<p>"Tulane University president elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences"</p>
<p>Tulane University President Scott Cowen Tulane University President Scott Cowen is one of 229 leaders in science, public affairs and the arts and humanities who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 230-year-old center for independent policy research.</p>
<p>The list, which was released today, includes the actors Denzel Washington and John Lithgow; the director Francis Ford Coppola; the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins; the dancer Suzanne Farrell; G. Wayne Clough, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Stephen Bosworth, the United States' special envoy to North Korea; David Ferriero, the archivist of the United States; and James Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.</p>
<p>The induction ceremony will be held Oct. 9 at the academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.</p>
<p>Cowen, 63, was traveling and unavailable for comment.</p>
<p>This is the latest in a series of honors for Cowen, who has been Tulane's president since July 1998. This year's recipient of The Times-Picayune Loving Cup, Cowen has received the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award and been named one of the nation's top 10 college presidents by Time Magazine.</p>
<p>He has been a leader in the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Mayor Ray Nagin appointed him to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission and the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, and he founded the Fleur de Lis Ambassadors to barnstorm the country to ensure that Americans remember and care about New Orleans.</p>
<p>As a result of his education-related work on the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, Cowen founded the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives.</p>