Please join the Commencement Honorary Degree Recipients and the Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., as they come together to discuss the subject “Leadership for a Sustainable Global Society: Discovery, Innovation, and Citizenship.”
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 202nd Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:30 a.m.
The ceremony will be held on Harkness Field, on the Rensselaer campus in Troy, New York.
David Gergen, political analyst, editor, best-selling author, and Harvard professor, will deliver this year’s Commencement address.
Gergen also will receive an honorary degree at the ceremony, together with distinguished molecular biologist and president of Princeton University Shirley M. Tilghman and veteran Marine Corps astronaut and space shuttle pilot Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.). [More]
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