W. Richard West, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, will be the commencement speaker and receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the 2 p.m. June 10 graduation ceremonies at UAB Bartow Arena.
Fifty graduating seniors will receive their bachelor's degrees during Marlboro College's 54th Commencement at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 20. Joseph Sebarenzi, former parliamentary speaker of the Republic of Rwanda, will deliver the commencement address.
Bill Cosby today urged the 1,100 graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to change the world by being honest, remaining humble, and continuing to learn from others.
Hofstra University is preparing for graduation festivities scheduled for the end of May. The largest class to date, more than 1,800 undergraduates and graduates will celebrate commencement on Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21, 2001
Dr. Tom Morris, well-known business speaker and author, will address graduates at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on Saturday, May 19.
The Honorable Elaine L. Chao, United States Secretary of Labor in the Bush Cabinet will be among the recipients of honorary degrees and awards at Commencement Exercises at St. John's University in New York on Sunday, May 20, 2001.
The Hon. Sila Calderon, the first woman governor of Puerto Rico, will deliver the address at Boston University's 128th commencement exercises Sunday, May 20, at 11 a.m. President Jon Westling announced the speaker during the annual senior brunch, held on campus last week.
The Honorable Charles E. Schumer, the senior U.S. senator from New York, will join entertainer and educator Bill Cosby in speaking to graduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 195th Commencement this Saturday, May 12, 9:30 a.m. at the Pepsi Arena in Albany.
Richard Butler, who oversaw the United Nation's Special Commission charged with the disarmament of Iraq, is the guest speaker at Washington and Lee School of Law Commencement May 13.
More than 3,000 students, their families and friends will welcome Gov. Parris N. Glendening as he delivers the commencement address at the University of Maryland at 9 a.m. May 24.
Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel will speak at the commencement ceremonies of New York University School of Medicine on Thursday, May 11.
Antonio Mora, news anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," will speak at the 128th Ursinus College Commencement at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 19, on the front lawn of campus. The ceremony will be held outdoors, rain or shine.
The 2001 graduates (1,170 students) are the first Spring graduating class to receive diplomas from first-year Creighton President Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Creighton is inaugurating a new honor at commencement, the Presidential Medallion.
CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather to deliver commencement address and receive honorary degree at Colgate University. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu; Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr., National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; and Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor also to receive honorary degrees from Colgate on May 20, 2001.
A pioneering evolutionary biologist, a noted TV news analyst and the former heads of the FDA and National Science Foundation are among the six individuals who will receive honorary degrees at North Carolina State University's Commencement on May 19.
Rev. Abuna Elias Chacour spoke at the 2001 Commencement Ceremony to the largest graduating class in U of Indianpolis history. Chacour founded the Mar Elias Educational Institution in Israel, the only private interfaith educational facility in Galilee.
Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. trade representative during the Clinton administration, will offer advice and encouragement to new graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science during commencement exercises this spring.
Helen Thomas, renowned journalist for the past 40 years, will deliver the keynote address at the College of Saint Benedict commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 26, in the Clemens Field House.
Pomp plus circumstance, mixed with student success equals Temple's 114th commencement.
For the first time in recent history, the University of California, San Diego will hold an all-campus commencement ceremony and graduation rites for its five undergraduate colleges on a single day-Sunday, June 17. Programs for two graduate divisions will be held the preceding day, June 16, while the UCSD School of Medicine will hold its commencement June 3.
Rene Auberjonois, a 1962 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and recipient of many accolades for his performances in television, in film and on Broadway, will be the speaker for Carnegie Mellon's commencement on Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 11 a.m.
Chancellor Gordon Gee will give his first Commencement speech to approximately 2,200 students at Vanderbilt University's graduation exercises Friday, May 11.
The mayor of Charlotte, Catawba College Alumnus Pat McCrory, will be the featured speaker during Catawba College"šs Graduation Exercise at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 12 on the lawn of the Abernethy Quadrangle.
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. ˆ Fred de Sam Lazaro, correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will deliver the commencement address at Saint John's at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 27, in the Saint John's Abbey Church.
Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall and U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone are two of the speakers who will appear at this year's University of Minnesota-Twin Cities commencement ceremonies.
Everett Alvarez, Jr., the first American aviator shot down over North Vietnam, will serve as keynote speaker at commencement ceremonies for the University of North Texas Health Science Center May 19.
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., United States Surgeon General, is the commencement speaker for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine May 24, 2001.
Jeff Greenfield, a senior analyst for CNN's "Inside Politics," will speak May 20 at Bucknell University's commencement ceremony. Greenfield was host of CNN's seven-part series, "Democracy in America."
Distinguished theologian James I. Packer, professor of Systematic and Historial Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, addressed graduates in separate ceremonies at Wheaton College (IL) May 5 and 6.
A list of individuals who will speak Saturday, May 12, at commencement ceremonies of University of Wyoming Colleges.
Boston University School of Medicine announces Anamaria Bulatovic, MD, MPH, FAAP, president, Doctors Without Borders, as this year's commencement speaker. The BUSM Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m. at the World Trade Center in Boston.
Russert is the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" and is a political analyst for the "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and the "Today" show.
Cisco Systems CEO and West Virginia University alumnus John T. Chambers will address graduates at his alma mater Sunday, May 13, when he gives the 1:30 p.m. main address at WVU's 132nd Commencement at the WVU Coliseum.
The scheduled speaker for the University of Arizona's 124th Commencement ceremonies is basketball coach, Lute Olson.
To be honored at Smith Commencement: Novelist Toni Morrison, who received an honorary degree at Smith in 1991, as well as five leaders and visionaries in their respective fields will be recognized with honorary doctoral degrees.
New York-based designer Kenneth Cole will give the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health convocation keynote address.
Noted civil rights activist and architect of the highly successful Algebra project, Bob Moses, will be the guest speaker at the 2001 Grinnell College commencement ceremonies.
Commencement exercises like these are perhaps the most elaborate civic rituals in our American culture. The funny hats and get-ups, capelike hoods with an arcane code of symbolic colors explained in the program, the procession.
A University of Mississippi graduate who has played a significant role in the success stories of several high-profile companies and now is investing in his home state through a $100 million reading institute gives UM's 2001 commencement address May 12.
Don Carty, the chairman, president and chief executive officer of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, will give the address May 19 at Southern Methodist University's 86th annual commencement ceremony.
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and father of the current president, will give the commencement address at LSU's 244th spring commencement ceremonies May 18.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, a 1977 Colorado College alumnus, will speak during Colorado College's 2001 commencement ceremony.
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