Tulane economics professor Nora Lustig was appointed to the G20 Eminent Persons Group, a committee that will study effective global financial governance. Lustig was also named president emerita of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, which she helped found.

Meet brothers Mead and Marshall Hardwick whose family farm partnered with the Tulane Nitrogen Reduction Challenge to help finalists test their ideas on a 20,000-acre farm in northeast Louisiana this summer. Tulane is offering $1 million to the team with the best solution to reduce nitrogen runoff from farming, the culprit behind vast annual "dead zones" in major bodies of water like the Gulf of Mexico.

The Cowen Institute will use a $500,000 grant from philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York  to launch a new research initiative aimed at helping more New Orleans public school graduates — especially socioeconomically disadvantaged youth— enter and complete college. 

Tulane University’s Stryder Meadows, a cell and molecular biology professor, received a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Defense to study how arteriovenous malformations (AVM), which are defects in arteries, veins and capillaries, form Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), a genetic disorder that affects about 1 in 5,000 people.

Tulane researchers contribute to development of new pharmaceuticals.

A Tulane researcher wants to know if, as they get older, parents can more readily pass a specific type of genetic damage down to their children - even if they’re not carriers themselves.

The National Institutes of Health awarded an $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant to the Tulane Center for Aging. The grant, which helps the university support and mentor junior researchers, means an additional five years of funding for the multidisciplinary project that began in 2012.