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Media Advisory
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
901 South Bond Street, Suite 540
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920
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May 2, 2007 |
To: |
Reporters, Editors, Assignment Desks |
From: |
Dennis O'Shea,
dro@jhu.edu, and
Amy Lunday,
amylunday@jhu.edu
(443) 287-9960 |
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Johns Hopkins University Commencement
— May 17
Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick, legendary
musician and producer Quincy Jones, British ambassador to
the United States among speakers |
Baltimore Ravens Coach Brian Billick will address seniors
graduating from The Johns Hopkins University's schools of
Arts and Sciences and Engineering at their diploma ceremony
at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, May 17.
The ceremony will take place at Homewood Field, the stadium
on the northern end of the university's Homewood campus at
3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. There will be a press
section for working print and broadcast reporters and
photographers on the playing surface of Homewood Field, at
stage right [audience left]. Identification is required;
prior notification of intention to cover the ceremony is
preferred. Limited press parking will be available; please
notify us in advance if you need parking. See above for
contact information.
Earlier on May 17, university president William R. Brody
will speak at the university-wide commencement ceremony.
This ceremony will begin at 9:15 a.m. at Homewood Field.
Honorary degrees will be awarded at that event to R.
Champlin Sheridan Jr., a 1952 graduate and trustee emeritus
of the university, and M. Roy Schwarz, a physician,
educator and president of the China Medical Board of New
York.
Noteworthy speakers at other Johns Hopkins commencement-
related events — at various times and locations from
Wednesday, May 16 through Friday, May 18 — include
Sir David Manning, British ambassador to the United States,
who will speak to graduates of the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies; legendary musician and
producer Quincy Jones, who will speak to graduates of the
Peabody Conservatory; and Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, former
president of the Institute for Genomic Research in
Rockville, Md., and new director of the Institute of Genome
Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine,
who will speak to the master's degree graduates of the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The ceremonies mark
the end of the university's 131st academic year. Details on
the university's various ceremonies are listed below.
About the Graduating Class
The total number of earned degrees, certificates and
diplomas awarded is expected to be about 6,348, as follows:
1,512 bachelor degrees (including 1,049 seniors graduating
from the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering at
the Homewood campus); 3,863 master's degrees, 531 doctoral
degrees (122 of which are medical degrees); and 442
certificates and diplomas.
About the Ceremonies
The university as a whole and its nine academic divisions
will hold the following commencement events:
University-wide Commencement Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 9:15 a.m. to approximately noon,
Homewood Field, Homewood campus.
Speaker: William R. Brody, president, The Johns
Hopkins University. During this ceremony, all university
degrees are conferred by the university president. The only
graduates who receive their diplomas at this time, however,
are doctoral students. The ceremony also recognizes new
members of the Society of Scholars. At this time, two
honorary degrees of doctor of humane letters also will be
awarded. [See above for details on honorary degree
recipients].
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Arts and Sciences/Engineering Undergraduate Diploma
Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 1:45 p.m., Homewood Field, Homewood
campus.
Speaker: Baltimore Ravens Coach Brian Billick, who
led the team to a Super Bowl championship in 2000. During
this ceremony, an anticipated 1,049 seniors from the
schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, who will
officially have graduated when degrees were conferred in
the morning ceremony, cross the stage to shake hands with
the president. Afterwards, they receive their diplomas.
Billick was invited by the senior class. A bio of Billick
is available
here.
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Bloomberg School of Public Health Convocation
Ceremony
Wednesday, May 16, 2 p.m., Meyerhoff Symphony Hall,
Cathedral and Preston Streets.
Speaker: John M. Barry, author and distinguished
visiting scholar at the Center for Bioenvironmental
Research of Tulane and Xavier universities. He is the
author of The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of
Washington, The Transformed Cell and Rising Tide:
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed
America, which was named a "notable book of the year"
by The New York Times and "best nonfiction of the year" by
The Los Angeles Times. A bio of Barry is available
online
here.
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G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering Graduate
Ceremony
Wednesday, May 16, 7 p.m. Homewood Field, Homewood
campus.
