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. He plans to return there after graduation to study the University's role in the liberation movement. Note: This list will be updated throughout the commencement season. In order to accommodate graduates, families and friends who wish to take photographs, the Van Wickle Gates will remain open throughout the day. Elon Collins '23.5 originally learned that she was nominated to speak in early December through an email from the University. 1972 - Barbara Tuchman. Sunday, May 25, 2014. 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 ceremony will be live-streamed on the web. Keynote Speech Video. Many departments also welcome graduate students. About the ceremony: The All-University Commencement will comprise of speeches from Boston University President Robert A. View details and watch the ceremony on the Commencement website. Graduates and attendees can also download the BrownU mobile app to find information on the go during Commencement Weekend, including events, campus maps, dining and parking options, the location of water stations and restrooms, and more. Congratulations, Class of 2021! Telling stories about her . After the chancellor confers all degrees, there will be a moment where graduates can . Commencement is an important milestone for all Brown students the culmination of their educational journey as undergraduates, graduate or medical students. Members of the undergraduate Class of 2020 will assemble at the First Baptist Church in America for a unique ceremony complete with time-honored traditions of Commencement. Archive. 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 . This years Baccalaureate address will be delivered by Dr. Seth Berkley, a physician and public health leader who earned his bachelors degree and M.D. The 2017 Commencement speaker selection will be announced to the campus community and the public during the 2016-17 academic year . 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 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. Check back soon for more information about the weekends activities. Students present at Commencement call and text loved ones, who watch from afar because of the pandemic. 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. 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. Class of 2022 graduates gather on the Main Green for the University Ceremony. 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. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Utah in 1968 and a law degree and doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, respectively. 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. In the annual procession, graduates pass through the Van Wickle Gates to mark the end of their academic journey at Brown, and then to their respective ceremonies; Brown alumni from across many generations join in the fun, welcoming new graduates. Previous releases of YAF's Commencement Speaker Survey found dozens of commencement addresses delivered by members of the Obama administration, including 15 in 2015 and 11 in 2016. 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. Speakers. Pressley will deliver Boston University's 148th Commencement Address Sunday to the class of 2021. 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. The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. and is open to the public. In addresses at Brown's Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 29, student speakers entreated their peers to make a positive impact using lessons they had learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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. 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. Dr. Seth Berkley, a physician and public health leader who earned his bachelors degree and M.D. Young America's Foundation survey on commencement speakers found that zero conservatives were invited to the top 45 universities. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the web. Warren Alpert Medical School Dean Jack A. Elias presides over the 2021 Commencement ceremony. Graduates leave through the Van Wickle Gates following the afternoon ceremony on May 1. Before moving to Berkeley in 1996, Miles was Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at Harvard Divinity School, the first woman to hold a full professorship on that faculty. 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 do, saying they are graduating into a country deeply divided socially, politically and culturally. This years graduating class of 148 will continue their training at residency programs across the country. 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. 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. Savannah Seller's 2019 Commencement Speech was abbreviated due to inclement weather, below are her remarks as prepared. One of Browns best-loved traditions, the event is expected to bring more than 15,000 people to dance the night away under a sky lit with paper lanterns. Leah Brown, an orthopedic surgeon, University of Georgia alumna and All-American for the GymDogs, will deliver the spring undergraduate Commencement address at the University of Georgia on Friday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Sanford Stadium. This year's group of honorary degree . Commencement Speaker: Diana Natalicio, Ph.D. President, University of Texas at El Paso. For the full list of performers, please see our page of thanks and acknowledgments. Lobell is an agricultural ecologist and environmental scientist and a professor at Stanford University. Cari Hampton celebrates after the Warren Alpert Medical School Commencement ceremony. May 26-28, 2023. The University's unjust refusal to accept . Jean-Pierre Changeux, Doctor of Science. He remembers when his parents took him as a 10-year-old on a march in Queens to protest the death of a black man who was chased into traffic by a group of whites. Warren Alpert Medical School graduates recite the Physicians Oath during their Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 1. Diary Of A Pandemic Year grew from a seed planted by Fred Harris and Gayle Gallagher; to compose and present a piece of music at MIT's 2021 Commencement that reflected the unique challenges of the past year. Jiuyang Bai, who will earn his Ph.D. in cognitive science, will deliver the student address. In addresses at Browns Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 29, student speakers entreated their peers to make a positive impact using lessons they had learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual neuroscience trivia competition hosted at Brown invites Rhode Island students to explore the wonders of the brain to inspire the next generation of scientists and researchers. Commencement 2022 Procession 9:30 a.m. | The Van Wickle Gates 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. In his Commencement address for the medical school, Class of 2021 member Jason Tsichlis urged his fellow graduates to embrace their roles as scholars of the human condition. Brown University alumnus Steven R. Jordan, Class of 1982, accepts his honorary Doctor of Humane Letters as part of the 2021 College Commencement ceremony on May 2. College Ceremony 12:15 p.m. | The First Baptist Church in America All other recipients will receive their degrees during the Class of 2022 University Ceremony on Sunday. Class of 2020 graduate Sydney Lo delivered her speech, Opening Our Hearts, at the Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 28, 2022, as part of Browns 254th Commencement. Separate departmental ceremonies for each academic department follow the main ceremony and provide a more intimate atmosphere for families and College graduates. Class of 2021 graduate George Kubai, a biomedical engineering concentrator, delivers a speech titled Dare To Dream., Class of 2021 graduate Siddhi Nadkarni, a health and human biology concentrator, addresses her class in a speech titled From Problems to Progress.. Graduate students celebrate their 2021 Commencement safely by processing through Browns Van Wickle Gates with masks on. 