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  A $1 million gift from Board of Tulane member Lisa Jackson, Apple Inc.’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, and her husband, Kenneth, will double participation in the Newcomb-Tulane College Summer Experience (NTCSE). The program helps newly admitted students from underserved backgrounds get a head start on succeeding at Tulane before fall orientation. Jackson credits a similar program at Tulane with sparking her passion for engineering as a teenager. A top studen...

Apr 15, 2021 Speaking on this occasion, Prof Sharma suggested that the portal should be linked with important sectors such as water, energy, and climate as well as with Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR). SERB-PRISM provides a platform which makes project details, research outcomes, facilities created, and their achievements originating from SERB funding accessible while allowing researchers to look at research trends, learn about cutting-edge science, locate critical equipment in their vic...

Podcast | Making carbon net zero as common nature as health and safety The latest episode of The Engineers Collective looks at the regional challenge of delivering carbon net zero at a regional level and how the mindset of engineers needs to change in order to meet government targets. Joining NCE editor Claire Smith and reporter Catherine Kennedy special guest Waterman regional director for the Midlands Ruth Jeffs talks about what she has learned about carbon net zero through her day to day jo...

Tulane University President Michael Fitts will host the third installment of the Presidential Speaker Series — Mindset: Breaking Barriers — via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The program will feature Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple, and Col. Douglas G. Hurley, a NASA astronaut and Spacecraft Commander on the first crewed test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Both are Tulane alumni, with Jackson (E ’83) holding a bache...

The academic standard of engineering courses offered by MCAST is to be revised to ensure it matches that offered by the University of Malta, the government said on Wednesday as it reassured that it had no intention of lowering standards in the profession.  Experts from a German accreditation agency which specialises in the engineering field, ASIIN, have been evaluating the MCAST course and preparing recommendations about how to amend it, the Education Ministry said. Their work, which began mor...