Clifton R. Wharton Jr. will deliver the commencement address Saturday, May 8. Chancellor James H. Mullen Jr. will confer honorary degrees on Wharton as well as Wall Street Journal columnist Sharon Begley, University of Hawaii President Evan Dobelle, and Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge will address graduates at commencement services on May 20.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will be the keynote speaker at the 200th Commencement Sunday, May 23, at 9 a.m. Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, and has lived part-time in Vermont for 40 years.
Newsman Pierre Thomas will be the keynote speaker at the university commencement event. Howard University's Graduate School Dean Orlando L. Taylor will speak at Graduate School commencement. Harold G. Koenig will be the keynote speaker at Virginia Tech's Center for Gerontology's ceremony.
Former president Bill Clinton will give the Senior Convocation address May 29, 2004. By tradition, the commencement address will be given by the president of the university, Jeffrey S. Lehman.
Krista Tippett, Minnesota Public Radio host, will speak at Commencement Activities.
Playwright August Wilson, who has received two Pulitzer prizes and numerous other awards for his plays, will be the featured speaker at the 129th annual Commencement ceremonies June 12 at Husky Stadium.
Three distinguished graduates will be awarded honorary degrees by their alma mater at Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 16.
Colin L. Powell is scheduled to address approximately 1,500 graduates and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree during a 9 a.m. outdoor ceremony May 17.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will be the guest speaker at the university's inaugural Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 13, at 10 a.m.
President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton have announced the names of those to be honored at the 172nd Commencement Exercises, Thursday, May 13th. Time-Warner CEO Richard Parsons will offer "A Response on Behalf of the Honorary Degree Recipients," an university tradition.
UAB will conduct graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 8. Ceremonies will be held at Bartow Arena, 617 S. 13th St. About half of the nearly 2,000 May graduates will take part in the ceremonies.
Steve Burke, president of Comcast Cable, has been chosen to deliver the keynote address at Colgate's 183rd commencement exercises on Sunday, May 16, 2004.
Senator Barbara Boxer to address 2004 graduates at Dominican University of California.
Tom Beaudoin, author and visiting assistant professor of theology at Boston College, will deliver the commencement address.
Continuing the tradition of outdoor spring ceremonies on campus that began in 2000, the commencements for 2004 graduates will begin with the university-wide Baccalaureate Mass, on Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. Approximately 1,300 students will graduate.
U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., a 1965 University of Delaware graduate, will speak at the 155th Commencement exercises at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 29, in Delaware Stadium on the Newark campus. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
Donald L. Evans, the 34th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, will be the speaker for spring commencement at 8 p.m. on May 22. Evans is a recipient of university's Distinguished Alumnus Award and is a former chairman of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.
U.S. Surgeon General and Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona will address more than 1,800 undergraduate students at commencement exercises on May 1, 2004, at 10 a.m. at the FleetCenter in Boston.
Fireworks, music, and keynote address by U.S. Sen. John McCain will be among the highlights April 30 as the university honors the spring class of 2004 with a special convocation celebration.
Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Member of the Faculty of Divinity School at Harvard University, will be the commencement speaker on May 15, 2004.
"Richard Channing" from the '80s TV hit drama "Falcon Crest" will be delivering WVU's 135th Commencement address at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 16.
Newly appointed Cabinet Secretary Alphonso Jackson will deliver the Commencement Address.
Senator John Breaux, a leader in national politics who has served Louisiana in Congress for 32 years, will deliver the commencement address to approximately 2000 graduates on May 22 at 9:30 a.m. in the Louisiana Superdome.
Delaware Congressman Mike Castle, a 1961 graduate, will deliver the college's commencement address on Sunday, May 23, at 10:30 a.m. The commencement ceremony will take place on the Main Quadrangle, or in the event of inclement weather, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
Actress Celia Weston will speak to Salem College's graduates at the 2004 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. in the May Dell, an outdoor amphitheater on Salem's campus.
