Five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar will meet to assess the nature and value of diversity on U.S. campuses at a July 30 symposium at Cornell University organized by the Future of Minority Studies Research Project.
Martha Grace, chief justice of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court, will be the 2005 Commencement speaker at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology on June 5, 2005.
Journalist Jerry Mitchell, whose work led to the murder indictment of a former Ku Klux Klansman in the "˜64 murders of three civil rights workers, will deliver the commencement address at Queens College on Thursday, June 2 at 9 am.
Legendary civil rights leader Julius Chambers to deliver keynote address at Northeastern University School of Law's 2005 commencement. Honorary Doctor of Laws presented to the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton, United States District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) encouraged the Class of 2005 to "always stand true to yourselves" and to "stand up for research and for open inquiry" in her address today to approximately 1,100 graduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 199th Commencement.
Social, economic and manmade environments appear to influence diet and physical activity throughout life. Research on the environment's impact on being overweight is the topic of a conference "Ecology of Obesity: Linking Science and Action" June 6-7 at Cornell University.
Mount Saint Mary College will confer 554 degrees during its 42nd annual commencement ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday (May 21). Dan Zevin, author, humorist and journalism professor, will deliver the address. The Mount will confer 423 bachelor's and 131 master's degrees.
Brian Billick, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Maryland, Baltimore's 2005 Commencement.
Joseph J. Grano, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Centurion Holdings, LLC and Chairman, Homeland Security Council, and Ellyn A. McColgan, President, Fidelity Brokerage Company, will speak at Babson College's 86th Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 21, 2005.
In recognition of the Cornell Theory Center's contributions to the global research community since 1985, the Center is sponsoring the "Symposium on High-Performance Computing: Predictions and Visions for the Future" on May 24, 2005. Admission is free and open to the public, however registration is requested.
Reena Deutsch, historian of the San Diego & Arizona Railroad, will present a slide show and lecture on the 100 years of the train through the desert May 17.
Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Chancellor Daniel Ferritor and philanthropist Pat Walker will be honored with honorary degrees at the 2005 All-University Commencement, which will be held at 8:45 a.m. May 14 in Bud Walton Arena. The schedule of commencement for the university's colleges and their speakers was also announced.
Kurt Schmoke, dean of the Howard University School of Law and former mayor of Baltimore, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m.
Leon E. Panetta, Chief of Staff for former U.S. President William J. Clinton and founder/director of the Panetta Institute, will address approximately 2,200 undergraduate students as the keynote speaker at Northeastern University's morning commencement exercises.
Seattle business attorney T. Dennis George will be the featured commencement speaker at his alma mater, Northern Michigan University. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 7.
More than 5,000 degrees will be conferred at May 14 University of Arizona two Commencement ceremonies. UA graduate and Phoenix Suns majority owner Robert G. Sarver will address the morning ceremony and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will be the afternoon speaker.
Kathryn S. Fuller, president and chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund will be a featured speaker at Clarkson's 112th Commencement on Sunday, May 8.
Award winning author Russel Banks will be a featured speaker at Clarkson University's 112th commencement in Potsdam, NY on May 8.
Dr. Andreas Acrivos, Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of he City University of New York will Address Clarkson University commencement May 8 and receive an honorary doctorate degree.
Shirin Ebadi, human rights activist from Iran who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak at Westfield State College on May 2.
United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) will speak at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 199th Commencement, on Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. at the Harkness Field.
Two commencement addresses will be given at SDSU April 30, one by former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle and one by graduating senior Laura Lynn Geraets.
Benoit Mandelbrot, who demonstrated the importance of fractals in both mathematics and nature, will speak at Teachers College, Columbia University, on how virtual manipulatives (which he also pioneered) can be used to incorporate fractal theory into the K-12 math curriculum.
This year's Convocation at Teachers College will include a line-up of honorees who together have made enormous contributions to closing the gap in opportunity and achievement between America's more privileged students and their poorer, chiefly non-white peers.
Dot Richardson, M.D., director and medical director of the National Training Center in Clermont, FL, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, will deliver the commencement address for Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine's 115th commencement.
Carol Bellamy, director of UNICEF since 1995, and a respected voice in the international community, will speak at the 2005 Exercises of Commencement at Grinnell College on Monday, May 23, 2005.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy will speak and receive an honorary degree at St. Lawrence University's Commencement in Canton, New York, on May 15.
