Seven distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees at commencement in May, President Richard Brodhead announced Wednesday.
Recipients include John Chambers, the chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems who will speak at commencement; Rita Dove, an author and former U.S. poet laureate; James Hunt, former governor of North Carolina and an advocatae for public education; Alan Page, an NFL Hall of Fame member, judge and education activist; Lisa Randall, a professor of theoretical physics and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology; Eric Shinseki, secretary if the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Graduate ’76; and Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National University of Singapore.
“I’m delighted that these distinguished individuals will be joining our graduates for their commencement,” Brodhead said in a Duke news release yesterday. “In the range of their accomplishments, they give an inspiring example of the great lives that men and women can give to the world. They will send our students off with the message: Now it’s your turn to live up to your highest potential.”
Commencement exercises will take place in Wallace Wade Stadium at 10 a.m. May 15.
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