Judith Maxwell, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the School of Liberal Arts and a member of the Etowah tribe, is making strides to debunk misinformation as well as spread knowledge and understanding about Indigenous cultures through her work and the program she founded and directs, the Native American Studies Minor.
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Jacob Edwards, Tulane Law graduate, is the 2022 Tulane Louisiana State Bar Association Pro Bono Award recipient. Edwards was honored for performing 418 hours of pro bono work. Edwards performed pro bono service at Disability Rights Louisiana, where he assisted clients seeking reasonable accommodations and appropriate living conditions, and at the Federal Community Defender of Eastern Michigan, where he assisted with federal indigent defense. Read More
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The School of Medicine has produced a new podcast, Bio from the Bayou, in collaboration with LSU Health New Orleans. The podcast brings listeners biotech conversations from the Gulf Coast region. The podcast’s first episode is co-hosted by James Zanewicz (left) of the School of Medicine and Patrick Reed (right) of LSU Health New Orleans. Read More
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Bioengineer.org
“Simplicity is key,” says Dr. Nassir Marrouche, director of the Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute and The Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discoveries at the School of Medicine. Marrouche led a study that shows a simple approach to atrial fibrillation is usually best.
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Nature
Matthew Escarra, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at the School of Science and Engineering, and colleagues have developed a prototype device dubbed the “Sunflower” system that can convert 65% of the sun’s energy that the device captures into electricity or heat.
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NPR
“Anybody who was on the margin of graduating at that point was going to graduate because the states officially relaxed their standards,” says Douglas Harris, economics chair at the School of Liberal Arts and director of the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, of the effect of the pandemic on high schools’ graduation rates during the 2019-2020 school year.
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