June 21, 2017
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Tulane University’s Upward Bound program two grants totaling $2.5 million, doubling the size of the program that facilitates and supports college readiness and access for first-generation college students.
June 20, 2017
The Pesika Lab Group works to help control mosquito-related diseases worldwide.
June 20, 2017
Two Tulane University researchers produced a report that shows Louisiana’s funding options to pay for coastal restoration; they presented their findings to the state’s Advisory Committee on Coastal Protection in March.
June 16, 2017
Tulane University Law School has named Kim Talus, a renowned scholar of energy law, as inaugural holder of the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law.
June 15, 2017
Kids in the Woods summer camp at A Studio in the Woods allows youngsters to get eye-to-eye with nature and use art projects to represent their experiences. Tulane faculty collaborate with area art teachers to design the camp curriculum.
June 14, 2017
Researchers at Tulane University have developed a subsidence map of coastal Louisiana, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch per year.
June 13, 2017
As we head into peak mosquito season, a recent study in Nature co-authored by a Tulane University researcher has some good news for those worried about Zika this summer.
June 13, 2017
A Tulane University research professor is teaming up on a $200,000 grant to help the Isle de Jean Charles community of Native Americans build resilience in the face of climate change and other social and environmental challenges.
June 06, 2017
The Sandoval lab research team is working to develop microbes that will help with therapeutics, sustainable fuel and chemical production.
June 06, 2017
A Tulane endocrinologist has co-authored a guide in the latest issue of Cell Metabolism to help scientists who study obesity, diabetes or other metabolic diseases better account for inherent sex differences in research.
June 01, 2017
A team of scientists, including virologists from Tulane University, have for the first time mapped the molecular structure of an elusive surface protein on the Lassa virus that allows the pathogen to infect human cells. The breakthrough, more than a decade in the making, is featured on the cover of Science.
May 16, 2017
An interdisciplinary team from Tulane University’s bioinnovation and biomedical engineering departments has won the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) in Mountain View, California, receiving a first-place prize of $30,000.
May 11, 2017
After 17 years as dean, Nick Altiero is leaving his post. He looks back with pride at a record of accomplishment and forward to a bright future for the school.
April 27, 2017
A team from one of the nation’s hottest biotech sectors tapped Tulane Bioinnovation PhD student Nicholas Pashos to join an intensive, four-month program in San Francisco to fast-track high-potential startups.