May 2008
schedule of ceremonies

    
         

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Honors Convocation - 11:00 a.m.

Graduate Degree Ceremony - 4:30 p.m.
All Master and Doctoral Degrees from all schools and colleges (except for School of Law and School of Medicine M.D. degrees)

Speaker: Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami.

Senior Mwambo Ceremony - 2:00 p.m.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Undergraduate Degree Ceremonies

8:30 a.m.

  • School of Business Administration
  • College of Engineering

Speaker: Robert E. Rubin, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Laws, acclaimed economic strategist, Director and Chair of the Executive Committee of Citigroup.

Sue Miller, receiving the Doctor of Humane Letters, philanthropist, President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Miller Family Foundation.

12:30 p.m.

  • School of Architecture
  • School of Communication
  • School of Education
  • Frost School of Music
  • School of Nursing and Health Studies

Speaker: Norman C. Francis, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Laws, President of Xavier University of Louisiana, longest tenured current leader of an American university.

5:00 p.m.

  • College of Arts and Sciences

Speaker: Angela Lansbury Shaw, receiving the Doctor of Humane Letters, Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress, winner of the 1997 Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.


Saturday, May 10, 2008

Miller School of Medicine Ceremony - 5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Thomas D. Pollard, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Science, pioneering researcher, Sterling Professor and Chair of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University.


Sunday, May 18, 2008

School of Law Ceremony - 2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Carolyn B. Lamm, University of Miami School of Law alumna, partner of White & Case, LLP.