Ms. Jobs, an alumna of Penn and the widow of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, is the founder and president of . Anthony Fauci and Kizzmekia Corbett (delivered virtually) Class of 2022 graduate Zuhal Saljooki (center) shared a hug with Zenab Youssef (left), a Class of 2020 graduate she hadnt seen in two years, and other graduating friends. Former President, Unigroup; Co-Chair, the Ferguson Commission. Speakers on May 7 & 8: The three-time Emmy award winning broadcaster, James Brown, is the current host of "The NFL Today" on CBS and "Inside The NFL" on Paramount +. Browns Baccalaureate tradition derives from the immense range of religious, ethnic, geographic, linguistic and musical traditions present within the campus community. Miles is dean and vice president for academic affairs at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, a consortium of nine Protestant and Roman Catholic seminaries. After the chancellor confers all degrees, there will be a moment where graduates can . Since 1776, all but three Brown University Commencements have been held at the Meeting House. Class of 2021 graduate Sonya Brooks, who earned a masters in urban education policy, speaks during the Graduate School ceremony on Saturday, May 1, part of Browns 253rd Commencement. The Commencement Speaker Nominations Committee will review the nominations and provide a list of recommended nominees to the President, who consults with the Board of Trustees before selecting the final speaker. Honorary degree recipients participating in Saturdays slate of. Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. '73, president of Prairie View A&M University, president emerita of both Brown University and Smith College, and one of the nation's foremost leaders in higher education, will be the principal speaker at Harvard's celebration of the Class of 2021 on Thursday, May 27. She was one of the founders, with the slain leader Stephen Biko, of South Africa's Black Consciousness movement in the 1960s, which held that blacks must be the leaders in their own liberation movement. Thank you, Chancellor for all the nice things you just said about me. Users can log in with a Brown ID or as a guest. Continuing a Brown Commencement tradition, two members of the Class of 1998 - Daniel Massey and Katherine Eckstein - will deliver senior orations to their classmates during the College Convocation at 10:15 a.m. Monday, May 25, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] During its Commencement and Reunion Weekend from May 27 to 29, Brown University will confer honorary doctorates on nine candidates who have achieved great distinction in a variety of fields. Commencement speakers include students and honored guests. Sherent Harris, a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, shared the Universitys newly adopted land acknowledgement at the start of the University Ceremony in recognition that Brown is located on lands within ancestral homelands of the Narragansett tribe. Class of 1975, the schools first graduating class. In addition, Brown will honor the late telecommunications pioneer George H. Billings (1950-2021), a Class of 1972 graduate. About the ceremony: The All-University Commencement will comprise of speeches from Boston University President Robert A. Brown percussionists lead the recessional to the Van Wickle Gates following the College ceremony. Vigilante is director of the women's HIV program at Miriam Hospital in Providence and has appointments on the Consensus Group on Health Care Reform and the AIDS Action Council, both of Washington, D.C., as well as the Community Prep School Long Range Planning Committee and Department of Corrections Community Advisory Board for Female Offenders. 1971 - Ren Dubos. Brown's commencement speaker is actor John Krasinski. Orations, Addresses and Forums with Honorary Degree Recipients. Commencement is an important milestone for all Brown students the culmination of their educational journey as undergraduates, graduate or medical students. graduate Adriel Barrios-Anderson 17 delivered his speech, Experts in Uncertainty, at the Warren Alpert Medical School Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Faculty applaud graduates as they carry out the Commencement tradition of leaving through the Van Wickles Gates following the afternoon ceremony. Speakers: Oprah, Awkwafina, Jennifer Garner, Lil Nas X, gymnast Simone Biles. Class of 2021 graduates applaud a speaker during the morning College ceremony. She will do her residency in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. Dr. Mukesh K. Jain will preside over his first graduation ceremony as Browns dean of medicine and biological sciences and will administer the Physicians Oath, a version of the Hippocratic Oath prepared by the M.D. Medical school graduate Soumitri Barua processes jubilantly through the Van Wickle Gates following the Saturday morning ceremony. Named June 27, 1997, as president-elect of Brown, Gee is a well-known national advocate for higher education. High School Reunion tournament on Thursday, Feb. 23. