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248th
Commencement
Click
here for the Commencement Invitation to the Penn community.
University
of Pennsylvania
Commencement Events 2004
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Baccalaureate
Ceremony
Sunday, May 16
Irvine Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Jaroslav
Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History
at Yale
Commencement
Monday, May
17
Franklin Field, 9 a.m.
Speaker: Bono
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Bono,
Co-Founder, DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa); Lead Singer,
U2 Doctor of Laws, honoris causa
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Elizabeth
Blackburn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry
and Biophysics, University
of California, San Francisco
Doctor of Science, honoris causa
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Lee
Friedlander
Photographer Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris
causa
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Jaroslav
Pelikan, Ph.D.
Sterling
Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. Visiting
Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication. Doctor of
Humane Letters, honoris causa
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Max
Roach
Musician,
Composer, Educator Doctor of Music, honoris causa
For
additional information on May 16-17 events:
Commencement
Website: www.upenn.edu/commencement
Commencement
Hotline: (215) 573-GRAD
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School
Ceremonies and Speakers
Annenberg
School for Communication
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Annenberg
School for Communication, Room 111
Reception: Annenberg
School for Communication Lobby, immediately following the
ceremony
Biomedical
Graduate Studies
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, noon, BRB II/III Auditorium and Lobby
College
of Arts and Sciences
Ceremony: Sunday,
May 16, 7-9 p.m., Franklin
Field
Speaker: Ron
Allen, C '79, G '79, NBC
News correspondent
Graduate
Division, School of Arts and Sciences
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 1 p.m., Hill
Square, 33rd and Walnut Street
Speaker: Samuel
H. Preston, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Reception: Hill
College House, immediately
following the ceremony
College
of General Studies
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, noon, Chinese
Rotunda, Penn Museum
Reception: Upper
Egyptian Gallery, Penn Museum,
immediately following the ceremony
School
of Dental Medicine
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 1 p.m., Irvine
Auditorium
Speaker: Dr.
Myron Allukian, Jr., Director of Oral Health, Boston
Public Health Commission
Reception: Robert
Schattner Center, 240 S. 40th Street, immediately following
the ceremony
Graduate
School of Education
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 2:30 p.m., First
District Plaza, 3801 Market Street
Speaker: Patricia
Graham, Charles Warren Research
Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard
University Graduate
School of Education
Preceded
by Reception: Lunch in Houston Hall, noon-2 p.m.
School
of Engineering and Applied Science
Doctoral
Ceremony: Sunday, May 16, 1 p.m., Zellerbach Theatre,
Annenberg Center
Speaker: Dr.
Kathleen R. McKeown, Professor
of Computer Science, Columbia
University*
Reception: Annenberg
Plaza, immediately
following the ceremony
Master's
Ceremony: Sunday, May 16, 4 p.m.*, Zellerbach
Theatre, Annenberg Center
Speaker: Dr.
Michael D. Zisman, Vice President for Strategy, IBM*
Reception: Annenberg
Plaza, immediately
following the ceremony
Undergraduate
Ceremony: Monday, May 17, 3 p.m.,
Franklin Field
Speaker: Jason
Bethala, SEAS '04, president of Engineering Deans' Advisory
Board
Reception: Monday,
May 17, immediately following
University Commencement ceremony,
Towne Lawn and Levine Hall
Fels
Center of Government
Ceremony
and Reception: Sunday, May 16, 5 p.m., Fels
Center of Government, 3814 Walnut Street
Speaker: Estelle
Richman, Pennsylvania Secretary
of Public Welfare
Law
School
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 3 p.m., Academy
of Music, Broad and Locust Streets
Speaker: The
Honorable Louis Pollak, Judge of the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and former
dean
of the law schools at Penn and Yale University
Honorary
Fellow: Julie Su, Litigation Director of the Asian
Pacific American Legal Center
Reception: Sunday,
May 16, 2:30 p.m., Law
School Courtyard
School
of Design
Luncheon: Monday,
May 17, noon, Meyerson
Hall Terrace
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 1 p.m., Furness
Plaza
Speaker: Richard
M. Rosan, MArch '67, president,
Urban Land Institute
School
of Medicine
Ceremony: Sunday,
May 16, 10 a.m., Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing
Arts
Speaker: Dr.
Henry W. Foster, Jr., Professor Emeritus
and former Dean, School of Medicine, Meharry
Medical College and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology,
Vanderbilt
University
Reception: Park
Hyatt at the Bellevue Hotel, immediately
following the ceremony
School
of Nursing
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 3 p.m., Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing
Arts
Speaker: Dr.
Patricia Grady, Director, National
Institute of Nursing Research
*Reception: noon,
Nursing Education Building Lower Lobby
School
of Social Work
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 2 p.m., Harrison
Auditorium, Penn Museum
Speaker: Dr.
Bernard LaFayette, president, American
Baptist College of the American Baptist Theological
Seminary, Nashville, longtime
leader in the Civil Rights movement
Reception: Chinese
Rotunda, Penn Museum, immediately
following ceremony
School
of Veterinary Medicine
Ceremony: Monday,
May 17, 2:30 p.m., Zellerbach
Theatre, Annenberg Center
Speaker: Dr. Marguerite
Pappaioanou, Associate Director for Science and Policy,
Office of Global Health, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
Reception: Annenberg
Plaza, immediately
following ceremony
Wharton
Undergraduate Division and Wharton
Evening Division
Ceremony: Sunday,
May 16, 9 a.m., Franklin
Field
Speaker: Amal
Devani, C '04, W '04, Hunstman Program in International
Studies and Business
Wharton
Graduate Division
Ceremony: Sunday,
May 16, 1 p.m., Franklin
Field
Speaker: Klaus
Zumwinkle, Chair, Deutsche Post
Reception: John
M. Huntsman Hall, immediately
following the ceremony
Wharton
Doctoral Division
Sunday,
May 16, The Colloquium, 8th floor,Jon
M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
Cocktails, 5:30
p.m.; Degree Ceremony, 6:30 p.m.; Dinner, 7
p.m.
* Indicates that
information has been updated or changed. Last updated
5/11/04.
Almanac, Vol. 50, No.
32,
May 4, 2004
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