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Fast-a-thon benefits quake relief

Fast-a-thon benefits quake relief

At least 245 students, faculty and staff gathered in Friend Center on Wednesday night to break their fast after fasting for the day to recognize the Islamic holy month and raise money for the earthquake in Pakistan.The Charitable Interfaith Iftar Event, recognizing the meal at which Muslims break the fast, featured food as well as remarks and reflections from a diverse group of speakers.At least $3,000 had been raised from local business owners and other people, who donated for every non-Muslim who fasted.The event, nicknamed the Fast-a-thon, took place in the Islamic month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast between sunrise and sunset.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

Students explore world issues via film

Soraya Umewaka '06 has always had an interest in street children. On summer visits to her mother's native country of Lebanon while growing up, she would compare the lives of the children there to her own."I would go down the street, and they would be selling beach balls.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

Fast-a-thon benefits quake relief

At least 245 students, faculty and staff gathered in Friend Center on Wednesday night to break their fast after fasting for the day to recognize the Islamic holy month and raise money for the earthquake in Pakistan.The Charitable Interfaith Iftar Event, recognizing the meal at which Muslims break the fast, featured food as well as remarks and reflections from a diverse group of speakers.At least $3,000 had been raised from local business owners and other people, who donated for every non-Muslim who fasted.The event, nicknamed the Fast-a-thon, took place in the Islamic month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast between sunrise and sunset.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

Students explore world issues via film

Soraya Umewaka '06 has always had an interest in street children. On summer visits to her mother's native country of Lebanon while growing up, she would compare the lives of the children there to her own."I would go down the street, and they would be selling beach balls.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

Police question Frist assault suspect

A suspect in the attempted assault in a Frist Campus Center bathroom two weeks ago was apprehended and questioned Wednesday by law enforcement authorities.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

University program to help staff finance homes

The University announced this week that it will implement a new housing program, beginning next month, to assist faculty and staff earning low to moderate incomes.In partnership with PNC Bank, the program allows first-time New Jersey homeowners to finance a property without a down payment and gives them access to lower interest rates at a 30-year fixed rate.The program also offers expanded credit criteria, grants toward closing costs and advice from real estate professionals.Participants are required to meet eligibility requirements and take a free homeowner education course taught on campus by PNC representatives."There are hundreds of [University] employees that, judging from their individual salary, would qualify," Executive Vice President Mark Burstein said in an interview.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

East Asian Studies to expand course offerings

In recent years, the University has experienced a substantial enrollment increase in Chinese courses in accordance with a national trend.

NEWS | 10/19/2005

New Orleans scholars keep research alive

When Jean-Godefroy Bidima boarded a plane in Paris on August 30, the words of a flight attendant turned his world upside down.After glancing at his travel itinerary, the flight attendant sympathetically told Bidima ? a professor in Tulane University's French department who had been attending a conference in Paris ? that he would not be able to reach his final destination, New Orleans, because that city's airport was closed.Astonished and confused, Bidima hurried off the plane and retrieved his luggage, then dashed outside the airport to find a newspaper kiosk.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Celia honored for research on groundwater dynamics

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department chair Michael Celia GS '78 '79 '83 has won the American Geophysical Union's annual Hydrology Section Award, the group announced last week."It's an honor to be chosen by a committee of peers and colleagues in the scientific community," Celia said, referring to the awards committee composed of scholars who belong to the American Geophysical Union (AGU).Celia was recognized for his contributions to computational methods in hydrological research on water resources, according to a statement issued by the award committee."I'm very happy to receive this award that speaks so highly of the CEE department," Celia said.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Alum's voice-mail service lets Katrina victims connect

An estimated one million people are still looking for loved ones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

ICC pushes for club access for Tulane students

For the 24 Tulane students currently enrolled at the University, the transition from a hopping New Orleans jazz scene to the Street "took a while to get used to," as Tulane junior Annabelle Rosborough put it.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Alum's voice-mail service lets Katrina victims connect

