Michael Fitts, president, Tulane University
Walter Isaacson, bestselling author, professor, Tulane University
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On Good Authority, a podcast featuring Tulane experts discussing news and topics of the day. I m Faith Dawson. Today we have a special episode. Our guest host is noted author and Tulane faculty member, Walter Isaacson. He recently sat down with Tulane President Mike Fitts to discuss his time at Tulane, this unprecedented academic year, and what the future holds for the university. But first, a little bit about our guest host. Walter Isaacson is the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson has written biographies on Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and most recently, Nobel Prize winner, Jennifer Doudna. He is also the host of “Amanpour and Company” on PBS and
A $1 million gift from Board of Tulane member Lisa Jackson, Apple Inc.’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, and her husband, Kenneth, will double participation in the Newcomb-Tulane College Summer Experience (NTCSE). The program helps newly admitted students from underserved backgrounds get a head start on succeeding at Tulane before fall orientation.
Jackson credits a similar program at Tulane with sparking her passion for engineering as a teenager. A top student at St. Mary’s Dominican High School in New Orleans, she attended summer STEM classes at Tulane on a scholarship from the National Consortium for Minorities in Engineering.
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The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Tulane physicists Dr. Denys Bondar (left) and Dr. Diyar Talbayev to complete an unsolved experiment involving superoscillations of light. (Photos courtesy of Tulane’s Department of Physics and Physics Engineering)
Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to do what no physicist has ever done before: see
through opaque matter using superoscillations of light in a time-domain spectroscopy lab.
That phrase might be difficult for the layperson to grasp, but its results could eventually transform a wide range of fields and technologies, from wireless communications and remote sensing to X-rays and security screenings.
Celebrating individuals who have made Tulane University a more inclusive and diverse academic community is at the heart of Tulane’s Trailblazers initiative, which was launched by President Michael Fitts in 2019.
For the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW), honoring such trailblazers took a unique collaboration that created a vibrant result. It all started when School of Social Work Dean Patrick Bordnick found an artist capable of telling its story.
As the first African-American graduate students to earn degrees from the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW) and among the first to graduate from