Rush University will recognize 596 graduating students at its 39th commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 11, at 2 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion, 525 South Racine in Chicago.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Stony Brook will celebrate the 51st Commencement Ceremony.
Public encouraged to attend Conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin, Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough, and Retired Rensselaer Board Chairman and Member Samuel F. Heffner.
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is pleased to announce its Spring Commencement schedule for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Scott to give keynote address to graduating health professionals.
On Saturday, May 14 at Moravian College (Bethlehem, Pa.) commencement, M. Blair Gericke will graduate from the institution that her 6X great grandmother Benigna von Zinzendorf founded 269 years earlier. An article on USA Today’s College Website Channel recently named Moravian as one of 10 groundbreaking American women’s colleges. As a non-traditional student, Gericke’s story is a compelling one, not what you’d expect for a direct descendant of the Zinzendorf family and the College’s matriarch and founder Benigna.
New York University School of Medicine will hold its 169th annual graduation on Thursday, May 19, 2011, at 10 a.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Ada Yonath, PhD, ScD, NYU Hon. ’11, the Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology and director, The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry will deliver the keynote address.
Joe Millsaps will be honored posthumously for his service to the University.
Delivering the commencement address is Lisa P. Jackson, the first African-American to serve as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, who will receive City Tech’s President’s Award.
An accomplished student, gifted athlete and tireless humanitarian, Darius Law is the 2011 recipient of The Nish Jamgotch Jr. Humanitarian Student Award at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Law, a senior in the Belk College of Business and an All-American track and field star, will receive a $10,000 cash prize.
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey, Ph.D., the first female Fellow and Polynesian Explorer in the history of the National Geographic Society, will be the 2011 commencement speaker at Nova Southeastern University's Undergraduate Commencement Exercises.
The George Washington University will celebrate the first anniversary of its School of Nursing by hosting a panel on the future of nursing, followed by a reception with remarks from Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Dr. William A. Hazel, Jr. and Executive Director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Dr. Karen Drenkard. The May 10th event will also feature tours of the School of Nursing and its state-of-the-art simulation and skills lab, housed at the GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
A team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students has created a system that pairs an EEG headset with a 3-D theatrical flying harness, allowing users to “fly” by controlling their thoughts.
Philippine Consul General to present University of Chicago Library with two works in honor of the 150th anniversary of Jose Rizal's birth.
Student-designed Games at May 6-7 Event Explore Augmented Reality, Kinect Platform, Mobile Apps, and Serious Games
Nine HBCUs convene for the first time at Spelman College on Friday, April 29 to present research findings and dialogue about LGBT issues on Black college campuses.
More than 1,100 students, faculty, staff and community members are participating in Salisbury University's 2011 Relay For Life.
Philosopher and author Martha Nussbaum will give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at the 174th Mount Holyoke College commencement on May 22.
U.S. Surgeon General and Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin – one of the world’s leading experts on public health and a key player in the national debate on health care reform – will deliver the main address at the 205th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Commencement on May 28.
Honorees to include Gene Sperling, Richard Lugar, Bob Schieffer, Aaron Williams, Vera Rubin, Stephen Zack.
As UC San Diego marks its 50th Anniversary, the university will host an open house to celebrate its history of pioneering global climate research and its transformation into a living laboratory of sustainable solutions.
This conference brings together experts in various fields of engineering to discuss the state of the art and find solutions and trends for the future development of this exciting and cutting edge research and technology domain.
Lowery Stokes Sims, Ph.D., and Leslie King-Hammond, Ph.D., participate in "Exploring Global Africa" on Wednesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
University of the Sciences will showcase the diversity and growth of research pursuits on campus during its 9th Annual Research Day on Thursday, April 14, 2011. Research Day recognizes and highlights the research efforts of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students to encourage and promote communication and collaboration among researchers.
In honor of the U.S. House of Representatives declaring the week of April 11 “Undergraduate Research Week,” Rockhurst University will be joining higher education institutions nationwide to celebrate the achievements of undergraduate students in research, scholarship and creative activities.
Journalist Tom Brokaw will be the speaker for St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremony May 22, 2011.
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will have a grand opening ceremony on Wednesday, April 27 to launch the university’s first physical therapy program in the Tampa Bay area.