An estimated one million people are still looking for loved ones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

ICC pushes for club access for Tulane students

For the 24 Tulane students currently enrolled at the University, the transition from a hopping New Orleans jazz scene to the Street "took a while to get used to," as Tulane junior Annabelle Rosborough put it.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Celia honored for research on groundwater dynamics

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department chair Michael Celia GS '78 '79 '83 has won the American Geophysical Union's annual Hydrology Section Award, the group announced last week."It's an honor to be chosen by a committee of peers and colleagues in the scientific community," Celia said, referring to the awards committee composed of scholars who belong to the American Geophysical Union (AGU).Celia was recognized for his contributions to computational methods in hydrological research on water resources, according to a statement issued by the award committee."I'm very happy to receive this award that speaks so highly of the CEE department," Celia said.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Bartels attacks book on red states

Politics professor Larry Bartels recently argued that Tom Frank's New York Times bestseller "What's the Matter with Kansas" tells a misleading story about why the Republican Party is becoming more popular across the mid-western heartland.Bartels presented this argument in a paper ? titled "What's the Matter with 'What's the Matter with Kansas'" ? at an annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.Frank's book asserts that "conservatives won the heart of America" by swaying large numbers of working-class voters to vote against their economic interests on the basis of conservative cultural and social issues.Bartels tested this hypothesis by analyzing patterns of issue preferences, partisanship and voting in National Election Study (NES) survey data.According to Bartels' results, the white working class has not become more conservative.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

New Orleans scholars keep research alive

When Jean-Godefroy Bidima boarded a plane in Paris on August 30, the words of a flight attendant turned his world upside down.After glancing at his travel itinerary, the flight attendant sympathetically told Bidima ? a professor in Tulane University's French department who had been attending a conference in Paris ? that he would not be able to reach his final destination, New Orleans, because that city's airport was closed.Astonished and confused, Bidima hurried off the plane and retrieved his luggage, then dashed outside the airport to find a newspaper kiosk.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Bartels attacks book on red states

Politics professor Larry Bartels recently argued that Tom Frank's New York Times bestseller "What's the Matter with Kansas" tells a misleading story about why the Republican Party is becoming more popular across the mid-western heartland.Bartels presented this argument in a paper ? titled "What's the Matter with 'What's the Matter with Kansas'" ? at an annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.Frank's book asserts that "conservatives won the heart of America" by swaying large numbers of working-class voters to vote against their economic interests on the basis of conservative cultural and social issues.Bartels tested this hypothesis by analyzing patterns of issue preferences, partisanship and voting in National Election Study (NES) survey data.According to Bartels' results, the white working class has not become more conservative.

NEWS | 10/18/2005

Tilghman nets at least $1.8m from Google

As the newest member of the Board of Directors at Google, Inc., President Tilghman has added not only another leadership post to her resume, but also a significant amount of stock to her investment portfolio.The compensation package given to Tilghman includes 6,000 shares of stock to be awarded over the next five years.

NEWS | 10/17/2005

Point: The evolution of a wall

The advent of personal blogs, online facebooks and other public forums has cultivated a fertile space for self expression on the web.

NEWS | 10/17/2005

Bassler explains microbe signals

Molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler kicked off the 2005-06 President's Lecture Series with a lecture yesterday on her groundbreaking research about the ways bacterial cells communicate with each other.Introduced by President Tilghman as the "quintessential scientist-educator," Bassler won the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius Grant' in 2002, and was named a Howard Hughes Investigator this year.The purpose of her lecture, Bassler said, was to convince the audience that "[b]acteria can talk to each other, that language is chemical and that they are multilingual."Speaking to a full audience in the Friend Center, Bassler explained how cells use molecules, called autoinducers, to communicate and participate in "collective gene regulation." Bassler discovered a chemical process, known as quorum sensing, which was the first indication that bacteria could act like a multicellular organism.

NEWS | 10/17/2005

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