Key Project Personel

• Dr. Henry Bart - Project Director, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Tulane University
  
  
• Dr. Isiah Warner - Project Co-Director, Professor and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University
  
  
• Dr. Su-Sang Pang - Project Co- Director, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, Mechanical Engineering Department, Louisiana State University
   
• Eric Roque - Senior Program Coordinator, Tulane University
   

Remembering Jannie Price
 

Campus Coordinators

• Dr. Abdalla Darwish - Campus Coordinator, Associate Professor and Chair, Physics Department, Dillard University
  
  
• Dr. Joe Omojola - Campus Coordinator, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Physics Department, Southern University at New Orleans
  
  
• Dr. Murty Akundi - Campus Coordinator, Professor, Physics and Engineering Department, Xavier University of Louisiana
  
  
• Dr. James Llorens - Campus Coordinator, Interim Dean, Graduate School, Southern University at Baton Rouge
  

Tulane STEM Department Contacts


ENGINEERING

Biomedical Engineering:
          Chair: Donald P. Gaver, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.bmen.tulane.edu 

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
          Chair: Vijay T. John, Ph.D.
          Website: http://cbe.tulane.edu

SCIENCES

Biochemistry
          Chair: Jim Karam, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Samuel Landry, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.biochemistry.tulane.edu

Biostatistics
          Chair: Janet Hughes, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.sph.tulane.edu/biostatistics
         
Cell and Molecular Biology
          Chair: YiPing Chen, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Jeffrey Tasker, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~cellmol

Chemistry
          Chair: Brent Koplitz, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Russell Schmehl, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~chemstry

Earth and Environmental Sciences
          Chair: Stephen Nelson, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Thomas Bianchi, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~eens/

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
          Chair: David Heins, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~ebio/

Environmental Health Sciences
          Chair: Maureen Lickhtveld, MPH, MD
          Website: http://www.ehs.tulane.edu/

Epidemiology
          Chair: Jiang He, M.D.
          Advisor: Therese Carter
          Website: http://www.epidemiology.tulane.edu

Human Genetics
          Director: Jess Thoene, M.D.
          Advisor: Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.som.tulane.edu/human_genetics

Mathematics
          Chair: Morris Kalka, Ph.D.
          Advisor: James T. Rogers, Jr., Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.math.tulane.edu/

Microbiology and Immunology
          Chair: John D. Clements, Ph. D.
          Advisor: Laura S. Levy, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.microbiology.tulane.edu

Molecular and Cellular Biology (Interdisciplinary)
          Director: Robert Garry, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.som.tulane.edu/departments/mcb_grad_prog

Neuroscience
          Director:  Jeffrey Tasker, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.neuro.tulane.edu

Parasitology
          Chair: Donald J. Krogstad, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.sph.tulane.edu/tropmed

Pharmacology
          Chair: Krishna Agrawal, Ph.D.
          Website: http://tulane.edu/som/departments/pharmacology

Physics
          Chair James McGuire, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Arthur Hancock, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.physics.tulane.edu/

Physiology
          Chair: Luis G. Navar, Ph.D.
          Advisor: Geoffrey Schofield, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.som.tulane.edu/departments/physiology

Tropical Medicine
          Chair: Donald J. Krogstad, Ph.D.
          Website: http://www.sph.tulane.edu/tropmed

For more information on GAELA click the links below:

• General Information
  
  
• Objectives
  
  
• Activities
   
• National Conferences and Recruitment Opportunities