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Oscar-winning Director Ang Lee and Educator Ruth Simmons To Speak at NYU's 169th Commencement

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Writer Stephen King will deliver Vassar College's 137th commencement address on Sunday, May 20.

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Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, a 1977 Colorado College alumnus, will speak during Colorado College's 2001 commencement ceremony.

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Bernadette Castro, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, will deliver the commencement address to the Daemen College Class of 2001. Ceremonies will begin 1 p.m., May 19, 2001, at Shea's Buffalo Performing Arts Center.

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William H. Gray, III, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), will speak at the University of Washington Commencement exercises June 9 at Husky Stadium.

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Speakers for 2001 Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.) Commencement: Scott E. Carson of The Boeing Company; Edward Fritzky of Immunex Corp.; and Larry EchoHawk of the Brigham Young University Law School

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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m.

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Distinguished historian David McCullough, whose prize-winning books have been praised for scholarship, literary distinction and insight into American life, will deliver the Commencement address at the University of Delaware on Saturday, May 26.

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The Univ. of Arkansas announces Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan will deliver the all-university commencement address on Saturday, May 12. Queen Noor also will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters for her internationally significant achievements.

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Former first lady Barbara Bush will be the third member of the Bush family to appear at Wake Forest. She will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate of humanities at the May 21 ceremony.

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Graduation ceremonies at Grove City College will begin with theology professor Steve Brown speaking at Baccalaureate. The 121st ceremonies conclude with Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating giving the Commencement address at 10:30 a.m. May 19 in the Arena.

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The Florida Legislature isn't alone this year in discussing the merits of installing Internet filters on computers to shield young eyes from objectionable material. An international conference, May 2-5, at Florida State University also will address the issue and the latest developments and thinking about computers, the Internet and related technologies in the classroom.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will bestow honorary doctoral degrees on Vinton G. Cerf, known as the "Father of the Internet," entertainer and educator Bill Cosby, and renowned sociologist William Julius Wilson.

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Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general and a member of the Class of 1960, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26, 2001.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will co-host "Pursuing Victory With Honor: A Sports Summit on Sportsmanship, Ethics and Character Building," the first event of its kind on the East Coast, April 30th, for more than 500 coaches and others.

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Hip Hop Generation's second annual "Hip Hop As A Movement" conference, April 20-22, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focuses on youth activism, the global influence of hip hop and the role of youth and elders in the social justice movement.

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"The Essential Bob Dylan," 30 songs on two CD's, boils the legendary singer's 40-year career down to a couple of hours. Michael Gray, on the other hand, spent most of the 1990s working on the massive third (and final) edition of his seminal work, Song & Dance Man, described as the definitive study of the work of Bob Dylan.

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Named by the Gallup Poll as one of the world's 10 most admired women, former American Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole will be the keynote speaker at Louisiana State University's 75th Campus Jubilee celebration on April 30.

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Carnegie Mellon will host a forum on making computer technology and computer science more attractive to girls and young women. Experts will discuss girls' relationships with technology in education, entertainment and home, new technologies to reflect their interests and how they can influence development of new computer technologies

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A team of Purdue University students devised a home heating fuel oil that is cheaper and burns cleaner than regular fuel oil, earning first place today (3/27) in the seventh annual New Uses for Soybeans Student Contest.

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Some endeavors like medicine or clinical research are described as combining art and science, meaning they bring the facts and figures as well as the intuitive and emotional interpretation of them. The April 11 kickoff of construction at the University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute melds art and science in a number of ways.

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Acclaimed novelist Toni Morrison will be the speaker at Smith College's 123rd commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20, 2001.

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The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University will celebrate its centennial with a feast of lectures, panel discussions, exhibits and more at the Centennial Celebration Weekend on the Cornell campus, March 30-31, 2001. It is open to the public.

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A symposium at Smith College will examine the role of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee which, through clandestine operations, rescued some 2,000 writers, artists, intellectuals and activists from Nazi-dominated Europe in 1940.

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Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, a college student who was beaten to death for being gay, will be speaking at Hollins University April 17.

