Advanced cancer patients can live longer with palliative care, Tulane study says
November 27, 2018
Outpatient palliative care can improve survival duration as well as quality of life in advanced cancer patients.
Tulane professor receives NIH supplement for Alzheimer’s research
November 20, 2018
There are 5.7 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to Alzheimers.org, and the dreaded disease has caused more deaths than both breast and prostate cancer combined. Finding a cure is paramount.
Tulane awarded $8.5 million contract to develop next-generation whooping cough vaccine
November 14, 2018
The National Institutes of Health awarded Tulane University School of Medicine a contract for up to $8.5 million over five years to develop a more effective and longer-lasting vaccine against pertussis, more commonly known as “whooping cough.”
Tulane archaeologist co-authors first details on remains of 450-year-old Spanish fort
November 01, 2018
Chris Rodning, the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts’ Department of Anthropology, has co-authored a major paper on the archaeology of a Spanish colonial fort built in 1566 at the Berry site, a large Native American town in present-day North Carolina.
Tulane professor argues for science at Oxford Union
October 26, 2018
Math and physics professor Frank Tipler was invited to debate the proposition “science alone can never answer our biggest questions” at the University of Oxford.
Lessons from Peru
October 25, 2018
Biomedical engineering students travel to Peru for health care insight.
Prostate cancer patients target of new $1.6M Tulane study
October 16, 2018
Tulane researcher wins grant to develop a tool that could lower tumor recurrence in cancer patients.
Fun happens
October 02, 2018
Curiosity + fun = knowledge during the fall 2018 Boys At Tulane in STEM event.
Unprecedented study confirms massive scale of lowland Maya civilization
September 27, 2018
Tulane researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala, have published their results in Science.
A Tulane internship of seismic proportions
September 26, 2018
High school senior studies earthquakes with Tulane seismologists.
Hope for the dying
September 20, 2018
On Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values of Tulane School of Medicine will host professor, writer and bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan of New York University School of Medicine in a lecture titled “The Ethics of Compassion: Requests for Unapproved Drugs and the Right to Try.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
Mad about science
September 18, 2018
The School of Science and Engineering expands with the emergence of the uptown science district.
Tulane archaeologist leads team to major Maya find
September 12, 2018
A team of archaeologists co-led by Tulane University professor Marcello A. Canuto has discovered a nearly 1,500-year old carved altar.
Surface control
August 21, 2018
In a Tulane lab, researchers work toward controlling how quickly plastic biodegrades.