Eric Lander, Williams College Commencement Speaker
Williams CollegeOne of the driving forces behind today's revolution in genomics, Dr. Eric Lander will be the principal speaker at Williams College's 214th Commencement on Sunday, June 8, 2003.
One of the driving forces behind today's revolution in genomics, Dr. Eric Lander will be the principal speaker at Williams College's 214th Commencement on Sunday, June 8, 2003.
Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director Twyla Tharp, whose hit dance musical with Billy Joel, "Movin' Out," is currently playing on Broadway, will be the speaker for the North Carolina School of the Arts"š 38th commencement on May 31.
More than 5700 University of Maryland students are expected to receive bachelor and advanced degrees during the main commencement ceremony, Thursday, May 22, at the Comcast Center.
Mount Saint Mary College will confer 685 degrees at its 40th annual commencement ceremonies Saturday (May 17). Eli J. Segal, founder of AmeriCorps, will deliver the address at the 10 a.m. ceremony. Journalist Joseph L. Galloway will speak at the 2 p.m. ceremony.
More than 4800 degrees will be conferred at the University of Arizona on Saturday, May 17 at two separate commencement cermonies. Arizona Governor, Janet Napolitano and Senator Jon Kyl will address graduates.
U.S. Surgeon General, Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, is the keynote speaker at the convocation for the University of Arizona College of Medicine Class of 2003.
The University of Maryland holds its May commencement on Thursday evening, May 22 at the Comcast Center. Individual schools and departments will hold their own ceremonies Friday, May 23.
A Congressional Gold Medal recipient, the Director of Peace Corps and the Director of The Institute of Economic and Political Studies (INSTEP), Cambridge will speak at the University of Redlands commencement ceremonies on Thursday, May 29 and Saturday, May 31.
Teresa Heinz, chair of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies, will be the keynote speaker at Carnegie Mellon University's 106th commencement ceremony.
Commencement Speakers: 1) J. Fred Rentz, retired president of The News Co; 2) William E. Strickland, Jr., president and CEO of the Manchester Bidwell Corporation and the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild; 3) S. Donald Wiley, retired senior vice president and general counsel of H.J. Heinz Co.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to speak at Boston Architectural Center's 114th commencement.
Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will speak at the UCLA School of Public Health"šs annual commencement ceremony on Friday, June 13. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.
Franklin Raines has been called one of the most successful chief executives of any Fortune 500 company. On May 22, the Fannie Mae Chairman and CEO will head to the University of Maryland as the featured speaker during commencement ceremonies in the Comcast Center.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will give the commencement address at Mills College's 115th graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 17, 2003.
Sanjay Kumar, chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Associates International, Inc. will deliver the keynote address for the 42nd annual commencement ceremonies at New York Institute of Technology.
The Vocational Independence Program at New York Institute of Technology's Central Islip, N.Y., campus, is graduating its largest class ever on Thursday, May 15th at 10:00 a.m. in the Campus Auditorium. This year's distinguished guest speaker is Neil L. Amdur, veteran sports editor for The New York Times.
MICA's commencement ceremony is May 12 at 2 p.m. at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Dr. Richard Kalter, Philosopher-in-Residence, is commencement speaker. Honorary degrees and awards presented to Beatrice Levi, Deborah Willis, John Maeda, David Jacobs.
RI School of Design Announces Art Critic and Curator Dave Hickey as Commencement Speaker - RISD Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees will be confered on Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, behavioral scientist; Dave Hickey; Jenny Holzer, fine artist/RISD alumna; Jens Risom, one of the most influential furniture designers of the 20th century
Bruce Gebhardt, deputy director the FBI; C. Robert Leininger, former Illinois superintendent of education; John Blackburn, CEO of COUNTRY Insurance and Financial Services; and Dot Richardson, Olympic gold medalist and orthopedic surgeon, will be honored and will speak at Western Illinois University's Commencement.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree when the University of Michigan holds its spring commencement exercises on Saturday, April 26 in Michigan Stadium.
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City and founder of the financial services and news media company Bloomberg L.P., will deliver Wake Forest University's commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree May 19.
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, will deliver the University of Maryland, Baltimore commencement address on Friday, May 23, at 3 p.m. at the First Mariner Arena.
Eminent educational leader Frank Rhodes will give the keynote address at UNC Asheville's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17. Rhodes is one of four accomplished individuals who will receive honorary degrees.
