Tulane professor Caz Taylor has won a $2 million NSF grant to help make coffee growing more sustainable.

Newcomb Art Museum, located on Tulane’s uptown campus, in participation with Prospect New Orleans, invites the community to its galleries for the new exhibition Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow.

Knowledge of the power of medicinal plants has been passed down for thousands of years by native healers worldwide. Science confirms that plants and other organisms often hold the solutions to numerous human medical problems. There is an urgent need to protect the environment of critical ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.

A team of Tulane University engineers and scientists has received funding to establish a recycling program that uses glass sand to prevent coastal land loss.

With the help of more than $700,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator Program,  the Tulane team will work with the New Orleans-based glass recycling center Glass Half Full to develop a plan to divert glass from landfills and turn it into glass sand products to restore coastal communities and preserve historic sites.  

Disaster mental health experts from the Tulane University School of Social Work offer explanations for what people are experiencing and how they can best look after their well-being in the aftermath.

Trellis, an enterprise from The Cowen Institute at Tulane University, has joined 15 postsecondary education providers to launch the Hybrid College Network (HCN), a national coalition dedicated to helping non-traditional students find a path to college.
 

Erica Woodley, assistant vice president and dean of students at Tulane, is a recipient of the Young Leadership Council’s (YLC) Role Model Award, to be bestowed in September.