Academies of Sciences

Cynthia Ebinger, the Marshall-Heape Professor in the Tulane University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been named one of 14 Jefferson Science Fellows by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

As a Fellow, Ebinger will spend the next year as a full-time scientist with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs, which is focused on the development and management of U.S. policy related to Africa.

Tulane math professor receives international research award

Tulane University math professor Lisa Fauci has won a prestigious research grant from the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO),a non-profit organization, based in Strasbourg, France, that funds basic research in life sciences.

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.