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Boston University President Melissa Gilliam speaks at 152nd Commencement
University President Melissa Gilliam, leading BU’s 152nd Commencement, and her first, tells the Class of 2025: “go out into the world, confident that you have the tools to pursue excellence”
Read more here - [...]https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/bu-commencement-2025/
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Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton Encourages Students in 2025 Baccalaureate Address
Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton, a BU trustee and resident bishop of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, touched on the need for new voices to speak up and confront the challenges before them.
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Empathy Is Essential, BU Commencement Speaker Emily Deschanel Tells 2025 Graduates
Over a three-decade acting career, Boston University alum Emily Deschanel has played a serial killer, a heroin addict, an ex-con, a lawyer, a doctor, a CEO, and wives of equally numerous fictive husbands. But she’d never played a graduation speaker [...]until Sunday, May 18, she told the thousands attending the 152nd All-University Commencement, calling BU “the greatest school on God’s green earth.”
Read more here - https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/bu-commencement-2025/
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David Zaslav Tells BU Graduates to Pursue Their Passion
Video roundup of BU’s 150th Commencement, including controversy over speaker David Zaslav’s (LAW’85) role in the Hollywood writers strike.
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Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21): 2021 BU Commencement Student Speaker
Student speaker Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21) mixed humorous glimpses of campus life with a list of social injustices that have dominated the headlines of the past four years in her address to the Class of 2021 at Boston University's 148th [...]Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021.
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Ayanna Pressley (Hon.’21): 2021 BU Commencement Speaker
US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) (Hon.’21), delivers the undergraduate commencement address to the Class of 2021 at Boston University's 148th Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021.
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Noubar Afeyan (Hon.’21): 2021 BU Commencement Speaker
Moderna cofounder Noubar Afeyan (Hon.’21), delivers the commencement address to the Class of 2021 graduate students at Boston University's 148th Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021.
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Catherine D’Amato (Hon.’21): 2021 Baccalaureate Address
Greater Boston Food Bank CEO Catherine D’Amato delivers the Baccalaureate address to the Class of 2021 at Marsh Chapel during Boston University's 148th Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021.
Read full coverage of the 2021 Baccalaureate service [...]on BU Today: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/bu-commencement-2021-baccalaureate-service/
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Student Speaker Adia Turner (CAS’19)
Student speaker Adia Turner (CAS’19) addresses the Class of 2019 at Boston University's 146th All-University Commencement.
Read the full story about the 2019 BU Commencement on BU Today: [...]https://www.bu.edu/today/2019/bu-commencement-marcia-mcnutt/
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