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.
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.
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.
The chief academic officers of three research universities will convene to discuss academic freedom, affirmative action, diversity and the changing public role of the university from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Place Dr. in Chicago.
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.
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.
Mildred Hughes-Fulford, NASA astronaut and cancer researcher, named commencement speaker at Dominican University of California.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will be the commencement speaker at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine's DO commencement June 1, 2003.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
New England Conservatory Opera Theater presents Leonard Bernstein's Candide in Northeastern University's Blackman Auditorium April 24-27.
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.
Alan Alda will present a seminar for Southampton College writing, theater and film students as part of the Southampton Special College Lecture Series on Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Avram Theater.
The Boston Architectural Center welcomes theater historian, designer, and consultant Iain Mackintosh of Theatre Projects Consultants, London, as the speaker at the 11th Annual Cascieri Lectureship in the Humanities on Friday, April 25, 2003, at 7:30pm.
W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk," the book that defined how scholars, activists, artists, policy makers and the public at large approach issues surrounding race in America, will celebrate 100 years with an international symposium and a week of related events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As other students while away Spring Break in the Ft. Lauderdale sun, Colorado College students will be restoring the Canyonlands and working with children in Chicago.
Leading constitutional law scholars from around the country will gather at the University of Minnesota Law School on Monday, Feb. 24, for a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison.
The first major Montana event commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition will be held May 28-30 at The University of Montana-Missoula. The three-day symposium will offer a uniquely Indian perspective on the Corps of Discovery and its pivotal impact on American history.
Scholars, lawyers, journalists, historians and others interested in the landmark Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison will gather in Baltimore to mark the 200th anniversary of the decision that established the authority of the high court to declare laws unconstitutional.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen will deliver the address at Colgate University's 182nd commencement on Sunday, May 18.
Theta Tau Fraternity's 21st annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday, Feb. 15, will display an environmental "can-do" spirit. This year student teams must build a machine that can select, crush and pitch a 12-ounce aluminum can into a recycling bin in at least 20 steps.
Written in the 1850s, scholars now believe The Bondwoman's Narrative to be the first novel ever written by a black woman and the only one by a formerly enslaved woman.
A major conference at Smith College--"Homeland Insecurity: Civil Liberties, Repression and Citizenship in the 1950s"--will bring together leading scholars and activists from a range of disciplines to examine the implications of Cold War-era repressions for academic and personal freedoms today.
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.
Democratic reform and poverty alleviation in Africa are the focus of a major symposium at Cornell Oct. 24-26, 2002. Keynote speaker is Johann Kriegler, who headed South Africa's electoral commission during country's first inclusive elections.
Six noted Smith College alumnae, including Gloria Steinem and Molly Ivins, will reflect on the civic responsibilities of today's colleges and their graduates. The Oct. 19 discussion is part of inauguration festivities honoring Smith's tenth president, Carol T. Christ.
The Colgate University department of political science and the program in international relations will sponsor a forum on the possibility of a U.S.-led war in Iraq on Tuesday evening, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Auditorium (Olin Hall) on campus. A panel of Colgate professors will give brief individual presentations, followed by an open forum for questions and discussion.
Cherokee potters Amanda Swimmer, Betty Maney and Davy Arch will demonstrate their once-lost art on Thursday (Sept. 19) at a workshop for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduates and the public.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, will be the keynote speaker Oct. 16 at Southern Connecticut State University during a forum to mark the 75th anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions.
Kenneth Bacon, former Pentagon spokesman under the Clinton administration and president of Refugees International, will present the keynote address for Gettysburg College's 2002-2003 Area Studies Symposium, "Cultures of War and Peace."
Ohio Wesleyan University's Fall Semester Sagan National Colloquium Public Affairs Series Begins on Sept. 4 with Keynote Speaker Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and Campaign Ambassador for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
NYIT's New York College of Osteopathic Medicine welcomed its incoming classes of 2005 and 2006 recently at its annual White Coat Ceremony, which stresses the humanistic element of the medical profession.
Marlboro College is pleased to announce its upcoming privilege to host Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. at a public talk at the Whittemore Theater on the Marlboro College campus on Friday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. The talk will be followed by an 8 p.m. reception and book signing in the Drury Gallery, located next to the Whittemore Theater.
Well-known scholars, journalists, and public figures will, in combination with CC faculty, address major political, philosophical, and social issues facing us in the post-9/11 world. The upcoming Colorado College William Jovanovich symposium, "September 11 -- One Year Later: Responding to Global Challenges," will run from Thursday, September 12, to Saturday, September 14.
Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed in America" is Required Summer Reading for Entering Smith Students.
November 2002 marks the 50th anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower's election to the presidency of the United States. A conference on Oct. 25 - 27 will examine the critical 1952 election and Eisenhower legacies in domestic and foreign affairs.
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