January 16, 2018
A new study out of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, led by assistant professor of epidemiology Katherine Mills, analyzed published research on blood pressure intervention strategies and found that multilevel, multicomponent interventions were best at helping patients control their hypertension.
January 09, 2018
Users of social media promoted two-way conversations about healthy behaviors. Social media like Twitter can be an effective way to communicate between public health practitioners and their audiences.
January 09, 2018
A new study, co-authored by Joshua Yukich of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, found that the cost of switching insecticides to control mosquitoes in malaria-stricken areas might be manageable for regions that deal with insecticide resistance.
January 08, 2018
Tulane University School of Medicine has launched a new In-Residence Immersion Program that offers biotech executives, venture capitalists, scientists and entrepreneurs visiting New Orleans from across the country a fully functional on-the-go workspace on its downtown campus.
January 02, 2018
Two scholars, Bonnie Lucero and Emma Shakeshaft, have joined Newcomb College Institute’s research community, identifying how gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity and community shape law. Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
January 02, 2018
Scientists seek to improve the response to oil-contaminated beaches.
January 02, 2018
Tulane University professor Michael Mislove has received a $3.67 million grant to help develop cutting-edge technology related to quantum computing.
December 22, 2017
Adults trying to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight may benefit from increasing their physical activity level, even individuals predisposed to obesity, suggests a study led by Tulane University in collaboration with investigators from Harvard University.
December 19, 2017
Yuchen Zhang, assistant professor of management at the Freeman School of Business, found that the amount of tech jargon featured in a Kickstarter project’s description could affect its financing.
December 19, 2017
A study involving Tulane researchers identifies a therapy that may be a better treatment for tuberculosis. The research results are published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
December 19, 2017
Among the Louisiana Research Collection’s 2017 acquisitions, particularly notable are the papers of prominent Louisiana gay activists Stewart Butler, Rich Magill, Alan Robinson and Skip Ward. Acquiring significant LGBTQ-related documents — letters, diaries, flyers and other materials — is one of the Louisiana Research Collection’s special focuses.
December 14, 2017
Tulane University awarded the $1 million grand prize in the Tulane Nitrogen Reduction Challenge to Adapt-N, a team that developed a computer modeling system to predict optimum nitrogen application rates for crops using data on weather, field conditions and soil management practices.
December 13, 2017
The bacteria that causes Lyme disease can survive in organ tissue after treatment with a full course of antibiotics months after infection, according to a new primate study of the disease by Tulane University researchers.