As is Boston University's tradition, the names of the Commencement Speaker and honored guests were announced on May 1 during the annual Senior Breakfast.
Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation, will deliver the main Commencement address. Nancy G. Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, will speak at the Baccalaureate Service. Others who will receive honorary degrees are: Patricia Meyer Spacks, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the inventor of the Segway Human Transporter and President of DEKA Research and Development Corporation, Dean Kamen; Frederick S. Pardee, philanthropist and benefactor of the University's Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; and Boston University President Emeritus and MED Dean Emeritus Aram Chobanian.
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