It’s a valuable opportunity when undergraduates can collaborate on research with university faculty, and programs like the Summer Materials Research at Tulane – Research Experience for Undergraduates (SMART-REU) are creating more such possibilities. The SMART-REU is a 10-week summer program that brings in undergraduate students from across the country and pairs them with Tulane faculty in chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry or physics/engineering physics.

New Orleans lawyer Kim M. Boyle, far left, is creating a scholarship fund to improve diversity at Tulane.

Two exhibitions that explore the experiences of communities impacted by pollution and its effect on health and environment open Aug. 21 at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University.

A Tulane University anthropologist is among a team of researchers who have uncovered evidence of extreme and violent warfare leading to widespread destruction of a Maya civilization nearly 1,500 years ago.

Researchers, including two from Tulane University, have identified a new species of pocket shark, following careful study of a pocket shark that made international headlines in 2015.

The Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane is offering free material for teaching students about social impact careers.

Geetha Parthasarathy, PhD, a research scientist at Tulane National Primate Research Center, received the 2019 Laure Woods Emerging Leader Award from the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, to be a catalyst for future research, particularly in the areas of Lyme diagnostics and novel therapies. She was awarded a $100,000 grant.