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Cathy Rigby, a 1968 Olympic gold medal gymnast, recovered anorexic and Broadway actor, will be speaking at Hollins University March 8. The general public is invited to attend this free event.

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Ann Compton, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News.com, is the commencement speaker for Hollins University's 159th graduation ceremony in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Kris Neely is in the midst of his yearlong travels around the world seeking connections of water and the spirit, a journey made possible by his selection as the 16th Wofford College Presidential International Scholar.

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On Thursday, March 8, amid worldwide celebrations of International Women's Day, Smith College will kick off a four-day international conference marking the launch of its new and widely heralded women's studies journal, "Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism."

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Industry executives, public utility leaders, and educators of energy finance, risk management, and natural resource policy gather for a day of panel discussions and Q & A.

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Bugs hissing, bugs racing, bugs in a stew. Bug petting, bug study in a bug zoo. Bugs and more bugs are the featured attraction at Purdue University's annual Bug Bowl, April 7-8.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for the Humanities will present its first Humanities Festival, "Jane Austen in the 21st Century," April 23-29 in venues on campus and around Madison.

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This semester at the University at Albany, six internationally recognized speakers-writers, scholars, policy experts, and labor organizers-will address cracks in democracy and the attempts to heal them in South Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. in the lecture series "Cultures of Conflict and Reconciliation."

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One year after she launched the Snell women's coaching project at Ursinus College, Jen Shillingford is starting to see the ripple effect of her efforts--her ideas are catching on.

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Nationally recognized leader in the treatment of sexual problems will speak at the School of Social Work's winter seminar.

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The students from Fort Smallwood Elementary School in Anne Arundel County who built the "Braces In Space" experiment with the help of the University of Maryland Dental School will pack their experiment for the space shuttle.

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The Purdue University's 19th annual Rube Goldberg contest slated for Feb. 10 honors the late cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. This year's machines must select, clean and peel an apple in 20 steps or more.

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Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of Great Britain, will deliver the 2001 Broyhill Executive Lecture at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management on Friday, Feb. 16.

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Entrepreneurship students from six MBA schools across the nation will compete for $10,000 in prize money in the inaugural Kauffman/Angell Center For Entrepreneurship National Case-Writing Competition on Jan. 26-27.

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Students are racing against time in a high-tech showdown to create new, commercially viable internet technology in Purdue's first annual Internet Olympiad. "The goal of the Internet Olympiad," said associate head of Computer Sciences, "is to get students to develop a prototype of an Internet application.

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Playwright Shelley Russell's latest effort is Holdin' Our Own: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The play opens at Northern Michigan University Nov. 8 -- two days before the 25th anniversary of the tragedy

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Poets and poetry have long been celebrated at Bucknell, so it was fitting that poems be part of the pomp in the inaugural ceremonies for the university's 15th president.

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Bucknell's President Proposes 10-Year Plan at Inauguration

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A number of leading figures in education reform, including Ted Sizer, will gather at Smith College Nov. 3 - 4 for the premiere of "'Only'A Teacher," a documentary examining the changing role of the American teacher from the mid-1800s to the present.

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"Baseball's Future: Competitive Balance and Labor Relations" will bring together eight leading figures in sports economics, journalism and management to discuss ways to restore competition and avoid labor strife in America's pastime.

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More than 80 years after it was written, Carl Sandburg's 1918 prose poem "Prairie" is being reinterpreted in musical form, thanks to the efforts of another Illinois native son whose artistic ambitions have taken him far from his prairie roots.

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A literary giant of 20th century American literature and native son of Illinois will be celebrated Oct. 28 at the University of Illinois Library.

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President and CEO of HotJobs.com, and some 40 other Bucknell alumni, parents and friends who are in the forefront of the New Economy will participate in a symposium on the university campus.

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A presentation on health issues among college men by a national authority in the field is part of an ongoing effort by Saint John's University to counter alarming trends in the status of men's health.

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Vanderbilt is helping to ensure that the Holocaust is not forgotten by sponsoring a two-and-a-half-week lecture series that remembers this grim period in history. This year the focus is on the arts.