Researchers recently confirmed that significant sea-level change is linked to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Sönke Dangendorf, the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor in the Tulane Department of River-Coastal Engineering, played a key role in the findings by analyzing sea surface height changes from satellite measurements around Greenland.
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The Tulane community has a new, futuristic food delivery service — a league of 30 petite, semi-autonomous robots known as Kiwibots. They roll across campus, R2D2-style, to make deliveries at requested drop-off locations. Read more on the Tulane news site.
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Memorable movies, from 22 Jump Street, Bad Moms, Kristy and John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief, have been filmed on the streets of New Orleans and the Tulane uptown campus for decades. Read more on the Tulanian site.
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The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will host the annual Three Minute Thesis Competition on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. in the Kendall-Cram Lecture Hall in the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. The competition celebrates exciting research conducted by current PhD students. The competition supports students’ capacity to effectively and concisely explain their research to a non-specialist audience. Visit the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website for more information.
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Biz New Orleans
Bernhard, a Metairie-based engineering firm, has committed to hiring 360 Tulane graduates over the next three decades.
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Bloomberg Law
Of Elon Musk’s latest claims that usage of Twitter is at “an all-time high,” Ann Lipton, Tulane Law professor, warns that any inaccurate statements he makes about the platform’s metrics could constitute fraud on advertisers.
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The Bump
Research by Feng Chen, PhD graduate of the economics department at the School of Liberal Arts, indicates that three months of paid parental leave in the United States could save nearly a thousand babies’ lives per year.
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