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Tulane graduates’ medical simulation startup receives prestigious NSF award

In 2019, then Tulane University seniors Hannah Eherenfeldt and Benjamin Knapp won the Novel Tech Challenge for their medical simulation startup, ReSuture. The company enables medical students and surgical residents to learn vascular surgical skills in a controlled and monitored environment.

Their victory came with a grand prize of $10,000, which they put towards a patent, further product development and equipment.

Tulane alumni couple’s $2 million gift will target climate change, coastal issues via two professorships, symposia

Haunted by memories of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, an alumni couple with deep ties to Tulane and New Orleans has made a $2 million gift to the university that aims to pack a one-two punch against climate change and coastal erosion. David and Jane Flowerree have established two professorships aimed at finding solutions to the environmental crisis facing Louisiana and other areas threatened by rising seas, warming temperatures, and weather-driven disasters.

Tulane study to examine role of racial injustice in design of memorials and monuments

Researchers from the Tulane University School of Architecture and the School of Science and Engineering are embarking on a project that they hope answers questions about racial injustice and its impact on the design of urban spaces, monuments and memorials.

W. M. Keck Foundation grant to Tulane could spark “breakthrough” optical, wireless technologies

Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to do what no physicist has ever done before: see through opaque matter using superoscillations of light in a time-domain spectroscopy lab.

That phrase might be difficult for the layperson to grasp, but its results could eventually transform a wide range of fields and technologies, from wireless communications and remote sensing to X-rays and security screenings.

Acclaimed plant ecologist to headline virtual lectureship

In the world of plant ecology and conservation, Robin Wall Kimmerer is considered a rock star.  

She is also the featured speaker of the 2021 Marcia Monroe Conery Lectureship Series sponsored by the Tulane University Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Tulane engineering students place first in design competition

When four biomedical engineering students from Tulane University were chosen for an internship at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (SLVHCS) last summer, they were tasked with identifying an unmet clinical need – something that would not only save money for the agency but improve patient care and satisfaction.
 
They brainstormed multiple ideas, ultimately settling on a project they dubbed “Socket To Me” — improving the costly and time-consuming process of manufacturing lower limb prosthetic sockets.

BioAesthetics and Tulane awarded grant to develop new advanced wound-care graft

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to BioAesthetics Corp. to develop a new advanced wound-care product for treating bed sores or pressure ulcers. The product will be tested at Tulane University.

The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award will fund initial testing and development of a skin graft that combines the company’s tissue regeneration technology with infection-fighting drugs to better promote healing.

Masked and Online, Second Group Receives River Science and Engineering Certificate

Though delayed due to COVID-19, the next group of students who completed the River Science and Engineering Graduate Certificate gathered to receive their certificates by Zoom, and joined students and faculty from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA, Vicksburg, MS, Louisville, KY and St. Paul, MN.  The celebration was led by Dr. Kimberly Foster, Dean of the Tulane School of Science and Engineering and Dr.

Tulane scientist honored for research on reproductive health

Kristin S. Miller, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Tulane University, is the winner of the 2021 ASME Y.C. Fung Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to the field of bioengineering through research to advance understanding of the female reproductive system.

Tulane joins national program to improve graduate student diversity in earth sciences

The Tulane University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has been accepted into the AGU Bridge Program, an initiative designed to recruit and retain underrepresented students who are applying to geoscience graduate schools. AGU (American Geophysical Union) is the nation’s largest scientific society in earth sciences.