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Thompson is the first African American and second woman to serve as a judge on the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. The University will honor nine candidates who have achieved great distinction in their fields: Shaggy will receive his degree during the Undergraduate Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday. Commencement procession 9:45 a.m. 1966 - Lester B. Pearson. All degrees are symbolically conferred during the University Commencement Ceremony. Telling stories about her . Student speakers will address their classmates in longstanding Brown tradition, and three honorary degree recipients U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Seth Berkley of the Vaccine Alliance, and recording artist Shaggy will deliver remarks at prominent weekend events. He became one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed leadership of West Virginia University in 1981 at the age of 37. Graduate students celebrate their 2021 Commencement safely by processing through Browns Van Wickle Gates with masks on. The Universitys ceremonial Van Wickle Gates open for only two reasons: when new students enter campus to begin their studies and when new graduates depart for the world beyond Brown. A Brown staff member sprays down seats between events, part of Browns efforts to keep participants in this years Commencement ceremonies safe and healthy. She was elected vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town in 1995. Student speakers. Professor Colin Harrington delivers his faculty address remotely during the May 1 medical school ceremony. Taylor Swift, New York University. From famous celebrities and award-winning athletes, to successful entrepreneurs and bestselling authors, hire a sought-after commencement speaker this spring to encourage your university . Doctor of Science. Browns newest medical graduates process following the ceremony. Atkins, a nationally recognized education innovator, leads the nonprofit Together Education. This years forums address timely issues on topics that range from tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis, to reflecting on Title IX at 50 years, to new approaches to global security and justice. Revisit all the exciting moments of Browns 254th Commencement celebrations on Sunday, May 29, 2022, including the Procession and the ceremonies of the College, the Graduate School, the Warren Alpert Medical School and the University. Also notably lacking from commencement ceremonies this year: any member of the Trump administration or conservative member of the U.S. House or Senate. Class of 2020 Procession 9:45 a.m. | The Van Wickle Gates Note: This list will be updated throughout the commencement season. George Kubai and Siddhi Nadkarni, Browns undergraduate student orators, encouraged classmates to work toward a better and more equitable future for themselves and those around them. Members of the Class of 2020 will take part in this Commencement tradition as they march across the College Green, through the Van Wickle Gates, and process to their Commencement ceremonies. This years graduating class of 148 will continue their training at residency programs across the country. Facebook's event will be co-hosted by The Office vets Mindy Kaling and B.J. What was originally called Harvard College (around which Harvard University eventually grew) held its first Commencement in September 1642, when nine degrees were conferred. Open details for Student speakers take center stage at Brown's Commencement. The ceremony will also be live-streamed on the web. Class of 2020 masters of public health graduate Abdullah Shihipar delivered his speech, A Better World is Possible: Using Our Platforms to Imagine New Possibilities, at the Class of 2020 Graduate School Ceremony on Saturday, May 28, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Adriel Barrios-Anderson, who served as a student orator upon earning his bachelors degree from Brown in 2017, hopes to inspire newly minted M.D.s to feel confident about embracing the uncertainty of the future. Graduates exit through the Van Wickles Gates following the afternoon College ceremony. Commencement speakers include students and honored guests New President E. Gordon Gee, theologian Margaret R. Miles, South African university chancellor Mamphela Ramphele and members of the Class of 1998 are among those who will speak during Brown's 230th Commencement Weekend, May 23-25. Journalists and Authors. In 1998-99 she will be president of the American Academy of Religion. Margaret R. Miles, a leader in theological education, will present this year's baccalaureate address at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 24, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church of America. Commencement at John Brown University is held every year in May and December and streamed online. Rider University 2083 Lawrenceville Road Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. graduates at the Warren Alpert Medical School Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. As Brown celebrates Commencement and Reunion Weekend 2022, look no further for complete news, photo, video and social media coverage of the festivities, both in-person and virtual. While at Brown, Massey helped found the Student Labor Alliance (SLA) and announced hockey and basketball games for WBSR-FM, the student radio station. 