The Spring Hill College Undergraduate Research Symposium (SHCURS) will provide students with the opportunity to present their research, internship and classroom projects to a larger audience. The symposium also provides a space for students, faculty, and the community to examine the connection between research and education. Student researchers from several academic disciplines will be present research posters, reports on internships or class projects, art installations, and hands on models. Those not yet involved in research will discover that attending the symposium is a great way to learn about the broad range of opportunities available at the Spring Hill College. Attendees are welcome to drop in any time between the hours of 3:45-4:45pm.
Loyola University Chicago is pleased to hold their annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the culmination of Undergraduate Research Week.
The annual spring conference showcases the research of students representing UC, University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville.
The 7th annual film showcase on April 12 and April 14 features student film screenings and a social media panel discussion comprised of five African-American digital innovators.
Noted AIDS researcher and immunologist Anthony S. Fauci will deliver the keynote address at the 2011 commencement ceremony for Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will speak at Einstein’s graduation, which takes place Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
The Newton Marasco Foundation partners annually with Salisbury University’s Literature Festival to present the Green Earth Book Awards-the nation's first prize to honor environmental stewardship in children's books.
Stony Brook University will host the 2011 Sigma Xi Northeastern Research Symposium to showcase the work of top undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from across the country in various fields of science.
Students from the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and community members discuss the elements of an American Indian Pow Wow and its importance. The 21st annual Pow Wow at Washington University will be held Saturday, April 9, in the Field House.
Georgia Tech Savannah was the site of the December and January Engineering Explorer Post meetings, with 11th and 12th graders from both the Thomas & Hutton Explorer Post and the Hussey Gay Bell and DeYoung Explorer Post participating in these workshops.
In order to support professional development of women surgeons and raise gender awareness, the UC San Diego Department of Surgery is offering a free educational series for surgeons, medical students, and the general public.
Just as human babies learn to speak by listening to adults and then hearing their own attempts at speech, so young songbirds learn their distinctive melodies by hearing and then vocalizing the songs of adult birds.
The 2011 Global Business Forum will take place at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business March 21-30. The focus of the forum, "Global Energy: Sufficiency and Sustainability," hopes to inform and inspire discussion about the future of the energy industry among students, industry professionals and executives.
Leading experts on what has been called "the new antisemitism" will meet at Indiana University next month for a scholarly examination of anti-Jewish bias and hatred that has arisen across much of the world in the past decade.
Women's Research and Resource Center symposium explores dimensions of Black/African women’s lives, scholarship and social change activism.
The Center for Social Development (CSD) and the Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis and DukeEngage of Duke University will host a symposium on international service and higher education from March 30-April 1 at the Knight Center at Washington University. “International service is not new to higher education, but it is at the threshold of a new era,” says Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, director of the Gephardt Institute and research director for the CSD at Washington University.
More than 3,000 of the brightest and most talented undergraduate college students from across the country will spend three days on the Ithaca College campus presenting and discussing their original research, scholarship and creative activity.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen will address the Grinnell College Class of 2011 at the college’s 165th Exercises of Commencement, on Mon., May 23, at 10 a.m. on Central Campus.
Virtual career fair for students at U.Va.'s Darden School of Business.
World-renowned soloists, Cleveland Orchestra musicians and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory faculty/students will gather to perform some of the world’s greatest music at the 79th Annual Bach Festival on April 15-17. This landmark event features the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries.
The University of Maryland will welcome DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), as the 2011 Spring Commencement speaker. The fourth leader in the union's 41-year history, Smith represents approximately 1,700 NFL players in the collective bargaining union, which is currently negotiating a billion-dollar collective bargaining agreement with league owners.
"Inventing the Future of Games," a day-long symposium in Silicon Valley sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Games and Playable Media, will gather some of the brightest minds of academia and industry to explore the possibilities of the next decade of gaming innovation and technology.
Misericordia University is hosting a two-day conference on innovative assessment practices to help collegiate faculty and staff understand the goals of assessment, the myriad of ways of engaging assessment and how assessment can inform the science and daily practice of teaching.
Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship will induct three business leaders into its Entrepreneur Hall of Fame on April 13, 2011. This list includes “Papa John,” the Hall of Fame’s second woman to be inducted, and a U.S. Air Force veteran.
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