For immediate release May 12, 1999
Contact: Don Hale (412) 268-2900
Author Iris Dart to Give Keynote Address At Carnegie Mellon's 102d Commencement, May 16
PITTSBURGH--Best-selling author Iris Rainer Dart and six honorary degree recipients, including three Nobel Prize winners, will be the headliners at Carnegie Mellon University's 102d commencement, 11 a.m., Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where more than 2,100 degrees will be conferred.
Dart, the author of seven novels, including "Beaches"--which was made into a feature film starring Bette Midler--and her latest work "When I Fall in Love," will deliver the keynote address. She has also authored "The Boys in the Mail Room," "'Til The Real Thing Comes Along," "I'll Be There," "The Stork Club" and "Show Business Kills."
Dart is adapting "When I Fall in Love," a story about the struggles of a single mother and how she and her son find an unusual husband/father to complete their family, into a screenplay for Universal Studios.
A Pittsburgh native, Dart earned her bachelor's degree in theater at Carnegie Mellon in 1966.
The six honorary degree recipients are: Shirley Brice Heath, a nationally acclaimed English and linguistics professor at Stanford University; Anita K. Jones, a university professor of computer science at the University of Virginia and former adviser to President Clinton's Secretary of Defense; Walter Kohn, a former physics professor at Carnegie Mellon (1950-60) who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his development of the density function theory; John F. Nash Jr., a senior research mathematician at Princeton University who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economic science for his "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"; John A. Pople, a former chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon (1961-86) who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his groundbreaking research in the development of computational methods in quantum chemistry; and William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, former assistant director of the National Science Foundation and former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon (1968-81). Wulf is married to Jones.
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