Brown to Bestow Honorary Degrees to Jack Nicholson, Arianna Huffington, and eight others
Thursday, April 28, 2011
A who's who of culture will be at Brown to receive honorary degrees this year. From Jack Nicholson to Arianna Huffington to Nicholas Kristoff will be honored with degrees on Sunday, May 29 at Brown.
Here who is being recognized:
Katie King Crowley, a 1997 Brown graduate, three-time Olympic medalist in women’s ice hockey, and Team USA’s all-time leading scorer in Olympic competition
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTArianna Huffington, author, radio host, and creator of The Huffington Post, one of the most widely read news and opinion sites on the Internet
Nicholas D. Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columnist for the New York Times
David B. Mumford, professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown and recipient of the 2011 National Medal of Science
Jack Nicholson, three-time Academy Award-winning actor and most frequently Oscar-nominated male actor
Lynn Ida Nottage, a 1986 Brown graduate, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Guggenheim Fellow, and MacArthur Award recipient
Lisa Randall, cosmologist, particle physicist, author, lecturer, and opera librettist
Kenneth Roth, a 1977 Brown graduate, human rights activist, author, federal prosecutor, and executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993
David R. Scott, fighter pilot, test pilot, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, NASA executive, and consultant
Zhenkai Zhao (Bei Dao), poet, writer, dissident, and editor of literary magazines
Honorary degrees are awarded by the University’s Board of Fellows and are conferred by the University president — in English and in Latin — during Commencement exercises on the College Green.
According to Brown, none of the recipients will speak at the Commencement ceremony; that honor has been reserved since the University’s earliest days for two members of the graduating senior class. Many of the honorands will, however, participate in Commencement forums and other public presentations during Commencement Weekend:
-Kenneth Roth will deliver the 2011 Baccalaureate address to the graduating class at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 28, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
-Nicholas Kristof will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs.
-David Mumford will participate in a panel discussion about Brown’s new Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.
-Lynn Nottage will discuss her work and American theater at a Commencement Forum.
-David Scott will present a Commencement Forum.
Information about times and places for these and other Commencement presentations will be available from the Office of Media Relations and on the University’s 2011 Commencement webpage.
For bios on each of the recipients, visit http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2011/04/honoraries.
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