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Maker-in-training

Tulane senior and Maker Ninja Chase Schober, left, watches closely as first-year student Addie Duncan tightens a drill bit on a precision drill press at the MakerSpace. Schober was introducing Duncan to a variety of equipment in the facility as part of safety training needed to operate certain machines. Once trained, Duncan will be authorized to use the facility to develop her ideas into actual 3-D objects. Open to all Tulane affiliates, MakerSpace is located in the former machine shop on Engineering Road on the uptown campus.

Kimberly Foster named dean of Tulane School of Science and Engineering

Kimberly Foster, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), will become the new dean of the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering.

The appointment, announced by Tulane Provost Robin Forman and President Michael Fitts, is effective August 1, 2018.

A member of the UCSB faculty since 1999, Foster has a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University.

River flooding and a hot sauce shortage

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From flooding on the Mississippi to the lasting impact of the show Portlandia, Tulane experts took on a number of different topics. Here’s the latest Tulane News in Review.

Tulane University professor Walter Isaacson appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk Trump.

Isaacson also recently appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Alley.

All around town

Tulane’s uptown campus is home to state-of-the-art research laboratories that provide access to highly sophisticated core resources to pursue cutting-edge research. Not far away, in downtown New Orleans, is the Tulane University Health Sciences Center, which includes the Tulane Medical Center, the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the School of Social Work. The Tulane National Primate Research Center, located in Covington, Louisiana, is another research hub for the university.

Making Waves Across Generations: Brian Barcelo, ME ‘65

He’s never had the pigments formally checked, but it’s safe to say that Brian Barcelo’s (Engineering 1965) blood runs olive and blue. Son of a large native New Orleans family, Barcelo’s father, brothers, and uncles all attended Tulane, his aunts worked on staff at the university, and his wife Gail, too, was a Newcomb grad.

And now, fifty-three years after he graduated, Barcelo continues to propagate the next generation of the Green Wave.

Engineering grad nurtures love for medicine

Tulane-trained engineer Jorge E. Nagel once helped doctor a robotic car to a historic finish in a U.S. Defense Department–sponsored race. Now he’s engineering a new career for himself as a first-year student at Tulane School of Medicine.

Nagel is the recipient of a 2017 medical school scholarship presented by LAMMICO, a liability insurer for medical professionals that awards a scholarship to one incoming first-year student at each of Louisiana’s three medical schools.

Royal Society of Chemistry honors Tulane professor

Bruce Gibb, a chemistry professor in the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry.

Clear liquids

Liquid media are stored in the lab of Nicholas Sandoval in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The liquids contain nutrients to grow bacteria used in a variety of research applications.

Girl code: Tulane women share love for tech careers

A flyer advertising a Python coding workshop on the uptown campus changed the career trajectory for one first-year student at Tulane University.

“I had never coded in my life, but I thought that it sounded interesting so I took a chance and went,” said Tatiana Derouen, who is now a Tulane senior.

Professor searches for clues to predict volcanic eruptions

Near the eastern coast of Africa, a tectonic rift in Earth’s ancient crust is yielding clues about the effects of molten rock, or magma, on continental breakup.