Speaker: Frannie A. Leautier, managing partner, The
Fezembat Group in Castelnau de Montmiral, France. She
started the Fezembat Group, which helps clients understand
and manage risks, particularly in emerging markets, after a
15-year tenure at the World Bank, where she held various
positions, including vice president of the World Bank
Institute. Leautier's passion for development and her
commitment to the power of knowledge and learning began
early in her youth in Tanzania and have been the hallmarks
of her work.
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The School of Medicine Diploma Award Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 2:30 p.m., Meyerhoff Symphony Hall,
Cathedral and Preston Streets.
Speaker: Atul Gawande, assistant professor in the
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School
of Public Health. His research focuses on problems at the
intersection of surgery and public health, with emphasis on
error in surgery, establishing its frequency and
seriousness and revealing underlying mechanisms. He also
writes the "Notes of a Surgeon" column for the New
England Journal of Medicine and has been a staff writer
for the New Yorker magazine since 1998. Gawande's
bio is online
here.
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Diploma Award Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 3 p.m., Constitution Hall, 18th and D
Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Speaker: Sir David Manning, British ambassador to
the United States and 1972 SAIS Bologna Center graduate.
His resume is online
here.
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School of Nursing Diploma and Award Ceremony
Wednesday, May 16, 9 a.m., the Francis Merrick
Performing Arts Center (Hippodrome) 12 N. Eutaw
Street.
Speaker: Rear Admiral Carol A. Romano, chief nurse
officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. Romano provides
leadership and coordination of Public Health Service
nursing affairs for the Office of the Surgeon General. She
is a pioneer in the field of nursing informatics, having
been involved in designing and implementing one of the
first computerized medical information systems in 1976. She
was a co-architect of the world's first graduate curriculum
in nursing informatics at the University of Maryland, where
she earned her doctoral degree in 1993. Her bio is online
here.
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The Carey Business School and the School of Education
Undergraduate and Graduate Diploma Award Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 7:30 p.m. Homewood Field, Homewood
campus.
Speaker: Stanley C. Gabor, dean emeritus of the
former School of Professional Studies in Business and
Education, which in January became two separate schools
— the Carey Business School and the School of
Education. [Note: This will be the last commencement
ceremony shared between the two schools.] Gabor became dean
in 1982 after spending 20 years at New York University.
Under his leadership, the School of Professional Studies
grew to become one of the largest at Johns Hopkins, serving
more than 4,500 students. He led the implementation of the
Leadership Development Program for Minority Managers, the
Business of Medicine Program, and the Public Safety
Executive Leadership Program, and is credited with
development of the university's Downtown Center. In
addition, Gabor has been consultant to universities
including Harvard, Columbia, Rice, Penn and Virginia. Gabor
holds advanced degrees in history and law from New York
University. He retired as dean in 1999.
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The Peabody Conservatory Diploma Award Ceremony
Thursday, May 17, 7:30 p.m., Friedberg Hall, Peabody
Institute, 1 E. Mount Vernon Place.
Speaker: Quincy Jones, the most Grammy-nominated
artist of all-time with 79 nominations (he has won 27).
Jones has produced both the best-selling album of all-time
(Michael Jackson's Thriller) and the best-selling
single of all-time (We Are the World), scored 34
major motion pictures, and in 2001, he added the title
"best-selling author" to his list of accomplishments when
his autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy
Jones entered the New York Times, Los Angeles
Times and Wall Street Journal best-sellers
lists. A bio for Jones is online here.
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Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Master's
Diploma Award Ceremony
Friday, May 18, 10 a.m., Homewood Field, Homewood
campus.
Speaker: Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, former president
of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md.,
and newly appointed director of the University of Maryland
School of Medicine Institute of Genome Sciences. Leader of
the teams that sequenced the genomes of several microbial
organisms, Fraser has helped initiate the era of
comparative genomics. Her research interests include whole
genome sequence analysis of microbial genomes, and the use
of genomic-based approaches to elucidate differences in
gene expression. Information on Fraser-Liggett is available
at here.
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