May brings Commencement exercises

Ramsey Holmes Merideth Thomson

The 9 a.m. ceremony on the Eastman Quadrangle is one of several events scheduled to celebrate Rochester's 151st Commencement season.

A total of 2,177 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees will be awarded to Rochester students at this year's ceremonies.

Commencement Weekend begins with the doctoral degree Commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at the Eastman Theatre.

The commencement ceremony for M.D. graduates of the School of Medicine and Dentistry will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 27, at the Eastman Theatre and features an address by Antonia Novello, commissioner of health for the State of New York. Novello also will receive an honorary doctor of science degree.

Commencement for the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will take place at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 10, at the Eastman Theatre. Michael C. Jensen, a former Simon faculty member and Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, will give the address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree.

University faculty receiving awards during this month's ceremonies include:

• Robert Holmes, professor of philosophy, the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Undergraduate Teaching;

• Anne Merideth, assistant professor of religion, the G. Graydon and Jane W. Curtis Award for Teaching by a nontenured member of the faculty;

• William Thomson, professor of economics, the University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

Alumni receiving awards include Galway Kinnell '49 (Mas), a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who currently is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. He will receive the Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal in recognition of his outstanding achievements and notable service to community, state, or nation.

Karen H. Brown '61, '72 (PhD), who is the acting under secretary for technology in Technology Administration at the Department of Commerce, will receive a Distinguished Scholar Award during the doctoral degree ceremony.

For more information on Commencement, visit the Web site www.rochester.edu/commencement.

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