More than 2,900 students will receive degrees May 17 (Sunday) at Notre Dame鈥檚 164th University Commencement Ceremony, which will be held at 2 p.m. in the Joyce Center on campus.
will be the principal speaker and the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree. the 1984 recipient of the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame鈥檚 highest honor and the most prestigious award given to American Catholics, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address in the spirit of the award. His speech will be in lieu of awarding the medal this year.
, a biological sciences major from St. Joseph, Mich., will deliver the valedictory address.
Degrees will be conferred on 2,001 undergraduates, 389 master鈥檚 degree students in the Mendoza College of Business, and 213 Notre Dame Law 91视频 students.
An additional 361 students will receive master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees at the , which will be held Saturday (May 16) at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Center. Don Michael Randel, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be the principal speaker and will receive an honorary degree at the next day鈥檚 ceremony.
In addition to President Obama and Randel, are: Steven Beering, president emeritus of Purdue University; Myles Brand, president of the NCAA and former president of Indiana University and the University of Oregon; Fritz L. Duda, a member of Notre Dame鈥檚 Board of Trustees and chief executive officer of Genus Holdings Ltd.; Patrick Finneran, vice president of program management and business excellence for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems; Cindy Parseghian, co-founder of the
Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation; and Randall T. Shepard, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.