The Rockefeller University » Convocation for Conferring Degrees 2024

Thursday, The Sixth of June, 2024

2:30 PM

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Convocation for Conferring Degrees

Presentation of Graduating Students

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Presentation of Honorary Degrees

Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry;
Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, California Institute of Technology

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science;
Director, Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, University of Pennsylvania

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Ceremony

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Photographs by Matthew Septimus Photography.

Awards

Albert Lasker Award

HHMI Investigator

National Academy of Sciences

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