Topic: science
Science Fair
Hundreds of middle and high school students participated in the Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair, held on the uptown campus in the spring. Promising students in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes were nominated to participate by their schools. Judges included faculty and students from the School of Science and Engineering.https://tulane.it/science-fair
Priddy Family Foundation Pledges $1 Million to Tulane Brain Institute
Tulane University’s Brain Institute received a $1 million pledge from the Priddy Family Foundation to endow and establish the Priddy Family Spark Research Endowed Fund.
New Donor Fund is Flexible, Easy
Alan and Katy Stone want to play a part in supporting the university’s future.
Monique Cola: Scientist & Principal
Monique Cola (G ’04) trained as a neuroscientist, then pivoted to an academic career — for the love of research. Now, as principal of Sci High, she encourages high schoolers to be STEM-literate and to consider STEM careers.
Quoted: Nicholas Kerry
“People get more conservative with age. It occurred to me that parenting might have a role in this.” -NICHOLAS KERRY, PhD student in psychology in the School of Science and Engineering, in Futurity.https://tulane.it/Nicholas-Kerry-futurity
Life and Survival on the Gulf Coast
During this era of rapid climate change and other environmental stresses, community ecologists are focused on understanding how the living world works, in all its complexity and diversity, as they find ways that species might thrive and land can be restored.
