Sentences with phrase «universities commencement»

In his Harvard University commencement speech earlier this year, Zuckerberg expressed similar sentiments.

«An exceptionally short - lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless... By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew,» Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech.

In his oft - quoted 2005 Stanford University commencement speech, Jobs said that this time away from Apple was actually beneficial.

-- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford University commencement speech

The second instance is scheduled to occur on May 17, 2009 when the University of Notre Dame will salute the nation's leading abortion advocate, with an honorarydoctor of laws degree at the 164th university commencement ceremony.

CNN: Romney to deliver Liberty University commencement speech Mitt Romney will deliver the commencement address at the evangelical Christian university led by Jerry Falwell, Jr., Liberty University said in a Thursday post to their website.

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-- Tulane University Commencement, 2009

Chadwick Boseman gives a Wakanda salute at Howard University commencement, protests in Gaza over U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a spokeless Ferris wheel, shooting at Sante Fe High School in Texas and more images from around the world.

At the Harvard University Commencement ceremonies on June 9, Dorinda Joy Carter presented the Graduate English Address.

Carter, who received her Ed.D. later in the day, is believed to be the first HGSE student to speak at the University Commencement since Brock Putnam, Ed.M., in 1987.

Ten to Receive Honorary Degrees Harvard Gazette, 5/28/15 Professor Emerita Patricia Albjerg Graham received an honorary doctor of laws degree at Harvard University Commencement.

«We are the perfect place for Georgia State University Commencement Ceremony guests to stay.

The Chicago Highlanders have performed at the United Center, Arlington Racecourse, university commencement ceremonies, weddings, funerals, golf tournaments, and various charity and fundraiser events.

• Oversaw all University commencement coordination, managed all volunteer staff, assigned workflow assignments, oversaw name badge assignments, and provided informational day event staff coordination.

Not exact matches

The founder and CEO of mobile app Snapchat spoke at the University of Southern California Marshall undergraduate commencement ceremony.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.

On receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, Rowling gave a heartfelt commencement speech titled «The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination».

«If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,» Jobs said during a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.

Social entrepreneur Melinda Gates spoke about the importance of making ethical choices and leaving a mark on humanity during her 2013 commencement speech at Duke University.

In 2014, Jim Carrey delivered a commencement address to Maharishi University of Management in Iowa that people still talk about to this day.

Sheryl Sandberg spoke publicly about her husband's death for the first time at the University of California at Berkeley Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 14, 2016.

Related: Sheryl Sandberg Commencement Speech, University of California at Berkeley, May 2016 (Transcript)

In a tech - driven world, the development of communication technology has influenced the «Net Generation» (a.k.a. people born between 1982 and 1991), bringing them into a world where the possibilities come with immense responsibility, Steve Blank told graduates of Dalhousie University during his commencement speech earlier this week.

Earlier, speaking at Bridgewater State University's commencement on May 14, she mentioned her ongoing feud with Trump.

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the graduation speech at Stanford University, and delivered one of the best commencement addresses of all time.

Again, as he said last week at his commencement speech at Howard University, he had no expectations that his election would signal a post racial society.

The former «Colbert Report» host delivered a humorous and heartfelt commencement address Monday at Wake Forest University.

Apple's CEO gave the commencement address at George Washington University, invoking the importance of values, changing the world, and Steve Jobs.

All that stuff about planning, throw that out,» said Eric Schmidt, former CEO and current executive chairman of Google, in a commencement address at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.

For instance, while Page was working for Trump, in July 2016, he traveled to Moscow to give a commencement speech at a Russian university, which certainly would have raised some red flags at the bureau.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear a commencement speaker.

And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.

At the 1961 commencement at Lincoln University, he put it this way:

In a commencement speech, Admiral William McRaven provoked graduates from the University of Texas with this exhortation: «If every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people, and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in six generations this class will have changed the lives of the entire population of the world, eight billion people.»

In a move that surprised some, former President Jimmy Carter was announced as the keynote speaker for Liberty University's upcoming commencement ceremony.

Boehner avoided the issue in his recent commencement address at Catholic University, but Rep. Ryan tackled it head on in an April 29 letter to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In 2008, Dolan took on Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi for their views on abortion, and in 2009, he criticized the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Obama to speak at its commencement.

During last year's commencement exercises at the University of Virginia, every graduate received a fancy compendium of excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's most notable writings, including the Declaration of Independence and the famous Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Reservations for a commencement - week prayer breakfast at Howard University were cut off, at 500.

Destiny Obeys Her Own Rhythm Christopher Lasch is waging a grim battle with cancer, but he was able to deliver the commencement address at the University of Rochester some months ago.

In the same release, Jimmy Carter said: «I am pleased to speak at Liberty University's Commencement.

This past weekend, President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at Rutgers University.

Washington (CNN)-- Liberty University students and alumni are accusing the Christian school of violating its own teachings by asking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints whose adherents are called Mormons, to deliver its 2012 commencement address.

«Delivering the commencement address at Stanford University, that's what I'm nervous about,» Brown shared during a conversation with Entertainment Tonight.

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In hope of relief from the deluge of commencement bullfeathers, I turned to the famously conservative novelist Tom Wolfe, who spoke at Duke University.

If, as the national media has reported, some Liberty University students absent themselves from their graduation ceremony tomorrow morning in protest of the school's choice of a Mormon commencement speaker, their absence isn't likely to be noticed.

Every year at Liberty University at least some students, as do students at commencement ceremonies everywhere, express disagreement with the school's choice of speaker, but never has their discontentment been so amplified by both national media coverage and the power of social networking.

We saw a clear example of this back in 2010 when Liberty University invited Glen Beck to speak at its commencement.