Victoria Belancio, PhD, of the School of Medicine and the Tulane Cancer Center, was recently awarded a Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Award Grant to support her team's work to identify possible biomarkers and genetic variations associated with a higher risk for aggressive metastatic prostate cancer.
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The School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) has launched a Master of Teaching degree to develop more certified teachers for Louisiana schools. Eligible students who enroll in the new degree program can receive a full tuition scholarship plus a $5,000 stipend when they commit to teaching in Orleans Parish for three years after earning the degree. Read more on the SoPA News website.
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Donna Brazile, author, strategist and chair of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, recently visited the Newcomb-Tulane College (NTC) Office of Fellowship Advising to learn more about the university's Fulbright student strategy. From left: Cindy Oufnac, Interim NTC Dean J. Celeste Lay, Brazile and Cathy Marques. Read more on the Newcomb-Tulane College website.
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New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS) and TU Libraries invite the public to “Art and Insurgency: A Conversation with the Co-curators and Artists of Insurgent Ecologies,” which takes place from 1-2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, in Room 603 of the Howard Tilton Memorial Library (7001 Freret St.). Panelists include Imani Jacqueline Brown, Shana M. griffin, Renee Royale and Hannah Chalew. Insurgent Ecologies, co-organized by NOCGS, Antenna Gallery and the Newcomb Art Department, envisions “resisting watersheds of conquest, enslavement, and extraction along the Mississippi River, and engages artwork, projects, and collaborative initiatives across the Mississippi watershed that disrupt systems of racial enslavement, coloniality, displacement, and industrial encroachment.” This event is free and open to the public. Visit the event Wavesync page for additional information.
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Huffington Post
Elizabeth Engler-Chiurazzi, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine, has said more work needs to be done to understand why infections affect the brain and how to quickly mitigate those effects.
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Christian Science Monitor
Tulane’s ReCoast initiative says that without a glass manufacturer nearby, turning recyclable glass into new glass would be more capital and energy intensive than making sand.
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Governing
Sheriffs may be getting the message that they can make the decision about what is constitutional or not, says Mirya Holman, a political scientist at the School of Liberal Arts who studies sheriffs.
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