Bob Woodward at Tufts April 25

Ground-breaking Journalist Latest Prominent Speaker to Visit Campus in April

After hearing from Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric, Tufts University community members will have another opportunity to learn from a renowned speaker in April.

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Bob Woodward will be coming to Tufts next Monday as the 14th speaker in the Richard E. Snyder President’s Lecture Series. The lecture is set to take place April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center on Tufts University’s and is a ticketed event.

Woodard has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” Winner with Carl Bernstein of a 1973 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Watergate scandal, Woodward has received almost every prestigious award in journalism. His role as the main reporter for the Post’s coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks helped the newspaper win the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

One year later, Woodward received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. At Tufts, Woodward’s unique perspective on the American presidency will be the basis of his lecture “From Nixon to Obama.”

Endowed by Richard E. Snyder, who graduated from Tufts in 1955 and is the former chairman and CEO of Simon and Schuster, this lecture series was established in 2004 to bring to Tufts speakers who have challenged conventional wisdom in their professional work.

Woodward has authored or co-authored 12 best selling non-fiction books including All the President’s Men (1974), The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court” (1979) and Bush at War (2002).

– InsideMedford.com