Brown percussionists lead the recessional to the Van Wickle Gates following the College ceremony. Graduate Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony 10:15 a.m. | Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Brown University alumnus Steven R. Jordan, Class of 1982, a business leader and former NFL player, speaks to the graduating Class of 2021 as part of Baccalaureate on April 30. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the web, and simulcast for family and friends to view via screens on the College Green. The University will celebrate its Class of 2022 graduates, members of the Class of 2020 who missed their in-person Commencement experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and alumni from across the generations. Other speakers include: Thursday, May 20. . Two ceremonies will be held at Truist Stadium . 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. . "We have to make decisions about community and our responsibility," said
Eckstein, adding that responsibility necessitates action. Scholar, Author and Former Director of the Institute of Jesuit Sources. A pioneer in global public health, Berkley is both a champion of equitable access to vaccines, and a driving force for improving the way the world prevents and responds to infectious disease. Because seating is limited, only
graduating seniors will be admitted into the church. Brown will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of business leaders, educators, scholars and scientists during its Commencement and Reunion Weekend celebration from April 30 to May 2. Greene received her undergraduate degree from Yale
University in English. Brown University President Christina H. Paxson speaks to graduating seniors in the Class of 2021 during the College ceremony on Sunday, May 2, part of Browns 253rd Commencement. 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 +. Meir is a marine biologist and NASA astronaut who made history during her 2019-20 space mission when she conducted the first three all-woman spacewalks. These sought-after commencement speakers have spoken around the country at prestigious universities such as Harvard, NYU, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan. The group featured 95 undergraduate students earning a perfect 4.0 GPA, 224 student veterans and includes . Browns oath was written by the medical Class of 1975 and has been used by each succeeding class. 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. A&T Taps Emmy Award-Winning Actor Brown as Spring Commencement Speaker. 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. In 1998-99 she will be president of the American
Academy of Religion. Students present at Commencement call and text loved ones, who watch from afar because of the pandemic. Graduates process through the gates and onto their respective Commencement ceremonies, and alumni join in the fun. In a virtual address during the annual celebration of cultures and traditions, former NFL player, business leader and Brown alumnus Steven Jordan urged graduates to uncover their purposes in life by examining their passions. Graduates exit through the Van Wickles Gates following the afternoon College ceremony. University President Christina H. Paxson addresses masters and doctoral students directly during the Graduate School Commencement ceremony an opportunity usually not afforded given simultaneous ceremonies. Senior Michelle Liu delivered her speech, Take a Moment, at the University Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Savannah Seller's 2019 Commencement Speech was abbreviated due to inclement weather, below are her remarks as prepared. Class of 2022 graduates gather on the Main Green for the University Ceremony. Anthony Fauci and Kizzmekia Corbett (delivered virtually) Bush, right, also received . Meet Our Commencement 2021 Speakers. Space is limited and the University may limit the total number of credentials awarded. Michael Greene, Doctor of Music. If you are planning to join us in 2023, please consider making arrangements early to ensure the best possible experience. Mamphela Ramphele, vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town in South
Africa, will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Lecture on International Affairs at
3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 23, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching. Jack Kemp, Doctor of Laws. Matthew Brown/Hearst Connecticut Media Show More Show Less 68 of 81 Matthew Roer, Senior Class Speaker, at left, listens to Thomas Main, Head of School, deliver his final remarks at King School . Brown's new President E. Gordon Gee will give his inaugural address at 11:30
a.m., Saturday, May 23, on The College Green, during a ceremony installing him
