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Tulane Engineering Students Design New Inhaler to Help Patients With Lung Disease
A team of Tulane biomedical engineering seniors is designing a new type of inhaler that could help patients with severe lung disease receive medication more effectively.
The students are developing an enhanced dry powder inhaler designed specifically for people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease that weakens breathing capacity over time. The goal is simple but challenging: deliver medicine deep into the lungs for patients who physically cannot generate a strong enough breath to use most inhalers.
Playing for Attention: How Babies Learn to Focus
Eight-month-old Joseph sits in a high chair, his tray filled with toys. He reaches for one and looks over at his mother beside him who is smiling and talking softly. He turns back to his toys, unfazed by the camera pointed at him or the researcher sitting behind him.
From finance and engineering to theater and AI, students partner with nonprofits to turn coursework into community change
Donning lab coats, goggles and gloves, fifth graders at Esperanza Middle School had a mystery on their hands. They had to figure out how one of their classmates became ill after eating a cookie at lunch.
Students Launch FUSE Internship Program Connecting Tulane STEM Talent with Startups
Amy Nguyen expected her summer internship to be close to home.
When the FUSE internship program was introduced to students in Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering, the opportunity was framed as a way to connect undergraduates with startup companies through partnerships in New Orleans. Nguyen, a biomedical engineering student from New Orleans, applied partly because the idea of staying in the city sounded convenient.
Reducing the Quantum Queue: Tulane Researcher Proposes Smarter Hardware Sharing
Using a quantum computer today often means waiting. Sometimes that means waiting behind hundreds, even a thousand other users.
“Most of the time, the waiting time is much longer than the actual execution time,” said Jiyuan Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University.
That inefficiency is what Wang and his collaborators set out to address.
Tulane Undergraduate Bridges Science and Business in Breakthrough Biotherapeutics Research
While many undergraduates spend their college years focused solely on coursework, Tulane University student Sylvia Austin has taken on a role that blends cutting-edge scientific research with real-world market analysis, helping to advance a technology that could transform how pharmaceutical companies develop life-saving biologic drugs.
