Innovation
Tulane continues to foster innovation through initiatives focused on addressing critical global challenges such as climate change and exploring cutting-edge fields like artificial intelligence.
Child-size Wheelchairs
Highlighted on CBS News, biomedical engineering students partnered with the nonprofit MakeGood to create training wheelchairs, or mobility trainers, for children with conditions like spina bifida, cerebral palsy and limb deficiencies. The ongoing service-learning project, under the leadership of Senior Professor of Practice Katherine Raymond, PhD, helps prepare children for full-sized wheelchairs, addressing a need not typically covered by insurance.
Coastal, Climate Change Research
Tulane is taking a leading role in pioneering research to address coastal degradation, climate change mitigation and the energy transition in Louisiana. Tulane and LSU were awarded $22 million by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a 15-member consortium focusing on the future of the Lower Mississippi River Delta region.
Data Science Research and Teaching
The Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science opens thanks to a $12 million gift from longtime Tulane supporters Libby (’84) and Robert Alexander. The gift will advance a university-wide data science initiative that will transform teaching and research across all disciplines at Tulane and position the university as a leader in data pedagogy. The institute will fuel a more ambitious future of meaningful exploration and discovery.