as 17th president of the University. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Class of 1999, listens as she is presented with an honorary Doctor of Science as part of the 2021 College Commencement ceremony on May 2. The May 1 ceremony took place live and in-person, with social distancing and masks, under a tent on Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle. 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. The days forums begin at 9 and 11 a.m. and at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. Full details and schedules are included on Browns Commencement website. Look no further for complete news, photo, video and social media coverage of previous Commencement and Reunion Weekend festivities. In a sunny, spirited celebration, three Brown graduating seniors addressed Class of 2022 members, encouraging their fellow graduates to honor their roots while forging new paths ahead. This person is selected through an application and interview process conducted by a special committee that includes students, faculty, and staff. The University's ceremonial Van Wickle Gates open for only two reasons: when new students enter campus in the fall and when new graduates depart for the larger world beyond campus. Both Dyke and Johnson will receive honorary degrees during the commencement . The 2017 Commencement speaker selection will be announced to the campus community and the public during the 2016-17 academic year . Carolyn Greene, selected as this year's medical class speaker, will present
remarks titled "Hope, Humor and Humility: Shedding the Short, White Coat
Without Losing the Ideals." [3] Today some 1700 undergraduate degrees, and 5000 advanced degrees from the university's various graduate and professional schools, are conferred each Commence . They will address DePaul's approximately 6,500 graduates at the university's commencement ceremonies May 14 and June 10-11. U.S. Speaker of the House and honorary degree recipient Nancy Pelosi urged the Class of 2022 to bring a spirit of unity to whatever they choose to . Highlights of the ceremony also include presentation of the Horace Mann Medal, established in 2003 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School and awarded annually to a Brown graduate who has made significant contributions in their field, and the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Awards. By Olga Benacerraf and Jess Marrero Suarez. 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. She will do her residency in internal medicine at the
University of California-San Francisco. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the web. Because the Meeting House can accommodate only the graduating class, the service will be live-streamed on the web and simulcast for family and friends, who can watch it on the College Green. Class of 2022 Baccalaureate Service 2:30 p.m. | Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America About the ceremony: The All-University Commencement will comprise of speeches from Boston University President Robert A. Class of 2020 Ph.D. graduate Miroslava Nikolaeva Nikolova delivered her speech, Reflections on a Pandemic and the Strength of the Saguaro, at the Class of 2020 Graduate School Ceremony on Saturday, May 28, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. One of Brown's best-loved Reunion and Commencement traditions, Campus Dance brings people to Brown to dance the night away under a sky lit with over 600 paper lanterns on the College Green. The orators were chosen
from a pool of 58 applicants by a committee of faculty and students. Lyrics and composer's notes Notes. After delivering an honorary degree oration, reggae icon Shaggy puts his talent on full display, grabbing a mic and offering a medley of his hits, from Boombastic, to Angel to It Wasnt Me.. Orthopedic surgeon Leah Brown, a University alum and All-American for the Gym Dogs, will deliver the spring undergraduate commencement address May 12 in Sanford Stadium. The ceremony will also be live-streamed on the web. Student Speakers. Commencement Speaker: Diana Natalicio, Ph.D. President, University of Texas at El Paso. 129th Commencement, for the Class of 2020 held in-person in 2022. . Former Brown professor and dean of the College Maud S. Mandel accepts her honorary Doctor of Humane Letters as part of the 2021 College Commencement ceremony. 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 . Brown was the principal commencement speaker for the undergraduate student ceremony held Friday, Dec. 10 in the UNO Lakefront Arena. February 15, 2023 at 4:22 am EST. In the days leading up to their Commencement ceremonies, members of the Class of 2021 attended campus events preparing them for graduation day and celebrating their academic accomplishments at Brown. from Brown, will deliver the Baccalaureate address to the undergraduate Class of 2022 on Saturday. A Lawrence University alumna who paved an impressive 40-year career in theater, film, and television will return to campus on June 9 as the 2019 Commencement speaker. 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. Former President, Unigroup; Co-Chair, the Ferguson Commission. 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. Revisit Brown Universitys 253rd Commencement ceremonies for the College. Forums 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. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Continuing its long-standing tradition, Brown University
will offer an array of speakers - including theologian Margaret R. Miles, South
African university chancellor Mamphela Ramphele, and Dr. Henry J. Mankin -
