Welcome to the UFM Lou Douglas Lecture Series

About David Eisenhower

· Public Policy Fellow at the Annenberg School  for Communication

· Fellow of the American Society of Historians, New York City

· Editor of ORBIS magazine, published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, 2001-2003

· As Director of  the Institute for Public Service, coordinates the Annenberg Fellowship program

· As IPS Director, chairman of a new academic concentration offered to Communications majors at  the Annenberg School

· Author of  numerous articles and reviews including his regular editor’s column for ORBIS and a two-volume work on the Allied leadership in the pursuit phase of WW II entitled Eisenhower at War: 1943-1945 (Random House, New York)

· Eisenhower at War was a New York Times best seller and was one of three history jury nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in History and was named by Time magazine as one of the five best nonfiction works published  in 1986

· Sits on numerous non-profit boards and advisory commissions. Recipient of seven honorary degrees, the Golden Slipper Award for community service in Philadelphia, admitted to Golden Key Society membership and given the Panitt Award for Citizenship by  the ASC, University of  Pennsylvania,  2002 

· In May 2003, named the winner of UPenn’s  university-wide annual Provost’s Award for   Excellence in University teaching

· Former Naval Officer. Former syndicated sports columnist and front office employee of the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies