Author Archives: Emily Martin

As part of his agenda for the 2007 budget, President Bush plans to bring an influx of math and science professionals into elementary school classrooms across the country. Bush proposed two programs as part of his Academic Competitiveness Initiative: the Adjunct Teachers Corps and the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which would train a total of […]

Congress passed a sweeping budget bill Wednesday that reduces federal spending by $39 billion and includes a $11.9 billion cut to the federal student loan program, the largest cut in the history of federal financial aid programs. The bill, titled the Deficit Reduction Act, passed narrowly by a vote of 216-214, mostly along partly lines, […]

Racing against the storm to save his research, Tyler Curiel stayed in his lab at Tulane University in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He hoped to protect rare cancer cells vital to his research, which examines immune cells and their response to cancer and infections. When the building began to flood, Curiel, the chief of […]

After spending spring semester rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, universities in New Orleans are now opening their doors again, but some faculty will not return and some degree programs will not continue. For example, when Tulane University reopened on Jan. 17, 86 percent of the student body returned, though the positions of 168 […]

When second-year pre-medical student Kristen Okpara returned to Xavier University at New Orleans for spring semester, she found it a campus quite changed from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The green lawns have all turned to mud. The shopping centers near campus are all closed down, and the nearest stores are only within driving distance. […]

After spending fall quarter at UCLA, University of New Orleans graduate student Wes Harris, studying film and television, decided to stay at UCLA for the remainder of the year because his New Orleans apartment is currently occupied by a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Bryan Segil, a graduate student at Tulane University studying ecology and […]

In one of the last votes of 2005, Congress showed approval for a bill which would cut funding for government-sponsored student loan programs by $12.7 billion. Dubbed the “reconciliation bill,” the measure would include a $12.7 billion cut from student loans to combat the federal deficit and fund tax cuts. The House approved the bill […]