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Near the Mississippi’s mouth, scientists are trying to predict the future. ‘A massive effort.’

Down at a bend near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Claire Kemick keeps a close eye on a laptop as the boat that brought her here maneuvers the currents.

A patchwork of colors lights up on the computer screen as an instrument lowered into the mighty waterway delivers data marking a key contrast.

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Controlling Light at the Nanoscale: PhD Student Abdulhafeez Lukmon Builds Photonic Chips in Tulane’s Cleanroom

From Lagos to Tulane’s nanofabrication labs, Lukmon studies materials that can manipulate light while helping pave the way for research in the university’s new micro/nanofabrication cleanroom facility.

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Ishita Pal Helps Tulane Students Find Their Way into Research

SSE’s undergraduate research coordinator brings experience spanning geology, astrophysics and climate science to a new role connecting students with opportunities, mentors and essential research skills.

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Professor Jiang Wei Awarded NSF Grant to Study Hydrogen-Controlled Quantum Materials

NSF awarded $580,800 for research into hydrogen's control of rutile oxide properties for rewritable electronics & synaptic transistors. Funds support research & education.

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Tulane Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Receives NSF EPSCoR Fellowship to Advance Ocean Mercury Modeling

Dr. Yanxu Zhang received an NSF award to update global ocean mercury pollution models with Scripps, enhancing policy tools and Tulane-Scripps collaboration.

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Building a River in the Lab

A $125,000 grant is helping Tulane researchers investigate how floods cause meandering rivers to abandon their bends and carve new paths.

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Tulane University wins rare $6 million National Science Foundation grant — one of only nine nationwide — to build the South’s next innovation engine

Tulane University secured a $6M NSF grant for SMART Tulane, translating research into new tech, products, startups, and jobs in the Gulf South.

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Tulane Researcher Awarded Two NSF Grants to Open Up AI's "Black Box"

Zhengming Ding, an associate professor at Department of Computer Science in Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering, has received two prestigious National Science Foundation awards to advance interpretable artificial intelligence—research focused on making AI systems more transparent, reliable, and understandable to the people who use them.

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The Community That Changed a Career and a Scientific Field

Distinguished Career Award recognizes Tulane professor Nicole Gasparini for advancing open science, mentoring the next generation of researchers and helping reshape computational Earth science.

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Tulane researchers aim to reduce cancer treatment time with new tech

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two years after a presidential visit put a New Orleans cancer research project in the national spotlight, Tulane University researchers are testing a new imaging technology on tissue from cancer surgeries — with the hope that one day it could tell surgeons, within minutes, whether they removed all of a patient’s cancer.