Congratulations to all of this year’s graduates! Extending a special shout out to all of the faculty and staff who’ve achieved this milestone!

As we close out another academic year, I want to take a moment to celebrate the inspiring work happening across our campus and the exciting ways we continue to explore the intersections of teaching, research and technology.

This issue highlights innovative faculty projects, upcoming learning opportunities, and the growing impact of  GenAI in our classrooms. Whether you're wrapping up spring courses or preparing for summer programs, I hope you find something here that sparks your curiosity and supports your work.

Thank you for being part of our learning community.

Mike Griffith, PhD 

Executive Director -  Strategic Digital Innovation  | Information Technology 

Director - Innovative Learning Center 

Join us for targeted sessions to help you enhance your courses and engage your students. Explore collaborative annotation with Hypothesis, design more inclusive learning experiences in our UDL Academy, and learn how to boost interaction using Top Hat. Whether you're teaching online, hybrid, or in-person, these tools can support a more dynamic, accessible classroom. Join us and get a head start on fall planning!

Join HR’s Talent Development Team and the Innovative Learning Center for the newly established Summer Tech Learning Series for Tulane Employees and Managers.

Hybrid and Online sessions.

Registration Coming Soon!

What to Expect

• June – July 2025
• 45-minute virtual and hybrid sessions
• Practical, hands-on learning led by Tulane experts
• Open to all staff and faculty.

Sign up will open in early June. Stay tuned for session dates, topics, and featured facilitators!

This summer, we are bringing you a fresh lineup of bite-sized, high-impact learning sessions designed to boost your digital skills and confidence with everyday tools. This series was inspired by your feedback from Professional Development Week—where tech-focused sessions were among the most requested!

Whether you're managing projects, analyzing data, collaborating remotely, or exploring AI, there’s something here for everyone.

This 3.5-hour comprehensive session includes everything you need: Activating Annotation, Annotating Your Syllabus, Modeling Annotations—plus workshop time to apply what you’ve learned.

Join the Summer UDL Academy, a 3-half day program focused on practical strategies to support all learners.

Workshop collaboration with CELT, ILC, and Goldman Center for Student Accessibility.

Copying a Canvas Course Using the Course Import Tool

Preflight to Canvas: Master Canvas LMS!

August 4 & 5

 9am - 1pm

A comprehensive 2-day workshop designed to equip incoming Tulane faculty with everything they need to know about building and managing courses in the Canvas learning management system (LMS).

Summer TAOH

Mondays | 12pm to 1pm

No appointments necessary, both online via zoom and in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Suite 300 for all pedagogy and academic technology needs.

By Blaine Fisher, Ph.D., MS, MA, NRP, PG-Cert

The Titanic's dead spoke in ribbons of light. Standing in the hushed gallery of New Orleans' traveling exhibit, I found myself transfixed not by the expected rusty pocket watches or waterlogged leather shoes, but by two floor-to-ceiling Sankey diagrams pulsing with electric blue and fuchsia pathways. Each glowing band represented human lives—hopes and heartbeats from 1912, transformed into streams of data flowing across black space.

Two floor-to-ceiling Sankey diagrams pulsed with ultraviolet blues and candy-store pinks, transforming dry passenger statistics into rivers of light. If you've never encountered a Sankey diagram, picture luminous ribbons of varying thickness flowing across black space, each stream's width encoding a precise quantity, each intersection a storytelling node. At their best, these visuals dance in the liminal space between art and analytics; at their worst, they overload the retina until meaning dissolves into kaleidoscopic noise.

The exhibition designers had created something magnificent. Standing before the wall-sized graphic labeled "City of Origin, Country of Origin, and Class on Board of the Titanic," I felt the hair rise on my forearms. Each glowing band wasn't just data—it was a current of flesh-and-blood hopes, fears that once breathed and dreamed in 1912. The thickest band, a royal blue torrent streaming from Southampton to the "Crew" category, represented hundreds of stokers, stewards, and mechanics who had signed on for steady work. A whisper-thin green filament traced Belgians in third class, while a stout magenta channel carried wealthy Americans to first-class cabins.

Yet the longer I stood there, mesmerized by color and contour, the more those variegated bands fused into a single word in my mind: noise. Beautiful noise, yes—but to a data scientist, noise is never merely chaos. It's fertile soil. To researchers like me, noise signals the presence of undiscovered patterns waiting just beneath the surface.

I raised my phone and captured a dozen photographs of the displays, knowing full well the images would be flawed—uneven lighting, tourists bobbing in and out of frame, reflections on the protective glass. Still, a question nagged at me: what could modern artificial intelligence make of this visual feast? Could a multimodal model cut through the noise and extract a coherent narrative? Perhaps even stories that human researchers had overlooked?

My family scattered toward the gift shop. I settled onto a bench, opened ChatGPT's o3 model on my phone, and typed five simple words: "Interpret this infographic." I dropped the first image into the chat and pressed send.

Unsure about AI? Acclaimed educator, Flower Darby shares strategies to navigate ethical AI use, increase student engagement and maintain academic integrity in your course.

Beginning on May 28 at 8 a.m. CST, we are implementing Duo multi-factor authentication (Duo MFA) as a security requirement to access Tulane’s Box and Power BI cloud solutions.

This extra layer of security will increase the identity validation of those accessing Tulane data.

What does this mean?

When you log in to Tulane Box and Power BI after today, May 27, you will receive a Duo MFA prompt (identical to the email and employee self-service prompts).

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