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Tulane offers region’s first GIS certificate program

When searching directions using Google Maps, tagging your location on social media or requesting an Uber ride from your smartphone, you are utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) — systems designed to present spatial data.

Service international

The Engage in St. Martin program, now in its third consecutive year, focused on the island’s recovery efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma in September. Six Tulane students attended the 2018 summer service trip led by Myriam Huet, assistant director at the Tulane Center for Public Service.

Protein investigator

Tulane student Elizabeth Isabel, a rising junior majoring in neuroscience, transfers tau proteins into a gel in the lab of Anne Robinson, the Catherine and Henry Boh Professor of Engineering. The proteins will be studied to identify distinct behaviors that cause them to expire. Abnormal proteins destroy brain cells and lead to memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Jill Daniel named first Gary P. Dohanich Professor in Brain Science

From early in development to the golden years of aging, Tulane University neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology Jill Daniel studies brain mechanisms by which hormones affect one’s ability to learn and remember.
Daniel is the founding director of the transdisciplinary Tulane Brain Institute, which was established in 2016 to coordinate and expand neuroscience research and education across all campuses of the university.

Graduate leaves Tulane with Peery Society honor

Recent Tulane University graduate Maria Gomez-Roas received the 2018 William Wallace Peery Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by Newcomb-Tulane College. Gomez-Roas earned a bachelor of science degree after double majoring in cell and molecular biology and French.

The Peery Medal is given to a senior whose academic achievements exemplify breadth and depth of learning in their Tulane career.

Tulane experts tackle tough topics

Video transcript:

Tulane experts are all over the national news…here’s a full recap of Tulane News in Review.

People packed a Russian stadium to watch a World Cup match Friday and many sat on bleachers outside the stadium. Tulane Russian architecture historian William Brumfield talked to the New York Times about the unique design.

Children’s book inspires the next generation of doctors

Dr. Ashley Denmark’s daughter, Olivia, had a front row seat for watching her mom become a physician. When Denmark started medical school, she was nine months pregnant with Olivia, who is now 6 and who serves as the inspiration for a new children’s book, Olivia’s Doctor Adventures, published earlier this year.

Earth beneath dumpsite offers clues to racial massacre

From Somaliland to El Salvador, Peru to Guatemala, Davette Gadison has brought her passion for justice to her studies in forensic anthropology — drawn to mass gravesites in countries torn apart by civil war.

This spring, however, Gadison stayed right here in southeast Louisiana.

Bright ideas

Physics graduate student Vera Ji, right, explains photolithography to LightLab program participant Willo Rachel during the one-week research session in the lab of Matthew Escarra, assistant professor in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering. Participating middle school students are from Paul Habans Charter School in Algiers.

Tulane team picked for invention reality show ‘Make48’

A team from Tulane University is one of 12 collegiate teams nationwide selected to compete in the APT/PBS reality show “Make48.” The competition will be taped Aug. 10-12 at the Stanley Black and Decker Innovation Lab near Baltimore.