during its 230th Commencement Weekend. Brown, Bullock announced as UGA Spring Commencement speakers. Class of 2021 graduates applaud a speaker during the morning College ceremony. Commencement at John Brown University is held every year in May and December and streamed online. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver a Commencement oration, and honorary and symbolic degrees will be awarded. Savannah Sellers | Spring 2019. Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, Doctor of Humane Letters. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the web. Brown University President Christina H. Paxson addressed graduates from the College, the Graduate School and the Warren Alpert Medical School at the University 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. Leah Brown will give the undergraduate address, and Charles S. Bullock will The University of Georgia has announced the commencement speakers for the undergraduate and graduate classes of spring 2023. In keeping with a Brown tradition that dates back more than two and a half centuries, seniors Kaitlan Bui, Alexandra Ali Martnez and Michelle Liu will address their fellow graduates during Commencement 2022. "Neither brains nor hard work can guarantee that you do," said
Manly. 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. Brown's commencement speaker policy has denied me the chance to be fully recognized alongside the peers with whom I have shared my undergraduate experience because I am a 0.5er, instead only allowing me to apply to speak at next year's Midyear Completion Celebration and the following Commencement. 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. . 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. News and Events Reunion events, Commencement forums capture, virtually, the spirit of community celebration, intellectual discovery. April 7, 2021, 2 p.m. Prairie View A&M University President Ruth J. Simmons, who previously served as president of both Brown University and Smith College, will deliver the keynote address at Princeton University's 2021 Baccalaureate ceremony. Location information by department is listed on the Commencement website. With an eye toward lives and careers that make an enduring and positive impact, 763 masters and Ph.D. graduates earned Brown degrees in a Saturday afternoon Commencement ceremony on the College Green. 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. Graduating seniors march back up College Hill to the College Green, where they join family members, friends and guests along with graduate and medical students for the University ceremony. Cheering crowds greeted alumni who earned their doctoral and masters degrees in 2020 as they passed through the Van Wickle Gates as part of a truly one-of-a-kind Commencement and Reunion Weekend. Lee Shallat Chemel, a 1965 graduate who first attended Milwaukee-Downer . Thank you, Chancellor for all the nice things you just said about me. Departmental Ceremonies 2:45 | Various locations Spalter was selected as the speaker by the Graduate Student Council. Commencement is the culmination of all your efforts to earn a graduate degree. 2011 Stephen Colbert (speaker at general commencement ceremony) Gloria Ladson-Billings (School of Education and Social Policy Convocation) Medical school graduates from the Class of 2022 as well as 12 graduates from the Class of 2020 were individually recognized and hooded by Dr. Allan Tunkel and Dr. Roxanne Vrees. UGA . And, of course, theres Campus Dance (tickets required). Acclaimed TV, theater director to return to Lawrence as Commencement speaker. In addition, Brown will honor the late telecommunications pioneer George H. Billings (1950-2021), a Class of 1972 graduate. The internet blew up when NYU announced Taylor Swift would be this year's commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree. Because
the Meeting House accommodates only members of the graduating class, the
orations will be simulcast to The College Green, where parents, friends and
guests of the University will gather. A Commencement and Reunion Weekend tradition for more than four decades, the forums include lectures, discussions and performances by faculty, alumni and guests who are nationally recognized authorities in their fields with plenty of opportunity for audience questions and comments. Congratulations, Class of 2022 and Class of 2020! Graduate students will process to Simmons Quad for their ceremony. Keynote Speech Video. In addition, several members of the
Brown community, including Brown's 17th President E. Gordon Gee, senior orators
Daniel Massey and Katherine Eckstein, faculty member Dr. Kevin Vigilante,
graduating medical student Carolyn Greene and graduating doctoral student
Charlotte Manly, will speak. For requests that are granted, credentials will be made available for pickup on the Brown campus in advance of the weekend. Since its founding in 1764, Brown has selected members of the graduating class to speak during its Commencement ceremonies. "She cares very much for the life of the mind.". Click the image for the full list. A Brown staff member sprays down seats between events, part of Browns efforts to keep participants in this years Commencement ceremonies safe and healthy. Surgeon General shares lessons both professional and personal, Open details for Brown to celebrate Commencement and Reunion Weekend with mix of in-person, virtual events, Open details for Brown to confer six honorary degrees at Commencement 2021, Open details for Senior orators will encourage graduates to dream big and build community, Open details for Graduate School speakers to emphasize community, connection at Commencement, In spirited celebration, Brown community commemorates Class of 2021s resilience, ability to improvise, Student speakers take center stage at Browns Commencement, Reunion events, Commencement forums