Commencements

May 23, 2005

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Undergraduate Commencement
GRADUATES: 4,000
DEGREES: bachelor's
SPEAKERS: Chancellor John V. Lombardi; Jack M. Wilson, president of UMass
HONORARY DEGREES: Douglas Berthiaume, CEO of Waters Corporation of Milford; Heriberto Flores, former executive director of the New England Farm Workers Council

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
GRADUATES: 1,471
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's
SPEAKER: Brian Helgeland, screenwriter
HONORARY DEGREES: Helgeland; Luis Pedroso, businessman; Diane Middlebrook, biographer

Framingham State, Framingham
GRADUATES: 1,198
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's
SPEAKER: Shonda Schilling, founder of the SHADE Foundation
HONORARY DEGREES: Schilling; Dr. Robert Grant, retiring faculty member

Amherst College, Amherst
GRADUATES: 409
DEGREES: bachelor's
SPEAKER: Anthony W. Marx, Amherst president
HONORARY DEGREES: Kazuo Asakai, Japanese ambassador to the European Union; Shigeru Ban, architect; Natalie Zemon Davis, historian and author; Paul E. Farmer, physician and health activist; Senator John Glenn, former astronaut; Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist; Robert Stone, novelist; William Julius Wilson, sociologist

Boston University, Boston
GRADUATES: 5,436
DEGREES: associate's, bachelor's, master's, doctorates, PhD
SPEAKER: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan president
HONORARY DEGREES: Karzai; Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, theoretical physicist; Senator John F. Kerry; former EPA administrator Christy Todd Whitman; David Aronson, artist; John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox; Edward Zander, chairman and CEO of Motorola

Brandeis University, Waltham
GRADUATES: 998
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's, doctorates
SPEAKER: Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
HONORARY DEGREES: Marshall; NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; Ha Jin, author; Roderick Mackinnon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry; Representative Edward J. Markey; Lily Safra, philanthropist

Clark University, Worcester
GRADUATES: 803
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's, doctorates
SPEAKER: David S. Broder, journalist
HONORARY DEGREES: Broder; Mary Walsh, educator and children's advocate; Sam Bass Warner, professor; E. O. Wilson, professor

Merrimack College, North Andover
GRADUATES: 508
DEGREES: associate's, bachelor's, master's
SPEAKER: Oral Lee Brown, philanthropist; Reverend Robert F. Prevost, O.S.A.
HONORARY DEGREES: Brown, Prevost

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
GRADUATES: 557
SPEAKER: Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio
HONORARY DEGREES: Totenberg; Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College;
Barbara Wilson, program manager for the Center for Space Microelectronics Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; AIDS activist Krisana Kraisintu

New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
GRADUATES: 245
DEGREES: bachelor's of music, master's of music, doctorate of music, diploma, artist diploma
SPEAKER: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
HONORARY DEGREES: Gardiner; Maynard Solomon, Beethoven scholar; George Russell, jazz musician; Bernard Greenhouse, cellist

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
GRADUATES: 195
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's
SPEAKER: Vito Acconci, artist and architect
HONORARY DEGREES: None

Stonehill College, Easton
GRADUATES: 600
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's
SPEAKER: the Rev. Edward (Monk) A. Malloy Jr., president of University of Notre Dame
HONORARY DEGREES: Malloy; Anne M. Finucane, president, northeast, for Bank of America; Peter Meade, executive vice president for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Donald E. Rodman, president and director of the Rodman Auto Group

Suffolk University, Boston
GRADUATES: 1,117
DEGREES: associate's, bachelor's, master's, doctorates
SPEAKER: Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico
HONORARY DEGREES: Richardson; Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi; Jackie Jenkins-Scott, Wheelock College president; Douglas W. Nelson, president of The Annie E. Casey Foundation; P. Leo Corcoran, partner, John M. Corcoran & Company

Law School Commencement
GRADUATES: 460
DEGREES: juris doctorates, master of laws
SPEAKER: Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware
HONORARY DEGREES: Biden; Michael S. Greco, president-elect of the American Bar Association; Stuart Kwoh, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California; Regina L. Quinlan, associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court

Tufts University, Medford
GRADUATES: 2,163
DEGREES: bachelor's, master's, doctorates
SPEAKER: Kostas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
HONORARY DEGREES: Karamanlis; William Hurt, actor; Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima; James O. Freedman, former Dartmouth College president; Ann M. Graybiel, National Medal of Science winner