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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.

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Tulane researchers hope AI will speed up the search for one of science's 'holy grails'

 

More than a century ago, a Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes earned a Nobel Prize in physics by discovering the world's first “superconductor,” a material that can transfer electricity without heating up and losing energy.

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From Deep-Sea Corals to Alpine Dragonflies: Tulane SSE Welcomes Professor Jaymes Awbrey

Dr. Jaymes Awbrey joins Tulane as a Professor of Practice in Marine Biology, bringing deep-sea expertise and practical teaching methods.

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Tulane researchers seek to advance cardiovascular disease prevention through artificial intelligence and community-based care

Tulane's Heartline initiative combines AI with community-based care to prevent cardiovascular disease and promote sustainable lifestyle changes.

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How bats tolerate viruses: Tulane study sheds light on one of nature’s biggest immune mysteries

Tulane researchers discovered bats possess two distinct antibody gene copies, unlike other mammals, potentially explaining their viral tolerance.

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Bridging the Lab and the Classroom: Tulane Researcher Secures $1M NSF CAREER Award for Organ-on-a-Chip Innovation

For many, the idea of holding a living, functional human blood vessel network in the palm of your hand sounds like science fiction. But at Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering (SSE), it is a daily reality that is driving the next generation of biomedical discovery.