Jim Lehrer, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) news anchor, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m. Hamilton's commencement ceremony will take place on the Main Quadrangle, or in the event of inclement weather, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
Michael S. Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Computer, the computer company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and built into a multi-billion-dollar global corporation, will give the commencement address for the 120th spring commencement.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will receive an honorary degree and deliver commencement speech at Loyola University New Orleans on May 16 at 9 a.m.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will award doctor of medicine degrees to 118 women and men from 29 states and six foreign countries who will be awarded doctor of medicine degrees at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"šs commencement exercises May 22, 2003.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will be the commencement speaker at the College of William and Mary on Sunday, May 11, 2003. She and civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (D), GA will be awarded honorary doctorates.
Two internationally respected artists, James Rosenquist and Janine Antoni, whose work is included in the collections of major museums and private collections here and abroad, will receive Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees; Antoni will be the Commencement Speaker.
Mildred Hughes-Fulford, NASA astronaut and cancer researcher, named commencement speaker at Dominican University of California.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will be the commencement speaker at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine's DO commencement June 1, 2003.
West Virginia First District Congressman Alan B. Mollohan will address West Virginia University graduates and receive an honorary degree during 2003 commencement ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at the Coliseum.
The School of Visual Arts has selected noted playwright Edward Albee as its keynote speaker for this year's graduation ceremony. The commencement will take place on May 12, in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, West 65th Street and Broadway, Noon - 3pm.
Andrew Shue - actor, activist, athlete, and entrepreneur - will speak during Colorado College's 2003 commencement ceremony on Monday, May 19, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on campus.
Sally Roesch Wagner, the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, is a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of women's rights history. She will speak on women's rights at Wells College's commencement ceremony.
United States Senator Arlen Specter will serve as Commencement speaker for Muhlenberg College's Class of 2003, Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m. on the College Green. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980, Specter authored the Armed Career Criminal Act, hailed by the law enforcement community as a major tool in fighting violent street crime in America.
Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State and the highest ranking woman in the history of the United States government, will be the speaker at Smith College's 125th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 18.
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge and PA First Lady Marjorie Rendell will speak at Gettysburg College's commencement. Rendell and husband Gov. Edward G. Rendell will receive honorary degrees, as will jazz legend Dave Brubeck, philanthropist Akiko Bowers, and University of Cincinnati president and Gettysburg alumnus Joseph Steger.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan will be the commencement speaker at Ursinus College Saturday May 17. She will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and plans to meet with Jordanian students at Ursinus.
World-renowned neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 197th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Harkness Field on campus followed by a festive celebration picnic held on the '86 Field.
John Lewis, a giant of the U.S. civil rights movement and an eight-term U.S. congressman from Georgia, will address Lesley University graduates at the 2003 commencement on May 19 at the Bayside Expo Center in Boston.
New England Conservatory (NEC) celebrates its 132nd Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 3:00 p.m., in NEC's Jordan Hall (290 Huntington Avenue, Boston).
U.S. Representative Scott McInnis (R-CO) will address the University of Southern Colorado Class of 2003 on May 3 as part of spring graduation ceremonies. McInnis recently secured more than $900,000 to improve the computer and technology infrastructure at USC as part of a federal omnibus appropriation package.
Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, will accept an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design at its 155th Commencement on Monday, May 19, 10:00am -12:00pm in Philadelphia.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen will deliver the address at Colgate University's 182nd commencement on Sunday, May 18.
Long-time civil rights leader and humanitarian Dorothy Height will be the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland on Sunday, Dec. 22. The graduation ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. in the new Comcast Center.
Christie Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 a.m.
Two World War II-era alumni who were unable to cross the commencement stage due to very different circumstances will participate in this weekend's graduation at the University of Redlands.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will award doctor of medicine degrees to 114 women and men from 25 states and six foreign countries at the commencement exercises May 23, 2002. The class is the 107th to graduate since the school opened in 1893. Johns Hopkins is among the most selective medical schools in the nation, with 4,654 applicants for 120 places for the freshman class this fall.
In a rare event that will bear witness to the nation's long struggle for racial equality in society and in the classroom, Teachers College, Columbia University will honor several important leaders who played crucial roles in the American civil rights movement at its 2002 Master's Convocation. Coretta Scott King, the Brown family, Congressman John Lewis, and David Levering Lewis will all speak at the ceremony and will each receive the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service to Education.