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Paxson will preside over an Undergraduate Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday to celebrate those recent graduates, as well as the Universitys 254th Commencement on Sunday, which will honor the Class of 2022. The ceremonies will also be streamed live and graduates unable to attend in person will be recognized online on the commencement website. President Christina Paxson will greet the class, deliver remarks and confer bachelor degrees on the church grounds. Commencement Speaker: Diana Natalicio, Ph.D. President, University of Texas at El Paso. 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Brown University alumni congratulate the Class of 2021 on their achievements and welcome them to a strong community of Brown graduates around the world. The Baccalaureate began with a procession from the heart of College Hill to the church, led by Class Coordinating Board co-presidents Bree Zhang and Melissa Cui. Rich McClure. Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, Doctor of Humane Letters. College of Business, Nursing, etc.) 1905: franklin murphy, president of the board of visitors. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the web. In 2006, when the graduating senior class had grown too large to be safely accommodated, the students voted to preserve the tradition by holding a portion of the Commencement ceremony on the church grounds. Class of 2021 graduate George Kubai, a biomedical engineering concentrator, delivers one of the senior orations during the College ceremony on Sunday, May 2, part of Browns 253rd Commencement. A&T Taps Emmy Award-Winning Actor Brown as Spring Commencement Speaker. As Brown celebrates Commencement 2022, Jiuyang Bai and Amelia Spalter will address their peers in separate Ph.D. and masters ceremonies on College Hill on Sunday, May 29. He is also a special correspondent . Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala MCP '78, PhD '81, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will deliver the address at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony to all members of the Class of 2022 on Friday, May 27. Dr. Henry J. Mankin, chairman emeritus of the Department of Orthopaedics at Harvard Medical School, will speak in the Brown University School of Medicine's Commencement Convocation which begins at 8:45 a.m. Monday, May 25, in the First Unitarian Church, Benefit and Benevolent Streets. Departmental Ceremonies 2:45 | Various locations Brown University welcomed back its 2020 graduates, who missed their in-person Commencement when COVID-19 arrived their senior year, for the full, traditional experience of Commencement and Reunion Weekend. With the return of the Class of 2020 this year, the weekend includes even more student speakers than usual: Honorary degrees are awarded by the Board of Fellows of the Brown Corporation and conferred by the University president in English and in Latin. 1969 - Edward Kennedy. Laurene Powell Jobs will be the 2021 commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania. Click the image for the full list. The Class of 2022 Masters Commencement Ceremony is led by Dean of the School of Professional Studies Leah VanWey and includes an invocation, welcome, student awards, awarding of more than 800 masters degrees and a benediction. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi addressed the graduates at the University Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Her most recent books include Reading for Life: Beauty, Pluralism and Responsibility; Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies; Desire and Delight: A new reading of Augustine's Confessions; and Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West. All of the events throughout Commencement Weekend followed all state and University health protocols, including masking and social distancing. A concentrator in African-American Studies and American Civilization, Massey, 22, studied at Fort Hare in South Africa during his junior year. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE. Mira Nikolova and Abdullah Shihipar, who respectively earned a Ph.D. and masters from Brown in 2020, will return to campus to address their fellow alumni during a dedicated Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 28. Please contact the Commencement Office at commencement@jhu.edu or 410-516-7711 by April 21, 2023, to request ASL Interpreters, Assisted Listening Devices, and Braille program booklets. [3] Today some 1700 undergraduate degrees, and 5000 advanced degrees from the university's various graduate and professional schools, are conferred each Commence . Open details for Brown Universitys 255th Commencement. Class of 2022, introduced Barrios-Anderson. Scholar, Author and Former Director of the Institute of Jesuit Sources. Enthusiastic to celebrate the Class of 2023's big day, Brown wants her . Michael Greene, Doctor of Music. "I am delighted to announce that Ruth Simmons will deliver our principal address," said Harvard . Here are highlights of the honorary degree recipients and commencement speakers scheduled to address CUNY's Class of 2022: Dr. Sandra Lindsay, director of Patient Care Services at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the first person in