Eight alumni and two current students have received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct independent research in Morocco, Peru and Zambia, or work as English teaching assistants in Brazil, Colombia, Estonia, Jordan, Malaysia and Poland in 2018–19. “The Fulbright award is a natural extension of a Tulane education with its similar values of reciprocity, international engagement and promotion of mutual understanding among nations,” said Charlotte Maheu Vail, Tulane’s Fulbright Program adviser and director of the Honors Program.

Allison Emmerson, an assistant professor of classical studies in the School of Liberal Arts, won the Rome Prize offered by the American Academy in Rome and an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship. Emmerson plans to spend the academic year 2018–19 in Rome, finishing her upcoming book, which will analyze how tombs were a central feature of suburbs within the ancient Roman world.

An exhibit, curated by architecture professor Carol McMichael Reese, honors A. Hays Town (A ’26). “Town’s popular—and perhaps abiding—legacy is as a regionalist who sought to create an indelible image of home in Louisiana,” said Reese. The exhibit is at Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana.

University Professor Walter Isaacson has joined CNN’s late-night public affairs show “Amanpour & Company” as a contributor. Isaacson also published an essay, “Shaped by Water: The Mississippi Remains the South’s Most Vital Artery,” in the Aug. 6–13, 2018, issue of TIME magazine.

• Iñaki Alday is the new dean of the School of Architecture.
• Brian Edwards is the new dean of the School of Liberal Arts.
• Thomas LaVeist is the new dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.