Commencement Speakers Range from a Science Guy to an Inaugural Poet

Bill Nye, scientist, inventor and executive director of The Planetary Society.

Janet Napoli­tano

, former sec­re­tary of home­land secu­rity and now pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­fornia System, will keynote the 112th commencement at Northeastern University on May 2 at Boston’s TD Garden.

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick will keynote commencement at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Friday, May 9 at 4:30 p.m. at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

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Kenneth R. Feinberg

, the D.C. lawyer famous for distributing funds to victims of the September 11 terror attacks and to victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing as administrator of the One Fund, will deliver the commencement address at Emmanuel College on May 10.

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First-term U.S. Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III will deliver Mount Ida College’s commencement address on Friday, May 16 at 11 a.m. on the college’s Lower Athletic Field.

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Boston lawyer and pro-life advocate Frances X. Hogan will address Assumption College’s 97th commencement on Saturday, May 17 at 10 a.m. on the H.L. Rocheleau Athletic Field.

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Designer Tory Burch will address Babson College’s undergraduate commencement on May 17 at 10 a.m. at the college. Bobby Sager, photographer and founder of the Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow, will address the graduate ceremony at 2 p.m.

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Bill Nye

the Science Guy, and Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will address graduates at UMass Lowell’s commencement on Saturday, May 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Tsongas Center.

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Geoffrey Canada

, president and chief executive officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York, will address Brandeis University’s 63rd commencement on Sunday, May 18 at 10:30 a.m. in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.

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Joseph Abboud

, a leader in American fashion design, will keynote Lasell College’s commencement on Sunday, May 18 at 11 a.m. on Lasell’s Newton, Mass. Taylor Field.

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Ron Shaich, founder and CEO of Panera Bread Co., will keynote Clark University’s 110th commencement on Sunday, May 18, beginning at noon on the Jefferson Academic Center Green.

 

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Poet Richard Blanco, who read as part of the ceremony to inaugurate President Barack Obama, will speak at the University of Rhode Island’s 128th undergraduate commencement on Sunday, May 18 at 12:20 p.m. on the Quadrangle.

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UMass Lowell Chancellor Martin Meehan, a former seven-term U.S. congressman, will deliver the commencement address at the Mount Wachusett Community College on Wednesday, May 21.

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