Google co-founder and Maryland alum Sergey Brin will be the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland's December 20th Commencement ceremonies.
UC San Diego will host leaders from the Bush Administration, industry, academia and non-governmental organizations, for the annual meeting of the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development, and a daylong workshop on water resources.
President Bush's top bioethics advisor, Leon Kass, M.D., Ph.D., will speak at the University of Michigan on Thursday, Dec. 3, addressing the ethical and moral dilemmas posed by modern medicine.
After a 40-year hiatus, Moravian College has resumed a tradition of hosting a tea each semester. The tea provides an occasion for female students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae to gather for an afternoon of conversation, designed to stimulate mentoring opportunities for students.
Bach scholars throughout the world will gather in Memphis, Tennessee on November 6 to hear Harvard professor and the world's leading Bach expert Dr.Christoph Wolff talk about a significant musical discovery and the Berlin Sing-Akademie.
More than 40 speakers will participate in a dozen workshops and other sessions at the VentureForth Entrepreneurs Conference on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Price Center on UC San Diego's La Jolla campus. The event is sponsored by the student group VentureForth.
Health care workers are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Chronic Care Conference at the Downers Grove (Ill.) Campus of Midwestern University. The conference will feature keynote speakers and sessions in pain management, quality of life, Alzheimer's disease, and more.
During the Cold War, the United States stepped onto the world stage as an artistic force, producing what was recognized for the first time as a bona fide national culture. At the same time, a period of unprecedented persecution began for homosexuals in America.
Jerry S. Rawls Hall, which will be dedicated with a baseball-themed event today (Thursday, 10/2), will almost double the size of the playing field and change the rules of the game for Purdue's Krannert School of Management students.
The International Conference on Race marks the conclusion of the University fo Mississippi's yearlong Open Doors observance. Featuring speakers from three continents, the conference shifts the focus from observing history to working for racial progress in the present and future.
Larry Kramer, internationally renowned author, playwright and AIDS activist, will deliver the Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities. His talk, sponsored by the U-M Center for the History of Medicine, takes place Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m. in the U-M Rackham Auditorium.
Moravian will celebrate 20 years of the Cohen Arts and Lectures Series with a timely lecture by Thomas L. Friedman, "The global economy and U.S. foreign policy," on Thursday, October 2, at 8 p.m.
Classical music is "just what the doctor ordered" when students perform for patients and care-givers at the Arizona Cancer Center. It's the only program of its kind in the United States.
History will be repeated on Aug. 28, as the more than 700 members of Gettysburg College's Class of 2007 process to the site of President Lincoln's famous address.
"Deadly serious" is how one University of Alberta researcher describes the decline of aboriginal languages in Canada and if something is not done to preserve them, they are at risk of dying out within two generations.
The University of Mississippi's William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation hosts its inaugural International Conference on Race Oct. 1-4 on the Oxford campus to explore racial reconciliation in international contexts.
Week-long fantasy camp for jazz players proves jazz is alive and well in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Former presidents Ford and Carter, Tom Brokaw, Rudy Giuliani and other dignitaries will help Sens. Bob and Elizabeth Dole dedicate the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics with a three-day "Greatest Generation's Greatest Celebration" event July 20-22.
The third annual tour hosted by the Southern Foodways Alliance offers an introduction to the foodways of Appalachia, a region where cultural, ethnic, geographic and agricultural forces converge to create a rich tradition in food and culture.
The 30th installment of the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, which attracts scholars from around the world, examines the environments in both the author's real and constructed worlds.
Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater feels a surprising and special kinship with a small-college ensemble from Illinois: the Elmhurst College Jazz Band.
Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern and James T. Morris, executive director of the World Food Programme, will be featured speakers at the second McGovern Center Conference: The Hungry Child, Nov. 6 at Dakota Wesleyan University.Ann Veneman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, has been invited to participate as well.
The James Joyce Quarterly at The University of Tulsa celebrates 40 years of publication in conjunction with the 2003 North American James Joyce Festival at TU June 16-20. This year's conference theme is "Post Industrial Joyce."
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, a nationally recognized expert in adolescent violence prevention, a dean at Harvard School of Public Health and a former Massachusetts commissioner of Public Health, will be the keynote speaker for this year's commencement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
The Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, part of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams College of Social Work, will host the Midwest Regional Conference on Hispanic/Latino Health and Human Services in Chicago, June 5-6.
Sydney Brenner, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver a commencement address entitled "The Worst Medical Student of 1950: A Personal Memoir," at the UCSD School of Medicine commencement.
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.
Mills College hosts the Annual Conference of the National Council for Research on Women: "Borders, Babies and Bombs: A Gendered Reframing of Security" May 29 - 31, 2003. It's the first West Coast event examining the impact of human security on women and children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Distance learning graduates who can't attend their upcoming K-State commencement ceremony, as well as their friends, family and well-wishers, can still get a taste of some of the pomp and circumstance at K-State's new virtual commencement Web site.
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.
At 100 years of age, Lillian Keirstead, of Easton, Maine, will don an academic robe to help celebrate her alma mater's centennial. Lillian will join other alumni, including several from the 50th class, for the University of Maine at Presque Isle's commencement ceremony on May 10, 2003.
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.
Digital Genres: Semiotic Technologies this Side of the Millennium, a two-day conference exploring how digital forms of communication are changing our lives. Scholars from Illinois to India will meet for papers and conversations in an environment where the internet and the academy cross-pollinate.
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.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will give the commencement address at Mills College's 115th graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 17, 2003.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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