capture, virtually, the spirit of community celebration, intellectual discovery, Brown faculty confers highest honor on public health, dance scholars and educators, 2021 Baccalaureate Speaker: Steven R. Jordan, 2021 Medical School Student Address: Scholars of the Human Condition, 2021 Medical School Faculty Address: Notes from the Floors, 2021 Masters Orator Sonya Brooks: Our Connection in Chaos, 2021 Ph.D. Orator Bardiya Akhbari: Bani Adam: One Essence and Soul, 2021 Senior Orator George Kubai: Dare to Dream, 2021 Senior Orator Siddhi Nadkarni: From Problems to Progress, President Paxson remarks to 2021 College graduates, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient Norman Atkins, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient Steven R. Jordan, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient David Lobell, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient Maud Mandel, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient Jessica Meir, 2021 Honorary Degree Recipient O. Rogeriee Thompson, Brown awards six honorary doctorates during Commencement, New Brown M.D.s convene to honor achievements, celebrate and reflect after exceptionally intense year, In socially distanced Graduate School ceremony, speakers call on peers to show up and do good work, Driven to purpose by passion, Class of 2021 celebrates the Baccalaureate, virtually, Brown to confer 2,505 degrees at its 253rd Commencement, PHOTOS: For soon-to-be graduates, pre-Commencement events cap their Brown student experiences, In address to Brown public health grads, U.S. This years festivities from Friday, May 27, through Sunday, May 29 arrive with a new twist: Not only will Brown celebrate its Class of 2022 graduates, the University will also welcome back to campus members of the Class of 2020, whose graduates missed their in-person Commencement experience due the COVID-19 pandemic and will return for their own dedicated ceremonies. After the chancellor confers all degrees, there will be a moment where graduates can . President Christina Paxson will greet the class, deliver remarks and confer bachelor degrees on the church grounds. Along with Commencement, Brown held Reunion events over the weekend, inviting nearly 30,000 alumni to come together for a weekend . Ramphele is the first black person and the first female to hold the
university's highest office. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations. During Commencement, Billings brother, John Billings, will accept a diploma in recognition of the honorary degree. Honorary degree recipients participating in Saturdays slate of Commencement Forums include physician and public health leader Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, Nobel Laureate and economist Guido Imbens, and technology scholar and educator Zeynep Tfeki. Professor Colin Harrington delivers his faculty address remotely during the May 1 medical school ceremony. Brown alumni Sydney Lo and Dhruv Singh will return to campus to deliver Commencement speeches to the Class of 2020 on Saturday, May 28, with a focus on the importance of community. Seniors Kaitlan Bui and Alexandra Ali Martinez delivered their speech, We Are the Bearers of Many Stories, at the University Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Among his activities, Mankin serves as a consultant to the National
Institutes of Health Clinical Center, as chairman of the Massachusetts General
Hospital Cancer Affairs Committee, and as associate editor of the Journal of
Orthopaedic Research. 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. All guests and family members are invited to watch the ceremony from the College Green, where the event will be simulcast, as space is limited inside the church. Alumni who received their doctoral and masters degrees in 2020 experienced Commencement and Reunion the way theyd long hoped to across multiple days, in-person and surrounded by loved ones on College Hill. 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. honorable harold brown, secretary of defense. Faculty applaud graduates as they carry out the Commencement tradition of leaving through the Van Wickles Gates following the afternoon ceremony. Brown alumna Jessica U. Meir, Class of 1999, accepts her honorary Doctor of Science as part of the 2021 College Commencement ceremony on May 2. The ceremony will mark the conclusion of the school's 150th anniversary year and celebrate the 150th graduating class. Paxson will preside over the ceremony, which will include student performances and more, and Brown alumni Sydney Lo and Dhruv Singh will deliver Commencement speeches. College Ceremony 12:15 p.m. | The First Baptist Church in America 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. 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. In addition to her iconic work in the dance world, Brown has in recent years branched into theater . The 860 candidates who were eligible to participate in the ceremonies . 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. While at Brown, Eckstein spent a semester at Tougaloo College in Jackson,
Miss., and a semester in the Urban Education program in New York. A graduate gives the thumbs up during the morning College Commencement ceremony, held on the College Green. Also at Brown, Eckstein tutored adults
studying to take the high school equivalency exam through a program at the
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