Tulane University shares in $20 million NIH grant to LA CaTS
February 20, 2018
Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center with funding to aid researchers in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport in their work over the next five years.
Photo opportunity
February 14, 2018
Tulane researchers get hands-on experience with Nikon’s advanced imaging technology.
Tulane MakerSpace an inspiration to New Orleans schools
February 08, 2018
Tulane University is adding an outreach component to its already successful MakerSpace program.
Keeping watch
January 30, 2018
A portrait of Corinne C. “Lindy” Boggs graces the lobby of the Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology.
Tulane University presents panel discussion on artificial intelligence
January 26, 2018
The advent and consequences of superhuman intelligence will be the subject of a panel discussion Feb. 1 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Freeman Auditorium, located in the Woldenberg Art Center on the uptown campus of Tulane University.
Tulane team testing hybrid solar energy converter
January 23, 2018
A Tulane University researcher is leading a U.S. Department of Energy project to develop a hybrid solar energy converter that generates electricity and steam with high efficiency and low cost.
Health, heroes and the #MeToo movement
January 19, 2018
Tulane University made national headlines this week for a study that found genetically overweight people to benefit most from healthy eating, a student deemed a hero by Bill Gates, and a conversation about how colleges were first to witness the #MeToo movement. View the video.
Tulane School of Medicine launches immersion program for biotech execs and investors visiting the Big Easy
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.
Bill Gates names Tulane student a ‘hero in the field’
January 04, 2018
Philanthropist Bill Gates has named Dr. Adaora Okoli, a graduate student in the Tulane School of Public Health, to a list that identifies little-known individuals helping to save the world.
Sand exploration
January 02, 2018
Scientists seek to improve the response to oil-contaminated beaches.
Tulane awarded $3.67 million grant for quantum computing
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.
Tulane University names $1 million winner of Nitrogen Reduction Challenge
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.
Study finds Lyme bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment months after infection
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.