A solution to world’s dead zones could be growing on this Louisiana farm
November 21, 2017
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.
Tulane student researchers add indigenous voices to state's history
November 21, 2017
Enrolled in a course called Indian Tribes Down The Bayou: Native American Communities of Southeastern Louisiana, first-year Tulane students presented historical documentation projects to visitors attending the cultural festival at Vermilionville, a living history museum in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Tastes like Mamma's
November 21, 2017
Need a traditional recipe for Thanksgiving dinner? Look no further than the LaRC's cookbook collection.
Carnegie grant fuels Tulane efforts to send more public school grads to college
November 20, 2017
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.
Seeing green
November 14, 2017
School of Medicine researcher uses cutting-edge imaging to study how aging and injury affect the brain.
Tulane receives $1.7 million grant from Department of Defense for blood vessel research
November 14, 2017
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 professor leads team in redefining blood pressure guidelines
November 14, 2017
Tulane epidemiology professor Dr. Paul Whelton led the team behind this week’s blockbuster announcement redefining high blood pressure for the first time in 14 years. The new guidelines lower the threshold for diagnosis, resulting in almost half of U.S. adults now considered hypertensive.
Environmental control
November 07, 2017
Tulane researchers contribute to development of new pharmaceuticals.
Land-building can reduce carbon dioxide in atmosphere, study shows
November 07, 2017
Alex Kolker, a Tulane professor of earth and environmental sciences and a researcher with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, contributed to a study of the Wax Lake Delta of the Atchafalaya River that shows land building removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Tulane researcher investigates link between maternal age and DNA damage in children
November 07, 2017
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.
Tulane psychiatrist wins prestigious award for foster care research
October 31, 2017
A Tulane professor of child psychiatry is part of a team that has been awarded the 2017 Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research. The award recognizes important advances in the understanding and treatment of early-onset brain and behavior disorders. Dr. Charles Zeanah, the Mary Peters Sellars-Polchow Chair in Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, shares the award with two fellow researchers.
NIH awards $11.3 million grant to Tulane Center for Aging
October 31, 2017
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.
Community concern
October 24, 2017
The Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane is the official archive for a number of social agencies from the New Orleans area.
NIH awards Tulane $2.65 million to boost research in women’s health, sex differences
October 24, 2017
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University $2.65 million to continue its successful program to develop more researchers studying women’s health and how disease progression and treatment differ in women.
Inventor of noir, gangster and heist films is subject of English professor’s latest research
October 24, 2017
While researching for his book The Origins of Cool in Postwar America, Joel Dinerstein, professor of English at Tulane University, discovered screenwriter W. R. Burnett’s role in developing the first film noir, gangster and heist films.