For the 305th year, Yale will send its newest graduates out into the world following a Commencement weekend that mixes pomp and circumstance with a variety of other programs.
The 2006 Commencement will take place Saturday-Monday, May 20-22.
The formal festivities will begin with the Baccalaureate service for Yale College seniors and their families in Woolsey Hall, northwest corner of Grove and College streets. The ceremony -- which features an address by President Richard C. Levin and by Yale College Dean Peter Salovey -- will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday.
Also on Saturday, there will be a reception for graduating students and their families 4-6 p.m. at the President's House, 43 Hillhouse Ave. (or University Commons, if it rains).
Class Day exercises for graduating Yale College seniors will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday on Old Campus. The featured speaker will be CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper '89 B.A. Class Day traditions also include planting the Class Ivy, reciting the Ivy Ode, awarding teaching prizes to faculty members and academic prizes to students, and singing Yale's alma mater, "Bright College Years," while waving a white handkerchief. The event will be broadcast live on local access cable channel 26.
University Commencement will begin at 10 a.m. when Yale College seniors process around the New Haven Green and onto Old Campus. The formal ceremony -- which includes the presentation of honorary degrees to noted individuals and the awarding of degrees to students representing Yale's undergraduate, graduate and professional schools -- will begin at 10:30 a.m. This event will also be broadcast live on local access cable channel 26.
Individual degree-granting ceremonies will follow in the individual residential colleges for Yale College seniors and at special ceremonies for Yale's graduate and professional students.
For information about those ceremonies and about the other activities -- including concerts, dramas and social events -- that weekend, visit www.yale.edu/commencement/html/schedule.html.
T H I S
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
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Divinity Dean reappointed to second term
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President Levin honored for increasing town-gown partnerships
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
David Bromwich appointed Sterling Professor of English
David Louis Quint named Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature
Brown-Dean is appointed Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor
Four individuals will bring their expertise . . . to SOM
Two noted violinists . . . join the faculty of the School of Music
Three residential college masters named to second term
Laura Cruickshank named to post of University planner
Exhibit features English silver pieces once owned by tsars
Exhibits look back at 40 years of chiming bells and more
Major renovation effort begins at Cross Campus Librar
MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS
Study confirms usefulness of naltrexone . . .
Treatment preferences for end-of-life care change with time . . .
Research shows medication may delay onset of psychosis
Claus will study genetics of breast cancer with Komen Foundation grant
Eight graduating seniors are bound for China as teaching fellows
IN MEMORIAM
Albert J. Reiss Jr., work led to reforms in policing
Dr. Norman Siegel, a world-renowned specialist on kidney disease . . .
Jaroslav Pelikan, noted scholar of Christianity, dies
Memorial service for William Sloan Coffin to be held May 27
Yale's nurse-midwives celebrate 50 years of community care
Talk will focus on life extension and human right
'Keepers of the Dream' to look at advancing urban education
Sociologist Adams honored for book on 'The Familial State'
Association honors Yale-affiliated scientists and engineers . . .
Journal of Industrial Ecology marks two milestones . . .
Grant will fund research on how human speech is shaped
'Trouble in Tahiti' to be performed during School of Music alumni weekend
Campaign invites community to 'Plant a Row for the Hungry'
Campus Notes
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