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From groundbreaking research and major funding wins to new leadership and student milestones, the Tulane School of Science and Engineering community is driving discovery at every level. Explore the latest news highlighting the faculty, students, and researchers shaping the future of science and engineering — in the lab, in the classroom, and across the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Apple’s Lisa Jackson to address ASEE in New Orleans
Tulane University alumna Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, and former head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, will speak in New Orleans during the American Society for Engineering Education’s 123rd annual conference. The event takes place in the New Orleans Convention Center from June 23 through June 29.
Tulane duo working to make 3-D printing more efficient
Competition was stiff, but in the end, Tulane University associate professor of computer science Ramgopal Mettu and 2015 Tulane graduate Samuel Lensgraf came up winners.
Tulane women in tech
It’s an industrywide problem: Fewer women than men practice computer science.
Fast Company reported in March 2016 on a new study by the financial software and data firm Smart Asset that U.S. women make up only 26.5 percent of the tech workforce. And women earn, on average, just 85 percent of what male workers do in similar positions.
Faculty win brings opportunity for students
It is considered the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious junior faculty award program, and this year, Tulane University assistant professor Julie Albert is in the CAREER award's class of 2016.
Albert, the Robert and Gayle Longmire Early Career Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is one of 160 recipients from 88 institutions across the United States. She will receive $500,000 to come up with an efficient manufacturing method for the production of tailor-made polymer thin films.
Physics grad adds research to resume
In August 2012, as a freshman from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Skylar Deckoff-Jones never expected to be a role model to those involved in the science and research departments at Tulane University.
App keeps weddings on track
When Tulane University alumni Allison Shipp and Jonathan Brouk were married in New Orleans on Oct.
Student researchers present their ‘novel’ ideas
Eight teams of student researchers went toe-to-toe on April 13 during the second annual Tulane Novel Tech Challenge, a competition that empowers students to improve the environment, human health, education and urban infrastructure through technology.
Following brief, pitch-style presentations, a panel of judges chose two winning teams, and a third team took home the crowd favorite prize.
The Future Celebrated: Research Day in the School of Science and Engineering
On any given day of the year, innovation and experimentation characterize the research conducted in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane. New publications, insights, and applications arise from researchers in the School on a regular basis, advancing their fields and shaping our world. Yet on one special day each spring, those advances are singled out for special recognition: at the annual SSE Research Day, held this year on April 8.
Naval ROTC midshipmen stand at attention as Captain Chris Harbiston examines their formation during a squad drill competition on Thursday morning (March 31) on the Tulane University uptown campus.
In the mid-1800s, the United States was not on the forefront of scientific innovation — Europe dominated the field. That makes it all the more fascinating that two of the most groundbreaking scientific inventions in microscopy occurred in the United States at Tulane University, says alumnus Lary Walker.
Grad student develops new approach to breast restoration
Each year more than 230,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States and approximately 180,000 undergo mastectomies.