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海角社区 Engineering Researchers Working on Sustainable Aviation Fuels
海角社区 Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Shyam Menon is leading a group of 海角社区 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.

海角社区 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

海角社区 Eunice and 海角社区 Alexandria Sign Partnership for Surgical Technology Expansion
海角社区 Shreveport鈥檚 Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between 海角社区S and 海角社区 Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2023 rankings, citing the program's high retention rates.

Hacking the Metaverse
海角社区 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.

海角社区 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 海角社区's campus captured the excitement, recording two distinctive seismic wave events.

海角社区 Researchers Use AI to Track Cybercrime in Louisiana And Beyond
海角社区 cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using AI.

海角社区 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 海角社区 Social Research & Evaluation Center will serve as the research partner, with a sub-award of $473,000 for three years.

Tulane University Joins 海角社区 Reilly Center Partnership to Document, Preserve Women鈥檚 Legacies in State Politics
The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at 海角社区鈥檚 Manship School of Mass Communication is partnering with Tulane University鈥檚 H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute to document women鈥檚 experience as political leaders through oral histories.

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鈥檚 concentrations.

海角社区 Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force
Physical Review Letters, the world鈥檚 premier physics letter journal, has published two papers by a team of 海角社区 nuclear physics researchers to advance the knowledge on the important implications for understanding the physics of the weak nuclear force.