the U.S. to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, will address Lehman College and receive the Alumni Achievement . Gendo Taiko, a student-run Japanese drumming group, received a thundering standing ovation after its performance. On the day of his death, Paxson conferred upon him a Doctor of Humane Letters and presented him a doctoral hood. Dr. Seth Berkley, a physician and public health leader who earned his bachelors degree and M.D. The Van Wickle Gates. Since its founding in 1764, Brown has selected members of the graduating class to speak during its Commencement ceremonies. Class of 2022 Baccalaureate Service 2:30 p.m. | Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America Brown University alumnus David Lobell, Class of 2000, accepts his honorary Doctor of Science as part of the 2021 College Commencement ceremony on May 2. Campus Dance. A procession will precede the ceremony, which will be presided over by Dean of the Graduate School Andrew G. Campbell and Dean of the School of Professional Studies Leah VanWey. With the return of the Class of 2020 this year, the weekend includes even more student speakers than usual: . Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Colin Harrington, M.D., delivers the faculty address to graduates at the 2021 Warren Alpert Medical School Commencement ceremony, part of Browns 253rd Commencement. Since its founding in 1764, Brown has selected members of the graduating class to speak during its Commencement ceremonies. from Brown, delivered the Baccalaureate address to the undergraduate Class of 2022. Brown Commencements have been major events for University guests and Providence residents since the 18th century. These sought-after commencement speakers have spoken around the country at prestigious universities such as Harvard, NYU, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan. During Commencement and Reunion Weekend, the University bestowed honorary degrees on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Seth Berkley of the Vaccine Alliance, recording artist Shaggy and six other accomplished leaders. If you are planning to join us in 2023, please consider making arrangements early to ensure the best possible experience. Warren Alpert Medical School Dean Jack A. Elias presides over the 2021 Commencement ceremony. Quincy Jones, Doctor of Music. The bash concludes with a festive Senior Sing at midnight on the steps of Sayles Hall. Speakers. The 860 candidates who were eligible to participate in the ceremonies . 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Boston University President Robert Brown announced this years' Commencement and Baccalaureate speakers on April 30 during a virtual rendition of the annual Senior Breakfast. Acclaimed TV, theater director to return to Lawrence as Commencement speaker. Class of 2022 Ph.D. graduate Jiuyang Bai delivered his speech, Don't Be Afraid of Being Vulnerable, at the Doctoral Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. By Olga Benacerraf and Jess Marrero Suarez. Multiple weekend events are open to the public and many of the most prominent events will be streamed live on the web an abbreviated summary of the weekend follows, and additional information and updates are available on Browns Commencement and Reunion websites. will present the graduates from that college just like they would during an in-person ceremony. The Class of 2023 graduates will be seated with their school/college and recognized . Swift will join an impressive list of past NYU Commencement speakers including President Bill Clinton (2011), Sonia Sotomayor (2012), David Boies (2013), Janet Yellen (2014), Sherrilyn Ifill (2015 . Savannah Sellers | Spring 2019. UGA . A fully virtual Reunion Weekend, featuring longstanding traditions and unexpected twists, and a series of remote Commencement forums complemented in-person events taking place on College Hill from April 30 to May 2. Lynn Gangone is the commencement speaker and will speak to the ECU 2020 Class. Members of Browns graduating Class of 2021 shout out the moments and people that got them through the past year and made their time on campus special. Astrophysicist Brian G. Keating, a 2000 Ph.D. graduate of Brown, will receive the Horace Mann Medal and will speak at a 12:30 p.m. Commencement Forum on Saturday. Undergraduate Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony 10:30 a.m. | First Baptist Church They will address DePaul's approximately 6,500 graduates at the university's commencement ceremonies May 14 and June 10-11. Duke University will welcome General Motors CEO Mary Barra as commencement speaker and honor four honorary degree recipients at its commencement exercises on Sunday, May 8, in Wallace Wade Stadium, President Vincent Price announced Tuesday. Separate departmental ceremonies for each academic department follow the main ceremony and provide a more intimate atmosphere for families and College graduates. May 2, 2022. Fred and Gayle had specific ideas about the architecture and tone . Brown schedules class reunions and Commencement on the same weekend, allowing alumni to welcome graduating seniors into the fold while also celebrating their lifelong connection to the University. 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