Winter Commencement 2009

Actor, playwright, songwriter and Michigan native Jeff Daniels will receive an honorary degree and will deliver the address at Winter Commencement. Also receiving honorary degrees are journalist Helen Thomas, a Detroit native who has served the White House press corps during 10 presidencies; Grace Lee Boggs, a labor and civil rights activist, writer and speaker from Detroit, who has been engaged in various social and political movements for more than six decades; and Edward Osborne Wilson, entomologist and biological theorist whose research on ants has led to an understanding of social behavior and interdependence.

University Graduate Exercises 2010

The speaker for University Graduate Exercises will be announced in late March.

Spring Commencement 2010

The speaker for Spring Commencement will be announced in late March.