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. Dr. Seth Berkley, a physician and public health leader who earned his bachelors degree and M.D. . The latter program allowed her to teach third-grade in a public school while taking courses at night at a local college. 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. Mary M. McKay, the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School, for the Brown School ceremony at 6:30 p.m. 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." Class of 2021 graduates Maria Guerrero Martinez, Carlyn Chrabaszcz, Greyson Gerhard-Young, Kiley Kellum and Garret Kern carry their class banner during the afternoon ceremony. The 860 candidates who were eligible to participate in the ceremonies . Atkins, a nationally recognized education innovator, leads the nonprofit Together Education. Massey's trip will be funded by Brown's prestigious Arnold Fellowship, which is awarded to students interested in independent learning experiences. Arkansas' top-ranked regional university (U.S. News Best Colleges 2019), JBU enrolls more than 2,100 students from 38 . Fred and Gayle had specific ideas about the architecture and tone . When the list is expanded to the top 100 colleges as ranked by . from Brown, delivered the Baccalaureate address to the undergraduate Class of 2022. In addition, Brown will honor the late telecommunications pioneer George H. Billings (1950-2021), a Class of 1972 graduate. A graduate gives the thumbs up during the morning College Commencement ceremony, held on the College Green. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations. 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. Dr. Kevin C. Vigilante, clinical associate professor of medicine, will deliver the faculty address titled "Medicine, Politics and the Good Life." John Padberg, S.J. Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, Doctor of Humane Letters. Departmental Ceremonies 2:45 | Various locations The interested student must write an essay about why they wish to speak . On the day of his death, Paxson conferred upon him a Doctor of Humane Letters and presented him a doctoral hood. John Krasinski, who graduated from Brown University in 2001, returned to Rhode Island as the baccalaureate speaker during the school's commencement and reunion weekend in 2019. 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. Along with Commencement, Brown held Reunion events over the weekend, inviting nearly 30,000 alumni to come together for a weekend . 1965 - Adlai Stevenson. Pelosi is among . Media credentials will be reserved exclusively for journalists working on assignment for credentialed professional news organizations. 1967 - John W. Gardner. Fauci, Shirver, and Maria M. Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, will also all be awarded . Anthony Fauci and Kizzmekia Corbett (delivered virtually) 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. Also at Brown, Eckstein tutored adults studying to take the high school equivalency exam through a program at the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service. The procession begins at 9:45 a.m. at the Van Wickle Gates. One of Browns best-loved traditions, Campus Dance brought more than 15,000 people to dance the night away on Friday under a sky lit with paper lanterns. Congratulations, Class of 2022 and Class of 2020! Lee Shallat Chemel '65. At Browns medical school Commencement ceremony, the 119 graduates in the Warren Alpert Medical Schools Class of 2021 marked four years of intense academic and clinical training in joyous, jubilant solidarity. Space is limited and the University may limit the total number of credentials awarded. 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. Honorary degree highlights will include a Commencement oration delivered by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi; a Baccalaureate address by . "Neither brains nor hard work can guarantee that you do," said Manly. Since 1776, all but three Brown University Commencements have been held at the Meeting House. The day's forums begin at 9 and 11 a.m. and at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. Full details and . Revisit Brown Universitys 253rd Commencement ceremonies for the Warren Alpert Medical School and the Graduate School. Commencement will be held Saturday, May 6, at 10 a.m. in Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University. Laurene Powell Jobs will be the 2021 commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania. 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. In keeping with a Brown tradition of elevating student voices at Commencement, seniors George Kubai and Siddhi Nadkarni will encourage their classmates to strengthen communities and remove barriers. 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. Mandel is the 18th president of Williams College. Thank you, Chancellor for all the nice things you just said about me. University Ceremony 1:15 p.m. | The College Green delivers the student address to graduates at the 2021 Warren Alpert Medical School Commencement ceremony, part of Browns 253rd Commencement. Manly will discuss the reasons people do and do not finish their dissertations. The Class of 2022 celebrated the Baccalaureate with joyful performances, reflective remarks and prayers from faith traditions across the globe holding space for both celebration and sorrow. Named June 27, 1997, as president-elect of Brown, Gee is a well-known national advocate for higher education. Please email [emailprotected] and include the professional news organizations name along with the journalists name, telephone number and email address. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver a commencement oration and receive an honorary doctorate degree during Brown University's commencement ceremonies later this month. from Brown, will deliver the Baccalaureate address to the undergraduate Class of 2022 on Saturday. from Brown, who will receive an honorary degree on Sunday. The evening joins together graduating seniors and their families, alumni of all ages and Brown faculty and staff. The ceremonies will also be streamed live and graduates unable to attend in person will be recognized online on the commencement website. Faculty applaud graduates as they carry out the Commencement tradition of leaving through the Van Wickles Gates following the afternoon ceremony. 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