The John Lewis Public Administration Program at Tulane SoPA was introduced publicly during a dedication ceremony held Tuesday, Oct. 4, on the uptown campus. Members of the Tulane and New Orleans community celebrated the announcement with representatives of the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation.
Dr. Mary L. Brandt, professor of surgery and professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at the School of Medicine, will give this year’s John J. Conley Ethics and Philosophy lecture at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, which is the largest annual meeting of surgeons in the United States. Read more on the School of Medicine website.
Zach Foster, A. B. Freeman School of Business alumnus, is CFO of Louisiana Pepper Exchange, whose products are sold in 2,000 stores across the United States. Foster was an aviation officer in the U.S. Army before coming to Freeman and credits the school with laying the groundwork for his role as CFO. Read more on the Freeman website.
Tulane architecture professor Javier Marcano lights candles on an altar dedicated to Latin American resistance fighters during the Latine Arts Fest on Saturday, Oct. 1. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the free event coincided with National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through Oct. 15. Check out the photos on the Tulane news website.
The Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience will host a film screening of Children of the Inquisition: Their Story Can Now Be Told on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Freeman Auditorium of the Woldenberg Art Center. The documentary unearths 500 years of hidden history, seen through the eyes of the contemporary descendants of the families forced to convert to Catholicism or flee during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions. For more information about the documentary, visit the event page on Wavesync.
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