Tulane’s family planning research continues in the DRC with $11 million Gates/Packard grant
November 13, 2018
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).
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.
Of missing persons, unidentified remains and cold cases
October 31, 2018
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.
Yoruba science textbook will be put to the test
October 31, 2018
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.
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.
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.
Russian manuscripts key to student’s research
September 25, 2018
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.
Tulane Law School conference to feature top media experts
September 21, 2018
Tulane Law School set to host freedom of the press conference.
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.
Remember together
September 11, 2018
College Democrats and Republicans unite to honor lives lost on 9/11.
Risky business: Expert conducts biosafety world tour
August 29, 2018
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.