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The MakerSpace at Tulane University, which offers students and professors access to digital fabrication tools like 3-D printers, laser cutters, milling machines and lathes as well as traditional hand and power tools, will be named the Scot Ackerman MakerSpace, thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Scot Ackerman.
Ackerman, who graduated from Tulane in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, is a board-certified radiation oncologist and medical director of the Ackerman Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida, which he originally founded in 1997 as First Coast Oncology. He has been a leader in his professional and civic life, holding memberships and serving on boards of numerous organizations.
“MakerSpace is an indispensable resource for Tulane scholars and researchers who teach…
