Researchers at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine have received $11 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to continue their ground-breaking research and programmatic activity in support of family planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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.
Melina Calmon Silva, a PhD candidate in physical anthropology at Tulane University, worked as a volunteer with Operation Identification, a forensic anthropology program that helps identify individuals who have died crossing the Mexican-U.S. border.
Mellon Fellow Taofeeq Adebayo, a Tulane University PhD student in linguistics, with the help of collaborators, translated a science textbook from English and will use it in Nigerian classrooms in November.
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.
Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz, a senior in the School of Liberal Arts, traveled to St. Petersburg to conduct research on Turkology manuscripts in the original Russian. The project will form her honors thesis.
The Department of State and Defense Threat Reduction welcomed Angela Birnbaum, director of the Tulane Office of Biosafety, to its summer tour in Zanzibar and Dubai.