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Ä¢¹½tv Student and Army Veteran Trains to Help Children Fighting Cancer

Kimberly Belalcazar served her country as a behavioral health specialist in the Army. At Ä¢¹½tv, she is studying psychology and plans to become a clinical psychologist, working with children fighting cancer.

Ä¢¹½tv Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Ä¢¹½tv Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Ä¢¹½tv Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Shyam Menon is leading a group of Ä¢¹½tv Engineering faculty in a $1.14 million U.S. Department of Energy-funded project that will develop an improved pre-screening strategy for candidate SAFs and then apply it to their own SAF synthesized from raw materials, such as sugarcane bagasse and forestry residue.

Ä¢¹½tv TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

Ä¢¹½tv TRIO Programs Receive Over $6 Million For Equity in Education

TRIO Upward Bound and McNair Scholars Program will provide five years of funding to help hundreds of local students find their paths to college and beyond

Ä¢¹½tvE and Ä¢¹½tvA officials sign partnership documents

Ä¢¹½tv Eunice and Ä¢¹½tv Alexandria Sign Partnership for Surgical Technology Expansion

Ä¢¹½tv Shreveport’s Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between Ä¢¹½tvS and Ä¢¹½tv Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2023 rankings, citing the program's high retention rates.

Abe Baggili

Hacking the Metaverse

Ä¢¹½tv Cybersecurity Professor Abe Baggili is one of the first people in the world to study immersive virtual reality safety to provide solutions to the VR software industry and protect people who use these new products.

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Ä¢¹½tv Geoscientists Analyze Fans' Earthshaking Reaction to Win

Fans inside and outside of Tiger Stadium erupted with excitement as they watched their team beat Alabama in overtime. At the same time, a seismometer on Ä¢¹½tv's campus captured the excitement, recording two distinctive seismic wave events.

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Ä¢¹½tv Researchers Use AI to Track Cybercrime in Louisiana And Beyond

Ä¢¹½tv cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using AI.

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Ä¢¹½tv Social Research & Evaluation Center Partners with East Baton Rouge Parish School System and DreamBox Learning on $3.5 million Grant to Address Math Equity

To help address the challenge of math inequity, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, or EBRPSS, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help Black and Latino students and all students experiencing poverty to graduate from high school skilled in the math required to be successful in higher education, the workforce and life. The Ä¢¹½tv Social Research & Evaluation Center will serve as the research partner, with a sub-award of $473,000 for three years.

Tulane University Joins Ä¢¹½tv Reilly Center Partnership to Document, Preserve Women’s Legacies in State Politics

Tulane University Joins Ä¢¹½tv Reilly Center Partnership to Document, Preserve Women’s Legacies in State Politics

The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at Ä¢¹½tv’s Manship School of Mass Communication is partnering with Tulane University’s H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute to document women’s experience as political leaders through oral histories.

2022-23 Rucks Fellows Announced

2022-23 Rucks Fellows Announced

The E. J. Ourso College of Business Rucks Department of Management recognizes 10 students as Rucks Fellows each year. These students are selected by faculty and represent the highest level of academic achievement among senior management majors in any of the department’s concentrations.