Music industry sound equipment pioneer Hartley Peavey will deliver the May 8 commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will address Michigan State University undergraduates at spring commencement convocation ceremonies Friday, May 7.
In keeping with tradition at Davidson College, Commencement weekend activities will focus on members of the Class of 2004 rather than a prominent speaker. President Robert Vagt will offer brief remarks to the 400 or so graduating seniors during Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 16.
The nation's top education official, US Secretary of Education Rod Paige, will deliver a special address to graduates at Commencement Ceremonies, held April 24 in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Why are worrisome new epidemics, from AIDS to SARS, emerging in the 21st century? Why, at the same time, are the old killers, supposedly about to go away -- cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, and dengue fever -- now killing people all over the world?
Tim Russert, JD, moderator of "Meet the Press" and Washington bureau chief of NBC News, will deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Commencement. Russert will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree at the ceremony, set for Friday, May 21, at 3 p.m.
The man tailgating you and gesturing wildly with a single finger "” is he angry or just acting aggressively, and does that make a difference in how you should respond?
In 2001 the then president of the University of California, Dr. Richard C. Atkinson, gave a Washington address to the American Council of Education proposing that colleges and universities radically change the way they evaluate students applying for admission.
Lori Belilove & Company, resident performing company of the Isadora Duncan Foundation, will perform the West Coast premiere of "Isadora...no apologies" on Friday, April 16, 2004 at Mills College.
Students from universities around the globe will converge in Seattle April 12-17 to compete in the UW Business School's sixth annual Global Business Challenge.
The symposium brings scholars who will address globalization and cultural capital. What can the "˜cultural' work in the humanities and social sciences offer to analyzing the globalized flows of money, media, people, goods, and services?
Marriage and family researcher John Van Epp will speak on "How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk," and new correlations between marriage and health, education, crime, and well being will be reported at the Family Wellness Conference April 12.
A group of School of Technology students will try to earn the university's second consecutive national title during the 17th annual national Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, which pays homage to the late cartoonist, who drew whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks.
Judy Woodruff, CNN anchor and senior correspondent, will be the speaker at the 126th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 16.
Leaders of the world's reigning hotels and restaurants will be guests April 1-4 at the student-run extravaganza "Hotel Ezra Cornell 2004," a conference held at the world's largest teaching hotel, the Statler, where many of the attendees got their training.
Allen B. Morgan Jr., chairman of Morgan Keegan & Company, and The Honorable Donald E. Powell, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., headline the March 19 Banking and Finance Symposium. The meeting offers insights for business and sports reporters.
Woodrow Wilson Fellow Bryan M. Cassidy will lecture on "The U.S. & the European Union: Partners or Rivals?" at 7 p.m. Thursday (March 25) in Hudson Hall Auditorium at Mount Saint Mary College. The public is welcome to this free lecture.
Brain perceptions, often non-linear, holistic images, subtly influence the way humans deal with space and design in art and architecture. A March 20 symposium will explore the role of conscious, and unconscious, brain-mind activity in the process of creating art and designing homes and buildings.
Former senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun will address the graduating class of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at her alma mater.
National civil rights leaders, educators, lawyers, and journalists, along with descendants of the 1954 Brown v Topeka Board of case, will gather this month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the decision that declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
A daylong symposium on the state of Africana studies will bring leaders in the field to The Johns Hopkins University on Friday, March 5.
An innovative new class is tapping the University's pipeline to the entertainment industry, bringing back alumni who have made a splash in Hollywood and on Broadway to share their experiences with students and the public.
Education reporters are welcome to meet new sources and find story ideas at the "Leadership Development Conference on School, Family and Community Partnerships," led by researchers from The Johns Hopkins University.
The University of Delaware will host the first scholarsly symposium devoted to the lives and work of late-Victorian poets, playwrights, and lovers Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote under the pen name Michael Field.
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