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Boston University’s 150th Commencement Ceremony 2023
Held on Sunday, May 21, Boston University’s 150th commencement ceremony was a day of joy, reflection, and celebration for the Class of 2023. David Zaslav (LAW’85), president and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. Discovery, delivered the [...]Commencement Address and received an honorary degree. Zaslav’s presence drew protests from students as well as from members of the Writers Guild of America. Others who received honorary degrees included Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Pamela Wood Avedisian, philanthropist and accomplished pianist; Stephen R. Karp, prominent real estate developer, Boston University Trustee Emeritus and alumnus; and Drew Weissman, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Edward Avedisian, alumnus, philanthropist, and career clarinetist, whose honorary degree was conferred in December but was cited at the ceremony.
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Boston University Commencement 2022
The 149th All-University Commencement Exercises honored graduates from September 2021, January 2022, May 2022, and August 2022. Robert Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and associate editor of The Washington Post, delivered [...]the Commencement Address and received an honorary degree. Others who received honorary degrees were Marylou Sudders, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services and BU alumna, Gay J. McDougall, international human rights advocate, and Richard Shipley, president of the Shipley Foundation, BU Trustee Emeritus and alumnus.
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Boston University School of Medicine Convocation 2022
Nahid Bhadelia, a MED associate professor of medicine, infectious diseases, addressed graduates at the Boston University School of Medicine Convocation, Thursday, May 19, 2022.
Read full coverage of her 2022 convocation speech on BU Today: [...]/articles/2022/busm-class-of-2022/
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Bob Woodward (Hon.22): 2022 BU Commencement Speaker
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bob Woodward (Hon.’22) addressed Boston University’s Class of 2022 at the 149th All-University Commencement on Sunday, May 22.
Read full coverage of the 2022 Commencement service on BU Today: [...]/articles/2022/bu-commencement-2022/
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Speaker Marylou Sudders: 2022 Baccalaureate Address
Marylou Sudders (CAS’76, SSW’78), Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services, touted BU’s role in the state’s pandemic response at Boston University’s Baccalaureate Service, Sunday, May 22, 2022.
Read full coverage of the 2022 [...]Baccalaureate service on BU Today: /articles/2022/baccalaureate-speaker-marylou-sudders-reflects-on-pandemics-lessons/
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Victor J. Dzau: BU Class of 2020 Commencement Speaker
Nearly a year and a half after receiving their diplomas, Boston University’s Class of 2020 finally donned their scarlet caps and gowns and were honored for their four years of work and studying—the COVID-postponed 147th Commencement was held on [...]Nickerson Field Sunday afternoon.
“COVID robbed you of a traditional senior year,” speaker Victor J. Dzau (Hon.’20), president of the National Academy of Medicine, said in his Commencement address to the 1,818 Class of 2020 graduates who returned to campus for the long-awaited ceremony. They traveled from 46 states and represented 61 countries. “You have already demonstrated incredible resilience and fortitude,” Dzau said. “You have prevailed and are here today with each other.”
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Yolanda Kakabadse: Class of 2020 Boston University Baccalaureate Address
“Tonight, we will have 800 million people [worldwide] who will go to sleep without food,” Yolanda Kakabadse, former president of the World Wildlife Fund International (WWF), told graduates of the Class of 2020 at Sunday’s pandemic-delayed [...]Baccalaureate service at Marsh Chapel. And how is the world reacting? “Forty percent of the food we produce worldwide is lost or wasted,” she said.
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Boston University Commencement 2021 Time-lapse
Watch the setup, celebration, and breakdown of Boston University's historic 148th Commencement for the Class of 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic and the need for social distancing, there were two separate ceremonies, one for advanced degree [...]graduates in the morning, one for graduating seniors in the afternoon. Among many distinguished speakers, Noubar Afeyan, the cofounder and chairman of Moderna, Inc., addressed the members of the Class of 2021 gathered on Nickerson Field for the advanced degree ceremony, and US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) delivered the Commencement speech to the graduating seniors on the same field a few hours later. Time-lapse footage, provided by BU Productions, was recorded from the Nickerson Field press box.
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Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21): 2021 BU Commencement Student Speaker
Student speaker Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21) mixed humorous glimpses of campus life with a list of social injustices that have dominated the headlines of the past four years in her address to the Class of 2021 at Boston University's 148th [...]Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021.
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