Newswise — Tim Russert, JD, moderator of "Meet the Press" and Washington bureau chief of NBC News, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Maryland, Baltimore's 2004 Commencement. Russert, will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree at the ceremony, set for Friday, May 21, at 3 p.m. at the First Mariner Arena on Baltimore and Howard streets.
"We are very excited to have Tim Russert as a speaker at commencement," says President David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil. "His important and groundbreaking work as a journalist will be an inspiration to graduates from all of our programs."
More than 1,800 candidates are eligible for degrees from the schools of medicine, law, nursing, social work, pharmacy, the Dental School, and the Graduate School, and from programs in dental hygiene, medical and research technology, physical therapy, and genetic counseling.
Russert joined NBC News in 1984, and took over the helm of "Meet the Press" in December 1991. Since then, the program has become the most watched Sunday morning interview program in America, and the most quoted news program in the world.
A graduate of John Carroll University and an honors graduate of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Russert has received 29 honorary doctoral degrees from American colleges and universities. He has lectured at the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan presidential libraries.
Russert's interviews in 2000 with presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore won the Radio and Television Correspondents Association's highest honor, the Joan S. Barone Award, as well as the Annenberg Center's Walter Cronkite Award. He is also the recipient of the John Peter Zenger Award, the American Legion Journalism Award, and the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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