Alberto Bustani, president of the Monterrey Region of the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico, will deliver the keynote address at Virginia Tech's 2007 Graduate Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 11. Bustani is also a leading environmental researcher and advocate.
Journalist and tennis commentator Bud Collins returns to his alma mater, Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, to deliver the commencement address on May 6 at George Finnie Stadium.
Marissa Pei, international corporate consultant and best-selling author, will address graduates Sunday June 3rd in Los Angeles, California.
Rye Barcott, 27-year-old founder and president of Carolina for Kibera and captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, will speak at the commencement ceremony for the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 12, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
William P. Kupper Jr., president and chief executive officer of BusinessWeek group, a leading global business and media organization, will speak at the University of Delaware's 158th Commencement, scheduled at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 26, in Delaware Stadium on the Newark campus.
Thomas L. Friedman, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the 2007 Commencement address at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 19 at 9:30 a.m. on the Harkness Field. Friedman also will receive an honorary degree at the ceremony, along with pioneering producer Don Hewitt, best known as the creator of the weekly CBS-TV news program 60 Minutes.
General John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army (Ret.), former Commander of the U.S. Central Command that oversees American military operations in a 27-country region including the Middle East, and whose experience includes Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2007, will speak at Virginia Tech's Commencement May 11 at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field.
Angela Y. Davis, formerly associated with the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Communist Party of the United States of America, will Davis will address Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Commencement ceremony on May 21.
Colgate University graduates Bob Woodruff '83, former co-anchor of ABC News's World News Tonight program, and his wife, journalist Lee McConaughy Woodruff '82, will together deliver the keynote address at Colgate's 186th commencement exercises Sunday, May 20.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus to address graduates, parents and guests and receive an honorary doctor of arts degree.
Dr. David M. Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in the history category, will be the speaker at the 124th Spring Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, May 19 on the Main Mall.
Distinguished speakers will address faculty, staff, students and guests when the six professional schools of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston hold their 2007 graduation ceremonies.
The University of Virginia announced today that best-selling novelist John Grisham will be the commencement speaker at the University's 178th Final Exercises on May 20, 2007. Grisham will speak on the historic Lawn at 10 a.m., following the traditional academic procession.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, the nation's most-watched news anchor, will deliver the keynote address to graduates at Tulane University's 2007 commencement May 19 at 9 a.m. in the New Orleans Arena.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will deliver the commencement address at Tufts University on May 20 in his hometown of Medford, Mass. The entrepreneur and philanthropist will be joined by a composer, nanotechnology pioneer, astronaut, dancer and Nobel laureate in economics in receiving honorary degrees from Tufts.
United Way President and CEO Brian Gallagher will be the featured Commencement speaker at the University of Maryland this December 20.
Williams College President Morton Owen Schapiro will confer Bachelor of Arts degrees on 517 seniors at the college's 217th Commencement on Sunday, June 4. Fourteen students in the History of Art Program and 27 fellows from the Center for Development Economics will receive master's degrees.
Graduation announcement for Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine's Class of 2006, which is to be held Saturday, June 3, 2006, at 10 a.m.
Jordan J. Cohen, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will address University of Colorado School of Medicine graduates during the school's May 26 hooding and oath ceremony.
"Too many Americans have nightmares instead of dreams," NAACP President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Gordon told 594 graduates Sunday at his alma mater, Gettysburg College.
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