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Welcome to the future of Tulane

Campaign plans are in place to propel Tulane University into a grand future. See highlights from Friday’s events where the $1.3 billion fundraising goal was announced. View the video below. The full video from the Big Reveal can be viewed here.

Art-o-facts

Tulane second-year students Helen Weierbach, center, and Sian Grosskopf, right, discuss Landen Density, artwork by Katherine Strasser and Victor Moll, left, professor of mathematics, at the opening of the 2017 Computational Art Show. Sponsored by the Center for Computational Science, the annual exhibit features computer-generated works that illustrate current research across the fields of bio-mathematics, physics, epidemiology, biology, physiology and engineering.

Loss of wintering grounds hits a sad note for common songbird

A Tulane University researcher who studies bird migration has found that a decline in the number of wood thrushes is probably due to deforestation in Central America, not to the loss and degrading of forest in the United States where the songbird breeds.

The study by Caz Taylor, an associate professor in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was published Nov. 6 in the open-access journal Scientific Reports.

Extraction action

Meysam Shahami, a doctoral student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, extracts reacted benzene in the lab of Daniel Shantz. The solution will be used to analyze how much phenol is produced using a one-step reaction. Researchers hope to simplify the process of producing phenol which is used to make soft and hard plastics.

Society of Tulane Engineers reconnects alumni

The alumni group the Society of Tulane Engineers (STE) strives to create new ties between Tulane graduates and the School of Science and Engineering (SSE).

Three Minute Thesis competition polishes academic communication skills

“Three minutes. One slide.”

Those were the two rules set forth by Michael Cunningham, Tulane psychology professor and associate provost for the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Wednesday at the start of the third annual Three Minute Thesis competition on the uptown campus.

Capital One lends support to girls’ STEM workshop at Tulane

Cheers filled a room in Richardson Memorial Hall on Tulane’s uptown campus Saturday as 147 middle-school girls responded to a series of questions. Did you become a mathemagician? Did you hold the tarantula? Did you touch a human brain?

Tulane receives $1.7 million grant from Department of Defense for blood vessel research

Tulane University’s Stryder Meadows, a cell and molecular biology professor, received a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Defense to study how arteriovenous malformations (AVM), which are defects in arteries, veins and capillaries, form Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), a genetic disorder that affects about 1 in 5,000 people.

Study looks at link between ice sheet and climate change

A Tulane University geologist is among a team of scientists studying an ancient Canadian ice sheet to determine if its collapse could be a preview of future climate change.

Brent Goehring, an assistant professor in the Tulane Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, conducted the study of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in western Canada with researchers from the University of Northern British Columbia and several other universities.

Global tech company sparks interest in artificial intelligence jobs

Expert engineers from one of the world’s most influential technology companies encouraged Tulane students to pursue careers in data science and artificial intelligence Wednesday during the Intel Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workshop