Panelists from the recording, television and movie industries and lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Napster will join in a unique debate on the controversial issue of digital copyright in a forum titled 'The Download Debate Strikes Back,' at Cornell University April 14, streamed live on the Web.
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will speak at Colgate University's 2005 commencement ceremony May 15. Also receiving honorary degrees are the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, alumnus Emlyn Griffith, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, and artist Alex Katz.
Arnold Palmer, one of the most beloved golf legends of all time and a Wake Forest University alumnus, will deliver the university's commencement address May 16. He will address approximately 1,450 Wake Forest graduates during the 9 a.m. outdoor ceremony on University Plaza.
Leading South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich is the keynote speaker at Union Days 2005. "Unions in the Global Economy" is the overall theme of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations events April 6-8.
The 80th annual, student-led Hotel Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, April 7-9, 20005, for top hospitality industry executives, will feature five airline industry leaders speaking about important issues facing their industry, which many feel is in crisis.
Purdue University will try to light up a three-peat in complexity and inefficiency at the 18th annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The contest, which is free and open to the public, begins at 11 a.m., April 9 in the Purdue Armory on the Purdue campus.
Nationally renowned educators will address controversial issues in education that they consider to be of crisis proportions at a conference hosted by Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute (CDI) April 1 "“ 2.
Niall Ferguson, professor of international history at Harvard University, and Jeffrey Norwitz, professor of national security at the U. S. Naval War College are the featured speakers at this year's Rush D. Holt History Conference March 3-5 at West Virginia University.
The 22nd annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest will take place at 11 a.m. March 5, at the Purdue Armory. Sponsored by Theta Tau fraternity, the contest pits against each other teams of students and their machines designed to do simple tasks in the most complicated ways possible.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine's renowned Mini-Med School will begin it's free, 4-week spring session on March 29th. This well-known lecture series offers a unique opportunity for anyone interested in medical topics to learn from world-renowned physicians and scientists.
Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience is the theme of the 7th Annual Women's History Conference at Sarah Lawrence, to be held March 4 and 5 on the Sarah Lawrence campus, features award winning author Esmeralda Santiago as the keynote speaker.
A conference entitled "Homelands, Borders and Trade in Latin America: Freedom, Violence and Exchange After 9-11" will be hosted February 24-25 by the University of California, San Diego Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.
In an age where technology aims to simplify the world, a contest at Purdue University will reward students for creative complexity. The 22nd annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest will take place at 11 a.m. March 5, and the national competition will be on April 9, both at Purdue.
Intelligent design theory has received extensive national media coverage because of actions taken by the Dover (Pa.) School District and subsequent federal lawsuit by parents. Elizabethtown College is sponsoring a series of debates that will feature national key figures involved in the case.
The political and cultural socialization of students through public education will be the topic of a conference to be held from Feb. 18-20 on The University of Tulsa campus.
On Monday, January 10, 2005 at 3:00 PM, Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society and the Boston Red Sox will announce Major League Baseball's first violence prevention training partnership in the Curry Student Center Ballroom.
The School of Architecture is organizing the second international symposium on "Cities in Arid Regions" in collaboration with several international partners. Topics to be addressed include how cities in arid regions must deal with pressures created by rapid growth and scarcity of resources.
The University of Maryland will celebrate the graduation of more than 2,600 students who are applicants to receive bachelor and advanced degrees during commencement ceremonies on Saturday, December 18, at the Comcast Center. Maryland Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen is the featured speaker.
Democratic Representative, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, was born in Tucson in 1948. His father was a "bracero" who emigrated from Mexico in 1945 to help offset the loss of skilled American ranch hands serving with the armed forces in World War II.
News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. Participants will include a top journalism educator, a leading television national security producer and a highly respected newspaper editorial director. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held at The Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus.
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture has invited leaders from academia, government, nonprofit organizations, business and media to gather Nov. 18-20 for a free public symposium addressing the many public policy issues facing the South.
Venezuelan-U.S. relations, in the aftermath of the recent recall referendum that retained in office President Hugo Chavez Frias, will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Nov. 4 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The Michigan State University College of Law American Indian Law Program will hold its inaugural indigenous law conference, "Tribal Constitutional Issues in the Self-determination Era," Friday, Oct. 29.
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